My Trophy has been into the dealer twice now for various things including iSmart spontaneously changing my overnight charge target from 80% to 100%. The problem continues.
The other day it went to 100%. As I was away it was impossible for me to use the car to deplete the battery so it sat at 100% for 36 hours. On return I took it for a needless drive but had to return home at 85%. Given the recommendation to keep the Trophy battery between 80 and 100% do you think the battery has been damaged?
Not noticable as a one off or two, it's the longer it's sitts on a high charge and the acumulation of these instances over time that count to more than normal degradation. Do not worry over the 85% it' way better than sitting at 100%.
Always chek the ismart app before every home charge, as it does the 80% changing to 100% "trick" ? from time to time.
Back to last night test of home ac smart charging with 80% cut off.
As I have mentioned I had to resort to charging my car with the car starting and stopping the charge with the cars inbuilt charge planner to get it to stop at 80% (LR), so called dum charging as it made me think it was impossible to let my powercompany controll the charger and start/stop the charging when prices is low and not to exceed 80% soc (The cars charge planner is acsessable in the infotainment screen and the ismart app).
Well to put it short (ha) it was a succsess.
The process was possible when setting the charge plan to start before I plug in the charger (because of problems getting the powercompany app to recognice the car beeing connected) and after it should be finnished, in my case 1800 to 0600. Then get the powercompany app to connect and controll the charger to get it to charge when the price was lowest between 0200 and 0500 last night (Norway has spot hourly rates).
To be honnest the prosess was very fiddly caused by the ismart to constantly changing the planner back to my normal 2200-0600 scedule (mybe because it was all done in the app) and the powercompany app not recognicing that the car was connected.
Everything was further complicated by the fact that opening the apps to chek if everyting was set reset the planner or disconected the powercompany app (Tibber) from the car.
Workaround was to not go to far in to the powercompany app ( Tibber) and relying on the charger be light up green in the Tibber app and not go in to the charger tab, and when this seemed ok chek the ismart app to see if the planner was stil ok and then leave it all alone.
It all seem a bit complicated but in reality it's all about finding out how to avoid the car to revert to previus settings and make the car, charger and apps talking to eachothers. As Rolfe says, "Finding the workarunds and it's not realy a problem." ?
Now I just have to use some of the "juice" so I can continue the test.
P.s. to just stop the charging at 80% it's just to set the cars charge planner to charge when you want it to and set max soc to your liking (normaly 80%), start the charger and let it be controlled by the car.
Hope this wil help those who have problems stopping ac charge of their LR at 80%.