brightncheerful wrote:Octavia lets me to select a percentage of the charge to keep in reserve. Presumably for when I have almost run out of petrol and can drive to my destination on the charge available?
Doesn't the battery also fill in for the engine if more power is needed? If so best to keep a small amount for if you find yourself struggling past Mr Stobart.
First, how best to park the car to allow for length of cable. Just about able to connect cable to car and plug to wall socket with charger suspended, not ideal. Second, find out how to unlock flap over car end. Unlock car, flap click manual. Lock car, flap does not close of its own accord. Remember o check that flap is closed after finishing charging.
Third, Work out how to attach and detach cable end to car. After trying to detach cable end from car, discover that I have to unlock car to detach cable.
Fourth, both ends connected, switch on wall plug. What do the lights mean? Ah ha, initial check charger is working. Fading green light charging in progress.
You missed out "Second, rtfm"
heavy rain descends. Run to garage to switch off the electricity for charger, unplug cable from car.
I would have thought the connection at the car end was waterproof?
At 17:50 discover only 25 minutes to go. Mrs Bnc says i can take puppy into garden. (off lead too risky, she would probably bite one or both of us when she comes in again
Just to clarify the above, your puppy is a female, isn't it?
Next day, drive to destination circa 8 miles on electric. Battery lasts the journey both ways. This morning take puppy for a walk on the hills, electric power one way. Empty for the return.
Surely returning with an empty puppy is the purpose of the walk
Dread to think how much electricity units consumed: next time will read the meter before charging.
Need to get an external waterproof socket fitted on the outside of garage so that I don't have to leave the garage door open and the charger isn't suspended. Wonder what could/would happen if when left to charge overnight (economy 7) it rained.
From what I read (apart from the potentially vampiric tendencies of MrsBnC) your issue is getting the charge from the garage to the car avoiding dangling the charger from the wall socket?
Whist there will be numerous warnings about not using an extension lead, could you get a short 13A lead that would run from the wall socket to the garage door and plug the charger in there. This is how we run the washing machine in the garage, which warns against using an extension lead as it draws just over 2kW at peak, but the unwound extension I use is rated above that and doesn't get warm. Alternatively get another socket in the garage nearer the door rather than outside?
Please keep up the updates - interesting to read real world user reports.
Paul