All the L3 EVSE I have seen in use (Blink/ccg and others) offer the charge initiator the option of what level SOC they want end the charging at. Some drivers set it to 100% SOC, others just go with the EVSE's default of 80%. Each L3 EVSE's hardware and each EV's hardware operate a little differently (your experience will vary depending on what you have and what you are working with).
Since after 80% SOC the level 3 charger's current drops dramatically (down to about the L2 rate), the wisest and most prudent use of the L3 EVSE is for the driver to disconnect at 80% SOC and move out of the space to allow another driver to use the L3 charging (meaning if they want to finish their charge to 100%, they would plug into a L2 EVSE elsewhere). But that does not happen. Once a driver is in front of the L3 EVSE, they consider it theirs, and they do not care about anyone else. So there is the best use of the more rare L3 EVSE, and then there are how inconsiderate humans misbehave. There are other factors as to if a L3 EVSE charges to 100% SOC, see http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?t=12637 (QC-settings) and there are the differences between what the L3 EVSE display says, and what the EV's display says, see http://www.saxton.org/tom_saxton/2012/09/dcqc-soc.html For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-EVLN-Charge-Net-NZ-L3-2-EVSE-in-Wellington-and-Petone-tp4681247p4681253.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
