More charging fun times.

[dragon2611]

Tried to charge at a CPS site, plugged into the rapid, took several attempts to get the car to charge but eventually did at an earth-shattering 26kW or so, went back to the car an hour later to move it onto one of the numerous AC posts so as not to hog the only rapid.

Post authenticated the session and there were various clunks to suggest contactors were closing, but no power was dispensed, tried a couple more times including the post next door to it and couldn't get the car to take a charge. Then got the dreaded system fault, we'd ordered in a café, so I ended up leaving the car connected to one of the A/C posts as I couldn't move it anyway.

Came back an hour later (didn't care about hogging the AC post given there were plenty of others available) seems the system fault had cleared, but car never did charge (0.0005kWh dispensed in the entire hour) since the site was basically empty decided to give it another blast on the rapid which worked first time this time.

Are all PFL MG5's really finicky about charging or is mine especially bad?

I've noticed if you get either a bad CCS handshake on DC charging or a lack of power being dispensed on an AC charger it seems to cause the car to throw its toys out the pram and brick itself for a while.

Also, my Octopus card didn't work with the rapid, but luckily I also had a CPS RFID and i'd updated my account to use card payment the other week before visiting Scotland.

I also had a problem with an instavolt tritium unit the day before where I couldn't get it to charge the car.

 

[5teep]

Might just have been a picky charger, my own car can take a couple of attempts to start sometimes though. The AC charger is probably faulty, report it to chargeplace Scotland and they'll get it checked.

 

[dragon2611]

I do seem to have a lot of issues with public charging, but then again I don't do it very often.

 

[Jomarkh]

I had all sorts of issues with my MG5 SR not connecting correctly on CPS chargers while on the Outer Hebrides. Try CPS app and RFID card but had to make a couple of calls. The Electroverse RFID and app was very temperamental.

 

[dragon2611]

Oh well done CPS, seems the address on their website ([email protected]) forwards to [email protected], however the way they've done it causes a rejection because it violates the DMARC policy I have on my domain.

Remote server returned '550 5.7.509 Access denied, sending domain mydomain.net does not pass DMARC verification and has a DMARC policy of reject.'

 

[dragon2611]

Well the instavolt charger did work today at least, also I think I got a free A/C charge on a CPS post earlier as well, it didn't seem to respond to either the electroverse or the CPS RFID but it did dispense power.

Seems the main issue with the instavolt is you don't just press start, but you actually have to hold it (I think the button is a bit iffy tbh) it's also rather hard to read it's display with the sun shining on it as it's a tiny VFD display and the plastic has multiple stress fractures where it's either UV damage or someone's hit the charger.

 

[Caramaddy]

I always expect issues but luckily only once had an issue with Apple Green. Charged after the third attempt using a different charger.

 

[MickeySw]

FL MGs have another quirk when it comes to charging; CCS ignores the SoC limit/schedule set in the car/app, but obviously not AC EVSEs, got caught once or twice because I forgot to disable the limits.