Balance charge on face lift only on granny?

[N2STY]

I have heard a lot of people say you can balance charge on a 7kw home charger but the manual says on a charger under 3kw for this to work?

 

[Vipar]

It say recommend NOT to exceed 7kw

 

[TonyP]

In the manual extract that you show above it states that to carry out equalisation charge it is recommended that the charger output does not exceed 7kW. Therefore a home charger should be fine.

 

[N2STY]

Sorry I was look at the 1st bit saying under 3kw is classed as slow and equalisation only works on slow so the manual contradicts itself?

 

[Jomarkh]

You can battery balance on any type 2 EVSE.
After 100% the car will draw about 300-500W until it is complete and may take a few hours if you do a lot of rapid charging. Try and do it once a month.

 

[N2STY]

You can battery balance on any type 2 EVSE.
After 100% the car will draw about 300-500W until it is complete and may take a few hours if you do a lot of rapid charging. Try and do it once a month.

You say a few hours again this is confusing it got to be worth using the granny overnight after car is full every now and then?

 

[JodyS21]

You say a few hours again this is confusing it got to be worth using the granny overnight after car is full every now and then? View attachment 7852View attachment 7853

There’s no figure for how long it will take to do the balance, it purely depends how out of balance the cells are. DC charges are supposed to get it out of balance quicker than AC charges. The recommendation is generally to balance at least once a month.
If it’s like the old ZS, it will only balance for a maximum of [10 or is it 12?] hours at a time.
I fully balance probably 2-3 times every week, it only seems to take less than an hour.
{To confirm (any rated) AC charge will start a balance once it’s reached 100%}

 

[Chrisjk]

Hi. My SH zsev bought with 800 miles on clock a year ago. Battery was so out of balance garage had it back for 5 weeks to sort it up. No issues since using home pod point