Battery balancing. No

[Joningy]

How do other MGs handle it? Some EVs do it when they see an imbalance between cells, some do it on a schedule.

It appears its a tad trial and error, I managed my first Equalisation last week at the second attempt, details on my thread "Battery Equalisation/Balancing MGS5 second attempt"

But basically I used the iSmart app, I'm on Intelligent Octopus GO, so cheap energy between 11.30pm to 05.30am, I set it to start at 11.30pm and run for 12 hours, so the majority of the charge was carried out at off peak rate, I regularly monitored the last hour or so in several ways, through the iSmart app, on my Octopus Energy app and my solar inverter app, all of which gave a view of what was happening and the current being drawn, from the moment 100% was reached, the current draw gradually reduced over approx. 30 minutes to carry out the balancing or equalisation, which probably indicates it wasn't so far out of kilta anyway.

 

[Lovemyev]

On our previous ZS EV in the charging section ( in the head unit ) under the settings for delayed charging times.
I do remember seeing a slide button, that when selected, it would allow the car to continue charging AFTER the selected off peak rate had ended.
Saved messing about with your normal off peak times I guess.
Just slide the button when you wanted to carry out a balance cycle, then flick it back when your done !.
Not sure if the S5 has this feature though .

 

[anth5864]

On our previous ZS EV in the charging section ( in the head unit ) under the settings for delayed charging times.
I do remember seeing a slide button, that when selected, it would allow the car to continue charging AFTER the selected off peak rate had ended.
Saved messing about with your normal off peak times I guess.
Just slide the button when you wanted to carry out a balance cycle, then flick it back when your done !.
Not sure if the S5 has this feature though .

Yes it does, 'charge to set %' or something along those lines. Keeps going outside of time range

It's in the battery page. That would keep it going