Levenkay
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The recent demise of my garage's Blink EVSE has thrown me back to using my (now upgraded) Panasonic EVSE on 120V for charging my LEAF, and I'm having some rather perplexing results with it; so perplexing that I must be missing something obvious. I should also mention that the incident in which the Blink failed catastrophically also ruined the LEAF's on-board charger, which had to be replaced. When I first got the LEAF back from the repair shop, I plugged it in via the portable EVSE, and was mildly surprised to notice that it began charging immediately. I figured that the charging timers must have gotten turned off during the repair, and intended to interrupt the charge manually after a few hours. Naturally, I forgot to stop the charge, so by the next morning, the car was indeed at 100%. And, sure enough, the timers were all OFF.
OK, that much is understandable, and I set the charge schedule to Timer1: no start time, end time 5:00 AM) for each day of the week, and a "stop at 80%" charging goal. With these settings in effect, I plugged the portable EVSE back into the car at around 15:30 this afternoon, and again the charging began immediately. The car was only about four or five bars below an 80%, and it seemed a little odd to me that the car would figure it had to start charging so early. It's been over a year since I've charged on 120V, so I shrugged it off. Just now, though (about 22:40), I went out into the garage, and saw that the car's three blue charge-status LEDs were all steadily lit in the "I just finished charging" display configuration. I put the car in "accessory on" mode and saw that the car had respected *part* of the timer setting: it had at least stopped charging at 80%. But it finished charging about seven hours too early. Whatever could be up with that???
OK, that much is understandable, and I set the charge schedule to Timer1: no start time, end time 5:00 AM) for each day of the week, and a "stop at 80%" charging goal. With these settings in effect, I plugged the portable EVSE back into the car at around 15:30 this afternoon, and again the charging began immediately. The car was only about four or five bars below an 80%, and it seemed a little odd to me that the car would figure it had to start charging so early. It's been over a year since I've charged on 120V, so I shrugged it off. Just now, though (about 22:40), I went out into the garage, and saw that the car's three blue charge-status LEDs were all steadily lit in the "I just finished charging" display configuration. I put the car in "accessory on" mode and saw that the car had respected *part* of the timer setting: it had at least stopped charging at 80%. But it finished charging about seven hours too early. Whatever could be up with that???