merkurmaniac
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- Oct 15, 2017
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This has happened a few times now... I like to charge at night for environmental reasons. I live about 5 miles from the largest coal fired powerplant in Texas. They have to shut down their coal trains each night, as wind power is so cheap at night, that it knocks them out, price-wise. I like to charge from 1am to 5 am so I am more likely charging from wind rather than coal. Anyways...
This morning, I go to unplug it, and the charger door LED is flashing red. Damnit. I hop in and the display reads something like "unable to charge, note range and contact dealer." 44 miles electric range, so it didn't charge at all. Probably the 3rd time or so that it has done this. Sux. I may be using a bit of gasoline to get home today. Urggghhhh.
A prior time it had this fault was a much bigger pain. It tripped my EVSE, I guess. A clipper creek 40A unit that had the two bottom red lights flashing. The car wouldn't unlock the charging cable, and I eventually had to dig out the manual and find the little blue cord to pull. I had to shut power to reboot the EVSE. For days afterwards, I had the little cord with the timer showing on the dash, even though it was set to "charge immediately". I finally got it to go away, by deleting the departure times. Its seems like it is getting wonky with the "tarif charging", or whatever BMW like to call it. I did some coding a while back, but fairly simple stuff.
I hate to think that I am going to have to take it into BMW just a month after buying it. How common is it to have faults with the "charge later" mode ?
2015 I3 Rex, btw.
This morning, I go to unplug it, and the charger door LED is flashing red. Damnit. I hop in and the display reads something like "unable to charge, note range and contact dealer." 44 miles electric range, so it didn't charge at all. Probably the 3rd time or so that it has done this. Sux. I may be using a bit of gasoline to get home today. Urggghhhh.
A prior time it had this fault was a much bigger pain. It tripped my EVSE, I guess. A clipper creek 40A unit that had the two bottom red lights flashing. The car wouldn't unlock the charging cable, and I eventually had to dig out the manual and find the little blue cord to pull. I had to shut power to reboot the EVSE. For days afterwards, I had the little cord with the timer showing on the dash, even though it was set to "charge immediately". I finally got it to go away, by deleting the departure times. Its seems like it is getting wonky with the "tarif charging", or whatever BMW like to call it. I did some coding a while back, but fairly simple stuff.
I hate to think that I am going to have to take it into BMW just a month after buying it. How common is it to have faults with the "charge later" mode ?
2015 I3 Rex, btw.