MG5 2022 - Is a minimum battery percentage needed to balance charge?

[Paul Walker]

Hi,

Octopus Intelligent gives 6 hrs of 10p per KW and to do my balance charge I use my granny charger rather than a Ohme Home Pro. (Recommended by MG service team.) To reduce the cost and time charging to 100% and equalising, i‘m thinking of charging the car to 70% using my 7KW feed and then switching to the granny over night. But. . . will the car still do an equalisation charge if the granny starts charging at 70%?

Thanks so much.
Paul

 

[drmcw]

Equalisation only happens at 100% so state of charge when the charging starts is irrelevant.

[Edit} The one issue you'll probably have is not getting to 100% in 6 hours. Just use the "proper" charger!

 

[Alb]

Is the Ohme incapable of charging to 100% then?

 

[Paul Walker]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll go with the 7KW feeder then!

 

[Jomarkh]

When the charge reaches 100% the charge rate drops to 300W while the car performs the battery balance. How much rapid charging you do will vary how long the balance takes.

 

[jackois]

Is the Ohme incapable of charging to 100% then?

Mine certainly is... and my understanding is that should it reach 100% before 04.30, it should balance the battery using the Ohme as well...

 

[Paul Walker]

Thanks all. BC done on Ohme last night. Much simpler!