Content by decrep in September, 2025

Just a random thought, would upgrading the rear springs somehow help?

Did you ever surf Raglan?? I've been there twice, but didn't have a board both times.

works OK for me.

So now we need to learn how to tell if an appliance needs an earth to be safe, or if it's double insulated. I think you can assume if it only has a 2 pin plug it's OK. (Do you get them in GT Britain)? I'd probably be happy if there was nothing conductive that you could come in contact with.

Mrs D tries to do it before it happens, then I ignore her, (most of the time)

Good enough for me @EVentropy, I don't need the fine details, I can see the sense of using a cap to transfer from high to low.

Yes, the trouble with making decisions is they are often wrong. This is why there is so many Govt stuff ups. This universe seems very fluid. Even a quantum particle can't make up it's mind what it is until you look at it. Then there's the other problem of too much empathy, I can easily see...

Totally not! I have good electrical knowledge and I understand the problem now it has been explained fully, but I probably would have plugged the wrong thing in. There should be a warning somewhere, but where? On the plug I guess but there are lots of manufacturers from different countries...

I have a very comfortable "fence". I'm perfectly happy not making my mind up about anything, unless there's an absolute need for a decision. ( which is mainly guess work). This universe is just too complicated, with too many perspectives. I'm still trying to figure out what/who I am.

That was one of my thoughts, or the guy at the typewriter, just wrote what he thought? You'll notice the charging light sequence is also wrong.

That's OK Chum, what he says agrees 100% with what I see on my car. Don't tell me that different models do different things with the lights, as well as charging. BTW I'm perfectly calm, just stating what seems perfectly obvious from what I observe. However at my age you start to have self...

Seems like this was just an individuals take on it and not an "official" response, to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Yes, indeed, we are certainly blessed here.

Beautiful spring day here, so took a drive along the beach to give Dot's cold some fresh sea air. Stopped at Halls Head one of my 1960s Winter surf breaks, it needs a much bigger swell than we had today. looking East towards Mandurah Looking West towards Africa, (no you can't see it in the...

@Data Sounds like you know what you are doing, and not just quoting some UTube vid. So I have to accept there are differences, which is rather weird, but we're getting used to weird with MG

Maybe this is where some of the confusion is coming from.

I think the confusion comes from that generic site that says charge to 100%. True for LFP but not necessarily for NMC, depending on BMC and software. It's evident from the evidence, at least with the MG4 NMC that balancing will occur at any set level But does that still leave the question of...

Well I guess as well as mad, we are also revolting.

My bad, it's only 200km from Mandurah to Margaret River, not the 300 I thought.

So it's the NMC battery, at the moment there's another thread about this. https://www.mgevs.com/threads/equalisation-charge-nmc-battery.23171/ What I can gather from this is that you can balance from a "standard charge" IE set in health mode to 80% max, but it has to be done at a rate of 11kW...

Are you sure you're not mixing up calibration and equalisation? They are very separate things, calibration is for the GOM to work out where the state of charge is. Certainly the LFP batteries a calibration requires a continuous charge from under 10% to 100%. An equalisation charge can start...

What is your model? There's a difference between the 51kWh models and the rest. The 51 has to go to 100% and left until charging until the car says it's finished charging, don't stop charging because it's hit 100% The other models with NMC batteries, apparently can balance when they reach set to...

@Susanna was it the cheese section that offended you? I didn't really find it that funny, but it certainly didn't offend me.

OK, I won't attempt it in the 51, you've convinced me! I can't imagine doing that trip around 70 km/h. You'd have to be finding places to pull over to let the road trains through.

It's possible they are, but he said the Tesla is supposed to have a 600km range, so maybe he was just topping it up when it hit 50%?

why not charge to 100%? That's what I'd be doing. And we easily made the trip to Margaret River that's around 300km

I know I've used it, but was that to correct a problem or just be on the safe side while we parked it at the airport for a few weeks????? I have a feeling it was at the airport, but this old brain can never be sure about things several months old.

I just spoke to some Tesla people that had driven across the Nullabor. They said there's DC chargers about every 300km, so our 51kWh should make it OK as long as we don't go too fast against a strong head wind.

I guess the morale to this is, "try it first before posting". I used to think locking and unlocking is a necessary step, but it certainly isn't, not with my MG4 anyway. So the advice that says so is either misinformation or applies to some other car/software version?

I guess the programmer doing it, sets default to their personal preference.

It won't go on at 100%! It needs room in the battery for the regen charge. If not in OPD it will slowly increase the regen level as the battery discharges. We assume OPD uses a regen level about 3, so unless there's enough room in the battery for that level you can't select it. Maybe the S5...

I think it's the long holidays we get, even city dwellers that would only go low distances normally, like to get away to distant holiday destinations. Our country roads get very busy at these times. If a large number of people had to stop half way to recharge at 1 or 2 charge points, there'd be...

You have to be mad to stay sane!!! And there are quite a few very sane people here

It's fine in the city. but here in WA most rural areas are poorly served by public chargers. Just not enough EV owners here yet, but it's increasing rapidly. Driving out of this Sate, involves overnight stays, depending if you don't want to drive after dark, and hitting stray animals, and which...

Gave the Kelpie an eye. Now it doesn't intimidate me from my desktop.

Keep a magnet out side the door, to test everything that enters first???

That's a bit cheesy

Bugger just noticed I didn't scroll across and left some wires on the right had side. I'm using it as my desktop wallpaper at the moment, and the black eye has a sinister look, maybe I'll colour it in, what do you think?

Our MG4 standard range will do 300km with ease. We absolutely love it, but have lane keep assist turned off, and don't use adaptive cruse control. The software improves with latest firmware, the early stuff was a bit "clunky" Yes this is a great friendly forum. But if it came to exchanging...

Well we are all different. I don't understand what you mean by "artificial". I guess you mean it's not like what you are used to in an ICE vehicle. If you like what's different, it certainly doesn't feel "artificial". It's just a new challenge to master and get the benefits of. I can see a...

Funny signs, graffiti

followed a black 4 from Falcon to Pinjarrah RD, where I passed it in the other lane. Could wave while passing, but when we pulled up at the lights, I stuck my hand out of the window and waved. Got a wave back through their windscreen.

@Archev I just realised, you're either staying up late or getting up early. My calculations say it was either 1am or 2am, depending on daylight saving. I guess with daylight saving at close to equinox, your sun doesn't

Isn't it obvious, BATTERIES!!!!!

I used to look after X-Ray machines last century, but only got as far as Cat Scans. MRI was in a different league.

Well here's my attempt to rectify that, No pylon now, just some smudge, I'm way out of practice. (Almost forgot the reflection)

Oh joy, does sound like fun. Did you ever have an incident, with ferrous metal getting too close to the machine? Fantastic picture, I might have a go at removing the power transmission tower, that sort of detracts from it. Glad you had a meet up!!!

Couldn't come quick enough for me. Too many great things to do beside work.

Not in my case anyway. I can take or leave creep it doesn't worry me. I don't think there's much difference in the level of regen either. What I love about OPD is how smooth the drive is with it, apart from the take off, where there is a slight jerk as the brake comes off and you start moving...

Sooooo many different shades of white

looks like illegal yellow to me.

Sorry guys, can't make it, but I'll be expecting a report and pics, even if it's pelting down!

Doesn't do it if you are in OPD, but then you have to get used to the creep when fully charged

Wish I could join you, would love a ride on the wheel.

Appears not to have leaf springs, so probably a later model. Yep much later 1956 And the record breaking trip was in 2011. No EV chargers back then, he must have just used standard GPOs

I have a thick plank fixed to the floor, when the rear wheels touch it I stop and briefly put it in N so that any tension in the tyres is released.

No that's the cover for the leaf springs, I guess that's what they mean by half elliptic.