Ingineer
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The Email Ecotality sent out is titled "Look Out for the New Blink Software!". How appropriate! =)
2.0 seems to have even more bugs than the old 1.8!
-Phil
2.0 seems to have even more bugs than the old 1.8!
-Phil
SanDust said:It would be great if the new version stopped the public chargers from going into an endless loop, effectively taking themselves offline until they are reset. Seems like at any given time 30% of the chargers are in this state. Since Blink wants to start charging you'd think eliminating this problem would be high on the list of things to fix.
+1SanDust said:It would be great if the new version stopped the public chargers from going into an endless loop, effectively taking themselves offline until they are reset. Seems like at any given time 30% of the chargers are in this state. Since Blink wants to start charging you'd think eliminating this problem would be high on the list of things to fix.
You're correct - 1.8 didn't have a "kWh" display, only a "charge time" display - the only way to see the kWh was via the blinknetwork site.linkim said:What I noticed is that the display showed the amount of energy passed (12.2 kWh), which was about the same as what showed up on my Blink internet site (12.15 kWh). I don't recall seeing an energy display on the Blink screen with 1.8. Or am I just not observant?
Once the car is unplugged, the Blink requires a car be swiped again to restart charging.garygid said:With the typical Blink-in-Public EVSE:
Could one unplug it from a paying customer's charging car,
plug it into a different car, and "continue" to charge ...
billing the first guy's account, no Blinking card needed?
Further, in those AB475 "specially marked" parking spaces,
to add major injury to minor injury, have the first car ...
towed away for being unplugged?
When you disconnect it may stop "charging" in the electrical sense but I don't think it will stop "charging" in the monetary sense. Every time I use a public Blink I get notifications on my smartphone: charging, plugged, unplugged. This is great. But for hours afterwards I continue to get notifications, e.g. that my car is once again charging at Ikea, which is by then miles distant from my car. So I think they continue to associate all charging events with the same card that originally activated the unit for quite some time after unplugging, which does not give me confidence that I would be correctly billed for use of the unit. Maybe it's an easy bug to fix. I'm hoping that firmware 2.0 delivers the fix, and that it makes the public units more reliable.garygid said:OK, Blink needs a card swipe to start a new session?
No swipe needed to END a session?
Why was "walterbays", 5 posts above, asking for a session timeout after unplugging?
From what you say, the session timeout is immediate upon unplugging, right?
They used to display kwh and removed it in 1.8? I was going to start a thread on "desired display items for the Blink", and list kwh. I can't believe it's got an internal energy meter and it doesn't tell you how much kwh you used in you last charge or your current usage while you're charging.ahagge said:You're correct - 1.8 didn't have a "kWh" display, only a "charge time" display - the only way to see the kWh was via the blinknetwork site.linkim said:What I noticed is that the display showed the amount of energy passed (12.2 kWh), which was about the same as what showed up on my Blink internet site (12.15 kWh). I don't recall seeing an energy display on the Blink screen with 1.8. Or am I just not observant?
That's one of the things I was hoping they'd add in 2.x. Now I just have to keep waiting for it...
I think there's some confusion here regarding what and where. The Blink has an accumulated kWh display, but it's not on the Main screen. It's also not on the "Your Last Charge" display. It's on the Stats screen. And, it's cumulative, so if you want to know how much this charge used, you have to know what it read before you started. This is in 1.8 and in all the older versions.Splittinglanes said:They used to display kwh and removed it in 1.8?
garygid said:So, what is the proper way to "close" the monitary charging
session on a non-free Blink?
Swiping your card before unplugging doesn't do anything, however when you unplug the cable from the car the screen goes from "unplug at any time" to "swipe your card to begin."garygid said:So, what is the proper way to "close" the monitary charging
session on a non-free Blink?
It sounds like your are excatly describing the AV EVSE!I know it's a bit late for a Santa wish list (I'm willing to wait until next Christmas), but here it is for a BLINK 2.0:
- a unit That Just Works (TM)
- no touchscreen: why is there a touchscreen, what is it good for? When was the last time you had to calibrate a touchscreen (This is so last millennium)?
- no features, no gimmicks: what's the point of the timer function? My Leaf has already all the necessary brain and knows exactly how to charge it's own battery whenever I tell it to. Having a timer on both sides could lead to deadlocks (i.e. no charging at all).
- small, compact, unobtrusive unit which blends perfectly in. Not an huge, bulky, in your face box (Look at the Tesla charger, ok it comes with a premium but I'm ok if it's a tad bigger)
All these would also considerably reduce development, production and transportation costs and we, the alpha testers, would be instantly gratified. How does that sound?
Me too. But it has been reasonably reliable for me on 1.8, with just an occasional power fault, so I'm not rocking the boat.drees said:Anyone else still waiting for 2.0 to be pushed to their Blink? I got the email ages ago and it still hasn't upgraded...
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