The other night I popped into a car dealership that has a 50 kW CCS charger around back, it's listed in Plugshare and on an inquiry earlier in the day I was assured that they don't block off the lot at night. So nobody around, I pull up to the thing. It has a card reader on the front but it's not active, it's free charging. So I hooked up and hit "start", waited a bit watching zero current on my OBD2 app ... then realized the charger was saying there was "insufficient power" to charge. ??? It certainly had power, or the display wouldn't even be on. The "?" button brought up a help screen about how it might be on a shared circuit with some other charger in use, or a couple of other excuses, none of which would apply here in the single installation. Basically it was confused. It's a 50 kW ABB CCS/CHAdeMO unit, I didn't get a model... Nissan dealership, though, so their having one would make sense. Seeing the honkin' disconnect box on the wall right behind it, I pulled the handle and powered the whole thing off. *Now* it definitely had "insufficient power"... fired it back up, and am somewhat kicking myself now for not capturing the boot screen, which definitely indicated a Linux heart. But now it could start a charge, even though it was feeding the Kona only around 38 kW and wouldn't go any higher. I was in ideal high-power conditions, 30-something % SOC and pack temp around 80F. A brief gander inside the disconnect showed a 3-phase fused setup, which has clearly been out in the weather for a while, so maybe something has loosened up in there and it really *is* delivering less power than it should. Maybe a phase is out but the charger is still able to limp along on 2? I didn't try to dianose further, and with the box rated for a 480 or 600 volt feed I was a little loath to take a low-end voltmeter to it or start poking around for heat. I didn't really need much charge anyway, just a little push-up so I wouldn't arrive back home at low SOC, so I ran it long enough to observe that the pack in the "new replacement" Kona is *beautifully* balanced, highest/lowest cells locked at pretty much the same number while taking in 108 amps, and the highest/lowest cell numbers jumping around in a reassuringly random way. Took on about 10 kWh and got on the road again. _H*
Maybe it looked similar to this one (in reference to boot screen) Someone forgot to select install now, cancel or "ignore" on the menu behind
Nope, had plug storage on the front under the screen, and the boot messages came up in VTY console mode like you see from "dmesg". It DHCPed itself onto some network, and then soon after went into normal graphical mode. Maybe next time I go past there I'll collect more info.. it seems that several Nissan shops in the area [eastern MA, US] got these installed, probably in the heyday of the Leaf. This place also has like 3 level-2s scattered around. _H*
Excellent! I wish all dealers had that attitude. I went to BMW on Saturday and their two headed, ChargePoint, L2, was ICEd by dealer cars. Bob Wilson
A lose connection wouldn't deliver less power, it would overheat, and potentially cause a fire if bad enough. And I'm sure if an entire phase was out it wouldn't work. Either your car was only asking for 38, or the charger is software limited to 38 (probably the car) Sent from my SM-G781U using Tapatalk