MG5 SR charging display state order.

[Jomarkh]

I thought I would use the 'granny' to see the different charge states the car displays.
At 97% car is 'in charging'.
At 100% car has 'finished' charging but not turned off the EVSE so 'not' balanced.
When the car is balanced it shows 100% connected 'uncharged' and turns off the EVSE.
The car was unlocked for this but if you open the door the display comes on.

 

[smokie]

Interesting pics because as I sat in the sun today I was thinking whether I ought to stick the car on the granny to use solar excess ( - I don't have loads of spare as I only have about 4kW of panels, so on the granny it may stay within spare capacity). Your pics sort of confirm a figure I thought I'd seen, that it would charge less than 10 (I recall from somewhere about 7 mph).

I can see from the IHD when I am importing and exporting but have no way at the moment of turning a switch on and off accordingly. With being on the 5p Go Faster (20:30) rate I wouldn't really want to risk putting too much in at standard daily rates, though I can manually switch the socket remotely through my Home Assistant - could do it automatically if I had real time data, but I am not about to spend loads to enable that.

I suppose with the Home Assistant I could avoid temporary blips by, for instance, automatically turning off the plug when the kettle goes on, and turning the plug off at maybe 5pm when even on a good day production slows. I do have a light sensor so I can also turn it off it it goes suddenly rather dark but that doesn't help if someone turns on the oven. Food for thought...

 

[Ozzie1989]

I thought I would use the 'granny' to see the different charge states the car displays.
At 97% car is 'in charging'.
At 100% car has 'finished' charging but not turned off the EVSE so 'not' balanced.
When the car is balanced it shows 100% connected 'uncharged' and turns off the EVSE.
The car was unlocked for this but if you open the door the display comes on.

Thanks, very useful

 

[Alb]

"Uncharged" used as a description for 100% charged and balanced.....
No room for confusion there then

 

[MikeW]

I thought I would use the 'granny' to see the different charge states the car displays.
At 97% car is 'in charging'.
At 100% car has 'finished' charging but not turned off the EVSE so 'not' balanced.
When the car is balanced it shows 100% connected 'uncharged' and turns off the EVSE.
The car was unlocked for this but if you open the door the display comes on.

Thanks for this.

 

[biffo]

No sunroof on my LR

 

[Jomarkh]

So you don't get a picture on the display of a black car then.
I didn’t realise I had roof bars either
I suppose it has to display 'uncharged' as at that point it has turned of the EVSE.

 

[Ozzie1989]

No sunroof on my LR

Haha, wondering if it's different software versions or something? Strange though, you'd think the picture would be the same regardless.