Chris H
Established Member
I use intelligent Octopus Go for my charging, with a Zappi charger.
The way it works is that you tell Octopus what charger you have and what car you have when setting it up.
To charge, you can plug in any time of day and you say you want it to add X% charge by a certain time, and Octopus schedule the charging and whatever time of day they schedule the charging to take place (usually overnight, but not always) they charge 7p/kWh. All great.
I had an MG ZS SR and the charging was spot-on every time. If the battery had 40% left I could set Octopus to add, say, 50% by 8:30 am and I'd get in the car in the morning and it would be at exactly 90% charge. Great.
I now have an MGS5 LR and reconfigured IOG for the new car and it charges every time, but is always around 5% short. So if it's at 40% I might set IOG to add 50% and when it has finished it will be 85%, not 90%. If I set it to add 20% it will add about 15% etc. All a bit strange because the configuration looks right, it's set up for a 64Kwh battery.
It's not a big problem, I can always add an extra 5% to the amount to add but I'm interested to find out anyone else had this, or if anyone can speculate as to what might cause it.
The way it works is that you tell Octopus what charger you have and what car you have when setting it up.
To charge, you can plug in any time of day and you say you want it to add X% charge by a certain time, and Octopus schedule the charging and whatever time of day they schedule the charging to take place (usually overnight, but not always) they charge 7p/kWh. All great.
I had an MG ZS SR and the charging was spot-on every time. If the battery had 40% left I could set Octopus to add, say, 50% by 8:30 am and I'd get in the car in the morning and it would be at exactly 90% charge. Great.
I now have an MGS5 LR and reconfigured IOG for the new car and it charges every time, but is always around 5% short. So if it's at 40% I might set IOG to add 50% and when it has finished it will be 85%, not 90%. If I set it to add 20% it will add about 15% etc. All a bit strange because the configuration looks right, it's set up for a 64Kwh battery.
It's not a big problem, I can always add an extra 5% to the amount to add but I'm interested to find out anyone else had this, or if anyone can speculate as to what might cause it.
