ttweed said:
The terminology is a little confusing and it seems to have a lot more info than necessary--why have "Plug-in Events," "Charge Events," as well as "Power Events?"
Well, I get most of that. I plug-in well ahead of the charge, so it's good that they log each status change item. If there's a plug in event but no charge, then that's good to know, from a diagnostic point of view. The power flow events are interesting, if you click on the "power flow" link--it shows how, through the charge time, the LEAF/Blink are going through multiple smaller charge cycles to manage the battery. Neat--and I'm glad they didn't clutter the main listing any more by having all that detail within it, but rather linked to it.
ttweed said:
Then there are "Power Flow" tables for events where no power flowed??? What's the point? Do we really need all that? All I really want to know is when the electricity when into the car and how much.
Maybe we don't need that, but I think that's an artifact of how plugin works with the car managing the charge time. When I plug in, the Blink goes to "charging" for a second or two, then turns off. I think those zero-flows are for that. It would be good if you could filter those out.
ttweed said:
All my data seems to be on Eastern time as well (3 hours later). Can I change that? Is that one of the "time reporting issues" Blink support talked about?
That would be an improvement. 100% of my charges have started at midnight; here's what the Blink network reports, and why I have an active trouble ticket open with them:
1:02 AM, 2:38 AM, 8:46 PM, 1:05 AM, 9:46 PM, 12:03 AM, 12:04 AM, 8:41 PM, 8:33 PM, 11:19 PM