Hi, no a balancing period of four hours took about 1.6kw after 100% charge was reached. I was asking if that was normal? Incidentally my balance charge is always about four hours even though I have not used any fast charging away from home. I only use my 7kw home pod point or top up at the free Tesco ones when shopping which are also 7kw pod points
The length of the balance period is generally governed by the amount of imbalance in the battery.
The longer the time, the more of a imbalance is likely.
When the latest BMS is applied, depending on the SOH of your battery, prior to the update.
Then the balance time is likely to be long to start with, but will slowly reduce over time.
From my experience, you are unlikely to see a balance time of one hour, like on the previous software.
Just bare that in mind.
At about two hours, is what I have seen it taking at BEST ( or least ) on my car.
Just to say, that my car was never affected by the buggy software, so my imbalance was likely to be small to start with.
It has been reported that cars with affected imbalanced packs, where going to take a large number of charge / balance in order to chase the magical unicorn ? figures of 450 volts and 163 miles of range, which is seen as the NEW normal after the update has been applied.
It’s all to easy to be totally consumed by this target ?.
If your car is returning the figures suggested, then I would not get to stressed by the whole thing.
Any A/C supply can be used to carry out the balancing process.
Not a D/C rapid of course.
Balancing on a public charging post, may not seem like a good idea though, given the amount of time this will tie up the post ?.
