Charging: car and charger settings

[Fish Fingers]

I just picked my car up this week and to my delight and amazement, when I plugged it into my new home charger the green light came on and it worked immediately. Very pleased.

So now to the question. I am just waiting to be switched onto Octopus Go and obviously will want the cheaper off peak charging.

When I look at the charger app, it recognises Octopus Go and allows you to set this up as a Smart option.

So do I just plug the car in and set this option on the charger and hope it all starts as planned 00:30 - 04.30?

Or should I use the car charging profiles instead?

Or both?

The charger is a Sync EV.

I can obviously try it once onto Octopus Go, but any help would be appreciated before I start the whole trial and error thing.

Thanks

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[W1NGE]

I just picked my car up this week and to my delight and amazement, when I plugged it into my new home charger the green light came on and it worked immediately. Very pleased.

So now to the question. I am just waiting to be switched onto Octopus Go and obviously will want the cheaper off peak charging.

When I look at the charger app, it recognises Octopus Go and allows you to set this up as a Smart option.

So do I just plug the car in and set this option on the charger and hope it all starts as planned 00:30 - 04.30?

Or should I use the car charging profiles instead?

Or both?

The charger is a Sync EV.

I can obviously try it once onto Octopus Go, but any help would be appreciated before I start the whole trial and error thing.

Thanks

Why aren't you using the charging unit you got with the car?

Profiles are location dependent and so you can set one for home. To control a specific end time / departure time you must use a timer in conjunction. This is well documented in this forum - have a read and read the manual.

Easier to use a single app (Porsche Connect App / My Porsche) than use something else unless you see perceived advantages?

Profiles and timers can be set in the car (they are duplicated / replicated to My Porsche and Porsche Connect App).

Sample departure daily timer (car doesn't need to be connected every day) with an associated profile for 85% charging within my off-peak / free electricity when at home (profile auto selects on geo coords automatically).

This should also work with your alternative charger - suggest not to set anything on it in case it conflicts - its a case of one or the other. Note the car always controls what happens and not the charging point.

 

[Fish Fingers]

Thanks for the reply.

The supplied charger is not really compatible with use at our house for a number of reasons.

So we did need to install one.

Had looked on the forum, but not seen this specific situation discussed.

 

[W1NGE]

Thanks for the reply.

The supplied charger is not really compatible with use at our house for a number of reasons.

So we did need to install one.

Had looked on the forum, but not seen this specific situation discussed.

Ok - try out the suggested profile and timer combination and see how you go.

General rule be careful not to mix and match timers / profiles / 3rd party charging point configurations - one or the other.

The 'departure timer' simply controls the cutoff time (it won't overrun) whereas with a profile the chances are that it will depending on the charging requirements.

The minimum state of charge level on the Porsche app means that if your battery's current state of charge is < the value set e.g. 25% then when you connect the charge point to the car it will start charging immediately until it reaches 25% at which point it will then pause (flashes blue) waiting on the timer / profile to instruct what it does next.

 

[Fish Fingers]

Thanks once again Winge.

I am just going to try the charger app (Octopus Go selected) with nothing set on the car and see how that goes.

I had nothing set on either when I charged it yesterday for the first time. I just plugged it in and it all turned green!

Thought process is......if it did that ok, without any complications - then adding the charger timer may just turn the charger on at 00:30 and off at 04:30. I know it will add about 30kwh over 4 hours, so do this when battery at c50%.

 

[W1NGE]

Thanks once again Winge.

I am just going to try the charger app (Octopus Go selected) with nothing set on the car and see how that goes.

I had nothing set on either when I charged it yesterday for the first time. I just plugged it in and it all turned green!

Thought process is......if it did that ok, without any complications - then adding the charger timer may just turn the charger on at 00:30 and off at 04:30. I know it will add about 30kwh over 4 hours, so do this when battery at c50%.

Yep that will work Good luck!

Note that the charger is in the car and not your wall box - the wall box simply provides a safe and stable flow of current to feed the car's charger which in turn charges the battery. It doesn't help that these units or public charge points are called 'chargers' when they aren't - more accurately they are EV Supply Equipment (EVSE).

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