Unexpected charge to 100%

8 comments started 2023-04-06 last 2023-04-06
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#1 RichardBarton

Does anyone know why this happened? At midnight my battery began a charge from 20% up to 100%. I have Eco set on and the timed charge was set for 3.30 until 4 am only? It has been working normally before.

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#2 Minimanic

I was just about write a thread on this issue also....i have set mine a number of times to either only charge to say 20% in a timed period (on both the phone app and the pc) or not to time charge at all.

It seems to work maybe for one night then resets to 100%.

Its getting really frustrating!!

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#3 TX200

Have you got a tariff card showing on your web portal homepage?

If so, is the automation part of that card enabled?

The tariff automations generally charge to 100%

So if you want customisation, disable that automation.

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#4 Minimanic

I did, thank you, I have submitted to stop automation now. Hopefully that works, I hadn't noticed that before!

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#5 RichardBarton

TX200 I do have a tariff card but did not have any automations active.
I'll make sure they are all fully disabled.

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#6 TX200

RichardBarton using GivTCP at all? There's a smart target setting that can be disabled - it aims for 100% during the winter months and lower percentages the rest of the year. Might not be relevant now we are in March (can't remember exactly what months it uses 100% as the target).

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#7 RichardBarton

TX200 no, I don't use Givtcp. It's a wierd situation. It worked fine the day before. Usually i change the charge amount and time each evening as I'm on Octopus Agile.
I'll reset everything to default then put my charge % in again as see what happens tonight.
The only thing to note was that last night, it took several attempts before the settings were accepted. Prior to that I kept getting an error.

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#8 RichardBarton

I had a look at yesterday's profile and it seems I had a period of unplanned export and then the battery hit the low stop and went through what looks like a calibration cycle