Charging session fail

Gazzagreen

I tried charging the battery using Wonder Watt last night, but it didn't happen. Luckily I set the alarm to wake me at 3am to check on it, so I was able to turn on the battery charge using the GivEnergy portal instead. It had been unchecked for this test.

Picture below are the settings I used, Enable Smart Charge WAS ticked. I turned it off when used portal to charge battery instead.

I left Use Battery unticked. Do these settings look right?

admin

Gazzagreen Hi - that looks right, and it looks like the target charge was set to lower than the 14% SOC, which is why the log entry shows 'Keeping battery at SOC level:14% during off-peak'. This was determined based on a forecast for today of 27kWh and your daily usage of 9kWh.

Perhaps this could be made clearer.

Gazzagreen

I find that charging the battery to full is better value using Flux than using the sunlight, as I get more cash for putting electric into the grid than using it myself. Can the battery be charged to 100% no matter what the weather is going to be. How do i achieve that tonight?

admin

Gazzagreen Right, I see. You could quadruple (or more!) your daily electricity consumption, to ensure there's no kWh overlay compared to the forecast.

That's a poor workaround of course, but it should do what you want for now.

Might make sense to introduce a 'dumb charging' setting with a target percentage. Just conscious of not hastily introducing that and making the UI more confusing.

Gazzagreen

Yes it will all come together in time. So instead of 9gbs I should increase daily consumption to something like 40? I'll give it a try :)

admin

Gazzagreen Yep - or even 50 :-)

Gazzagreen

Can I just check that this means the battery shouldn't discharge lower than 15%

Or does it mean that the battery won't charge over 15%, and it should state 100% to fully charge?

Please let me know for tonight.

Thanks

admin

Gazzagreen If the calculated target for Smart charging is lower than the min charge specified, it will at least charge to the configured min charge percentage.

Actually, yeah you could use that instead of my convoluted suggestion earlier. :-)

Gazzagreen

Sorry I read your message but couldn't understand what you mean, please write as you would to a child and I may get it LOL

What should I put the min charge at? 15 or 100?

admin

Gazzagreen Set the min charge there to 100, yes. :-) Sorry for the confusion!

Gazzagreen

Have done. Good night sir, see you next time.

Gazzagreen

All worked great last night :)