Hi Martin. Yes! Over on eva-scotland.org. I'm going to put a link to your post there as I think it's relevant to some of the problems here. We get more rain too! Cheers
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Martin Winlow <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I was on a trip W/bound on the M25/M4 today and had Chademo'ed 40 > miles after leaving home with a full charge to 80% at Nissans HQ at Maple > Cross, no issues. Got to Reading Services and had to get round to the E/b > side as W/b Chademo was U/s, got the manager out to kindly open the access > barrier, connected as usual to ecotricity's Chademo and got a ground fault > error. Tried again, same thing. 5 miles remaining. What to do? Managed > to get thru to ecotricity's help line who suggested going to Nissan in > Reading but the post code (correct) takes you to the wrong place and twice > round a busy dual carriageway before finding it (bear right at the BP and > it's next to Audi). They were helpful and let me charge BUT despite it > starting up ok, it kicked me out with a 'can receiving error'. Tried the > button to resume and it did but kept on giving the same error after 10-30 > seconds of charging. Thinking I'm well stuck now with no miles at all, I > spoke to the management again who > said it was working fine for their Leaf, that morning. So tried ringing > Peugeot who could only offer the AA. Went back to the charger and tried > again and it charged for about one minute and then gave same error. > Noticed that each time i did this the car was charging a percent or two. > By the time AA turned up (saying they thought it was a flat ICE battery > and therefore no help at all) I was at 50% having been at Nissan for an > hour. > > Then, after another few resets it continued without error. Believe this is > due to the much lower current being drawn by now (50A compared with 120A > when empty). So AA cleared off, I continued charging normally to 80% and > then again to 85%, then drove on to Membury Services. Charged perfectly > normally on the Chademo there. By now raining significantly. Off to Leigh > Delamere services. Guess what, again after initially starting to charge, > the ecotricity chademo kicked me out again with a ground fault error again. > By now it was raining quite hard. Ecotricity help line not answering > anymore. Gave up trying to get where I was going, another 60 miles, and > decided to divert to sister - 15 miles away but only 10 miles range! > > Managed to get to other side of services (nightmare) and, would you Adam > and Eve it, Chademo works perfectly normally. Quick 10 mins fast charging > and off to sisters in time for dinner. > > So, convinced problem is not with car as surely it would either charge > normally or not at all (?) but equally convinced chargers should have a > canopy to keep rain out of 300+V, 120A connections and that they should get > fixed quicker! > > Not very impressed and realistically unlikely to trust ecotricity fast > charge network again for a long time. > > Anyone else had any similar experiences? > > MW > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140127/99d06f4f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
