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Sheduled Charging
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You need to define both a Start time and a Stop Time. If you Just define a start time any time is after your start time.
OpenEVSE Support
Scheduler is the correct place. For Example If you have low rates at night between 11PM and 6AM You would set:
11PM Active
6AM Disabled
The station would be Active anytime between 11PM and 6AM
The station would be Disabled anytime between 6AM and 11PM
OpenEVSE Support
It is important to think about the timer chronologically and ensure there is a Disable and Enable at the right place. For example if you want the charge Monday to Friday from 8PM to 6AM. the Enable would be M,T,W,Th,F and the disable would be T,W,Th,F,Sa.
If you did both M,T,W,Th,F The Enable from Friday would not disable until Monday at 2AM
I have a timer set for every day of the week to disable at 12:01a. I keep this always, even though the default is to set to disabled.
I then set another Timer to activate (12:02A)
I then set a third Timer to Disable (5:00a)
Works for me.
OpenEVSE Support
@John
7.1.3 is a really old firmware version for the safety controller and 5.1.4 is really new. Its possible there is a conflict between the two.
Is the station turning purple and sleeping when disabled and green when enabled?
OpenEVSE Support
@Per Check Sleep Mode, there are two options. The default which is the J1772 standard is to put the pilot HIGH which means EVSE not ready. THe other option is "Disable" which puts the pilot LOW in an Error state. Some Vehicles go to sleep and do not respond to the J1772 standard, but going from and error to ready wakes them up.
Hello.
I have a small problem:
I try to schedule 4 times every day:
01h40 activated
08h05 disabled
12h40 activated
14h05 deactivated
I manage to make 3 schedules, but when I create the fourth one, one of the other 3 disappears !
I specify that I have already succeeded in creating these 4 schedules, but I had to delete 2 for a week, and I can no longer redo the 4.
There must be something I’m doing wrong...
Thank you in advance for your help!
Fred
Hi. Yes to "Is the station turning purple and sleeping when disabled and green when enabled?"
When I toggle charge mode from disabled to auto, charging kicks in (as expected) but scheduled times show up in the middle dispaly bar, as below
In terms of upgrading, I bumped the wifi module to 5.1.5, and will up the main controller to the latest stable at the weekend..
Yep, that is exactly what I've bee ndoing and.. nada, the car doesn't start to charge :(
Are there _any_ other settings that mioght stop this happening? I'm on
OpenEVSE 7.1.3.EU
OpenEVSE Wifi v5.1.4
Thanks
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@John
The leaf should work fine with the default..
standard J1772 Sleep Pilot HIGH (Evse not ready) to Pilot PWM (EVSE ready)
the work around non-Standard evse LOW (Error) to Pilot PWM (EVSE ready)
To set a timer
set EVSE default state to DISABLES
Set a Day/Time to enable the EVSE
Ser a Day/Time to disable the EVSE
The station will charge between the enable time and disable time.
Hi,
We have a 2011 Nissan Leaf and I'm unable to get the timed schedule working (i disable charging, and add a start and stop time). Can you explain the workaround for this a little more please:
"but going from and error to ready wakes them up."
does that mean we need to wake it up from an error state? if so, how?
thanks
For some reason mine defaults to active even though I set the default to disabled.
So, I set 3 timers.
1 for every day at 12:00A to disable charging. I leave this always in my timers
1 for activate for the day that I want to charge over night. (Monday 1:00A)
1 for Disabled for the day I want the charge to happen. (Monday 5:00A)
Michelle Stoetzel
I think all my previous "smart" chargers would not charge when the EV was plugged in, IF there was a schedule. Unless manually selected to start a charge, they'd wait for the schedule start time.
The openevse charger charges right when I plug the EV in. I tried setting up a schedule starting at 9am and all days of the week, but it still starts charging immediately when plugging in the car.
How can I set up a schedule to activate the charge and not have the charge start when I plug the EV in?
I looked all over for this throughout the menus and did not see anything. Also, I looked for a guide on usage of the charger and found nothing so far.
Thank you!