Battery options - set to 0W discharge rate but still discharging

2 comments started 2024-08-01 last 2024-08-01
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#1 Whooper

I set the battery options discharge rate to 0 watts when I am charging the EV overnight to prevent the house battery draining. However the dashboard still indicates that the house battery is delivering 532W. Not a big problem but why is it doing it?
The EV charger is a Zappi 2 which does not talk to GivEnergy, hence the workaround to prevent house battery drain.

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#2 DD

Whooper using timed pause is more effective at reducing discharge power - on the app, that would be timed-discharge mode. Just seems to be a constraint (bug?) in recent firmware that 0W doesn't mean 0W - either charge or discharge.

Or you could configure a timed charge with a very low target SoC, though I found that on firmware 309 it seems to impose a minimum of 20% even if you set target below that. Other firmwares may behave differently.

Turning off eco mode is another option, but there's no built-in timer, so you'd need an external agent to turn that on and off.