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Car not detected (pilot signal issue?)

This is the second time this has happened on my charger with this car. The first time around the OpenEVSE time was kind enough to provide me a replacement charging cable because it appeared that there was no continuity on the pilot wire. I haven't tested it yet again but I assume its the same issue ( I will test to confirm ). The question is, since this has happened twice, what's the real problem? I doubt that I have 2 bad cables.

The symptoms were the same. I plug the charger into the car and the neither the car or the charger indicate anything is connected. I unplug the cable, then restart the the both components on the charger. Plug the cable back in and everything is working. But this process only worked once. Last time I was able to "apply the fix" 3 times before it didn't work anymore.

Any suggestions on other troubleshoot besides check for continuity on the pilot wire? There has to be a problem somewhere else that is causing this.

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The first thing to check is...  to login to the station and ensure there is not an active error. If the station is in an error state the pilot is LOW and will not detect the state.

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