Scheduled Charging on the MG5

[Alb]

Reading THIS thread got me thinking.
I plugged my car in ready for a scheduled 0030-0430 Octopus Go charge last Friday but when I checked the car on Saturday morning, the charge hadn't taken place.
Uncertain about the cause, I did some checks during the day on Saturday and everything seemed to be working correctly, so that evening I plugged it back in for a scheduled 0030-0430 charge on the Sunday morning.
This worked without a hitch so I thought no more about it until I read the thread referenced above.
After checking footage from my security cameras, I can be certain that I plugged my car in at exactly 1221 Hrs on the Friday so my Saturday morning scheduled charge start time would have exceeded the 12 hour window mentioned by 9 minutes. Would this be the reason the charge failed?
I can't recall reading anything definitive about this 12 hour window so I would welcome your thoughts.

 

[Stuwit46]

What charger do you have? I had issues with mine to start with.

 

[Alb]

I have a Hypervolt, but I could see also from my camera footage that on the Saturday morning, it energised at 0030 Hrs and de-energised at 0430 Hrs. I'm pretty sure the charge was being prevented at the car end.

 

[AbandonedTrolley]

Certainly sounds like you went over the 12 hour cut off. The system probably doesn't care if you miss it by 9 seconds, it has an off time and that's it.

I guess it's easy to check again just to confirm, plug in 12 hours and 5 minutes before the intended start time and see if it works. Good to know and can help peoples confusion with failed charges.