MGS5 V2L Adaptor

[Robald1269]

Hi All,
I have a MGS5 SE LR and I am just wondering if anyone has purchased a vehicle to load adaptor as yet, if so which one did you purchase and has it been a success? Many thanks Rob

 

[FCat53]

Just getting one by Fyearfly about £30 , will come back in a couple of weeks and report.

 

[gus]

I had one from ebay for my ZS, about £9 which did what I needed from it including running a tumble drier, will try this weekend, down in Wales at the moment so I don’t have it with me, don’t have the tumble drier either.

 

[electric dream]

I bought an 8-metre V2L cable from Aliexpress and replaced the Euroland 4 gang socket it came with, with a13a 2-gang weatherproof RCD socket from Screwfix.

 

[gus]

I had one from ebay for my ZS, about £9 which did what I needed from it including running a tumble drier, will try this weekend, down in Wales at the moment so I don’t have it with me, don’t have the tumble drier either.

Just to confirm my V2L adapter from the ZS works just fine on the MGS5, ran the tumble drier just fine.

 

[TimothyN]

Has anyone else left the V2L adapter plugged in with no load, as I did yesterday?

It took about 3% out of the battery over the length of the day without anything plugged in.

Is that normal?

 

[5teep]

Has anyone else left the V2L adapter plugged in with no load, as I did yesterday?

It took about 3% out of the battery over the length of the day without anything plugged in.

Is that normal?

Depends on the adaptor maybe? They all have electronics in them that are powered by the car but I've assumed it would be a tiny current.

 

[TimothyN]

That was my assumption, but my calculation suggests not far short of a kW disappearing!

 

[Everest]

It's not that tiny. When using V2L, quite a bit of the vehicle's electronics will be switched on. Figures I found from someone who did tests on an Ioniq 5 showed a draw of around 250W. (I did that research to find out the round trip efficiency of using vehicle as a supplementary home energy storage battery).

Anyway, if the MG uses a similar quiescent usage, then it would equate to about 1kWh per 4 hours.

So it sounds like the MG is drawing a bit less than the Hyundai, depending on the length of your day, of course.

 

[GRM]

Hi All,
I have a MGS5 SE LR and I am just wondering if anyone has purchased a vehicle to load adaptor as yet, if so which one did you purchase and has it been a success? Many thanks Rob

Hi, I purchased one from TitanMG. Very simple car plug one end 3 pin uk socket the other. Only tested it for a few minutes on a big Hoover and it worked fine. I've only bought it as a house emergency back up, if required.

 

[TimothyN]

I bought the same one as @GRM (for pennies) and have used it extensively (it's doing my laundry as I write) and it seems fine. It's not something you can really score. It does what it says and it's cheap

 

[TimothyN]

By the way, I did draw satisfaction from the first one of these:

...so much of that is because of V2L! All my laundry and dishwasher, all my baking, all my office space heating (I have no radiator in my home office) from V2L.