Recent content by Martinonline

I had no trouble with a 150kW BP charger in Hemel Hempstead last year using a credit card but did with the 7kW EVSE at the hotel I was staying in when I tried to use my BP account.

I agree that SC077 has wider implications than just for LKA. Has anyone noticed a difference in FCA? My normal supermarket run has the car needing to weave around parked cars. Prior to SC077 with FCA set to medium I received a warning beep as I weaved. Now nothing even when FCA set to high...

I entered this discussion again to provide evidence to support @Corindikev's post that the reduction in power to ~4 kW was after the set battery level was reached and the battery was balancing and it was not due to the battery level exceeding 90% as @aleks57 posted. And not to continue a...

I do not disagree with your statement about doing a full equalisation is what is recommended in the manual. And that it leads to the most accurate battery capacity and range prediction. However in my MG4 manual the word 'calibration' never appears in relation to the HV battery only the word...

And so the discussion continues. If only there were an MG authority posting here. In the absence we must look at what recorded evidence there is and to separate BMS activities, managing charging power leading up to balancing and the balancing activity itself. @akeks57, please see the two images...

I think the operative word is 'should'. There are a number of reports in the forum about the failure of the car to charge the 12V battery, including my post last year.

Yes the lights would have caused the drain. The car does not switch off the lights automatically unless you are in auto.

I see that there are 2 ways to access a poster's details, via the header of the post and via the avatar to the left of the post. (Note that with mobile phones this avatar is only visible with the phone in landscape mode.) I will amend my location details to make them similar to @siteguru's who...

@Data, I do not think this thread is in the ZS Forum but rather it appears to me to be in the General Chat Forum. I note that the Similar Threads list at the bottom of the page does have a majority of ZS links. I am confused by the first sentence of your second paragraph. Are you referring to...

As you can see from my profile I am driving an MG4 Trophy with an NMC battery. I do not believe this discussion is limited to ZS owners so it may be that your understanding is limited to your car and mine is limited to my car. I would have thought that if my BMS is wildly out of calibration...

@Data, you have stated that you have been told that to achieve a proper balance you need to have seen the low battery warning so that the BMS can control the charging and then take to 100%. You quote 20% as the trigger for the warning. My Trophy has been down to below 10% in the past but I have...

As I have posted before, see image below:

I believe that @Corindikev has found the problem. He says the breaker should be rated at 40Amps. I've just looked at my installation and it has a 40Amp RCBO.

Please explain which parts of the breaker have burnt. The outside terminals, the breaker contacts or the internal electronics? Is the breaker situated where its heat can be released and thus the breaker cooled? A breaker's performance is deleteriously affected by temperature. When you get an...

@Sparky2, I have no knowledge of BMWs and Audis, coming from a 20 year old fiesta and rear-engined Skoda Estelle except that they are a lot more expensive than the MG.I can tell you that my Trophy works as it was designed to its specific cost. I would assume that paying more money for the German...