Recent content by GadjoDave

Slightly off-topic, but might be of interest: I highly recommend two books by American writer Steven M Casey on true tales of design, technology, human error and the law of unexpected consequences: "The Atomic Chef" (Aegean, 2006) and "Set Phasers On Stun" (Aegean, 1993). Out of print, but...

Agghh! That's a real pity, as my friend's workaround sounded like it might do the trick. Maybe a future MG firmware upgrade might offer the option of setting charging current (or power) in smaller user-selected increments? I guess another workaround is to cut out the Zappi altogether when I...

Thanks for the advice and explanation on cell balancing - very helpful. Boost mode isn't activated and there are no other limits. I did a granny charge overnight, and I'm pleased to report the MGiSmart app is reporting that the battery has now charged to 100%. I'm planning to drive to London...

Thanks. This time I didn't repeat disconnection and reconnection of the 12V battery: I just sat in the car and started it up. Not so many warning messages as last time. Whilst it was booting up and sending warning messages, I turned the steering wheel fully left then fully right, and the...

I thought it was going to prompt me to turn the steering wheel to both extremes at the appropriate moment during the re-boot sequence; but it didn't. Does this mean I've missed the opportunity to calibrate the steering and need to repeat the process of disconnecting and reconnecting the 12V...

Thanks! Worrying moment there: I thought I'd managed to brick the car! What about the power steering? It's sending me alerts about this but hasn't asked me to perform a calibration, so how will it know that the steering is properly calibrated and safe to use?

So... I've just powered down my MG4 using the Safety>Power Off setting. Removed the Negative Terminal from the 12V battery. Waited a minute. Reconnected the 12V battery and powered up. When the system powered up, it only asked me to calibrate the 4 electric windows in turn. Not sure how to do...

Hi - glad your system is behaving well at present! I'm on Intelligent Octopus tariff, so it costs 7.5p/unit to charge my EV and/or Powerwall overnight, which is great; but when my system was working before these problems I could charge my car for free on sunny days from PV, and only use the...

Many thanks for your clear and thoughtful reply. I hadn't appreciated the fact that overwriting user settings might be a necessary programming strategy to avoid loops, but from that perspective it certainly makes sense - even if it makes for a frustrating end-user experience ;-) I've been...

Thanks - I agree there are all sorts of potential problems in using multiple apps and hardware and getting them to work together as intended without conflict; but this all worked fine for me till last week's MG firmware updates. My requirements/expectations can't be that exceptional: there must...

Thanks for the link and workaround... I really appreciate your help, and if this was a second hand car that I'd bought cheaply then I'd accept these kind of problems as part of the deal and have a go at fixing them myself. However this is a 6 month old car that cost me over £ 32K to buy from...

Thanks for your reply. Apologies for my lengthy posts: I'm just trying to include as much detail as possible in case it is relevant and helps someone identify a possible cause or solution. I had the MG4 Trophy LR from new last September, and it used to all work fine when trickle charging from...

Many thanks. Just before I got your last post, I had just restarted charging again (required unplugging and reinserting charging plug, checking that Charge Settings on both MGiSmart app and in car firmware are both set to "Scheduled Charging: OFF" and "Target Battery Level: 100%", and toggling...

Tried again to charge from PV today in Eco+ mode, with latest versions of Zappi firmware and MyEnergi app. The starting Battery Level was 86% with a Target Battery Level of 100%. Charging started and continued without any problems until I diverted the surplus PV generation from the Zappi to...

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