Electric car home charge

Risem71

Can some help me with a query on my home charger. When I plug in the car it charges for approx 2 mins and cuts out. Light is blue before plugging in and when it cuts out it changes to red. Is there a quick fix for this or do I need to call out an engineer. Any knowledge would be appreciated. Thanks. Btw! It's a nissan leaf car and from what I can work out from paperwork is its a MTL model charger.

DesperateDan

I can't help sorry, but probably best to mention the make and model of the charger

Risem71

DesperateDan wrote: »

I can't help sorry, but probably best to mention the make and model of the charger

Thanks.

mordeith

Risem71 wrote: »

Thanks.

Is it tripping anything on the breaker board?

Risem71

mordeith wrote: »

Is it tripping anything on the breaker board?

No not tripping anything. Just cuts out and when I pull out the cable and put it back in it restarts before cutting out again after approx 2 mins.

punisher5112

Have you timer set???

If you press a certain button dash this will override I believe.

Check settings and it should charge away.

TBi

Sounds like the timer is set in the car. This is what happens when i plug in my car during the day. It connects for a minute to check there is power then disconnects until night rate starts.

You can disable this via a button somewhere.

Risem71

punisher5112 wrote: »

Have you timer set???

If you press a certain button dash this will override I believe.

Check settings and it should charge away.

No timer set. I can charge in all public chargers no problem. Do you mean a timer on the box?

Risem71

TBi wrote: »

Sounds like the timer is set in the car. This is what happens when i plug in my car during the day. It connects for a minute to check there is power then disconnects until night rate starts.

You can disable this via a button somewhere.

I charge day and night in work and public chargers. If timer is set would it still charge everywhere other then home?

KCross

Risem71 wrote: »

Can some help me with a query on my home charger. When I plug in the car it charges for approx 2 mins and cuts out. Light is blue before plugging in and when it cuts out it changes to red. Is there a quick fix for this or do I need to call out an engineer. Any knowledge would be appreciated. Thanks. Btw! It's a nissan leaf car and from what I can work out from paperwork is its a MTL model charger.

What are the 3 lights doing on the Leaf when you plug it in? Are they turning on/off sequentially for the 2 mins?

If so, thats normal. It then just waits until the timer in the car activates the charge later that night.

Press the override button to the right of the steering wheel if you want it to charge immediately.

Risem71

punisher5112 wrote: »

Have you timer set???

If you press a certain button dash this will override I believe.

Check settings and it should charge away.

Double checked to be sure but definitely no timer set.

punisher5112

Risem71 wrote: »

Double checked to be sure but definitely no timer set.

Is it waiting for night time rate??

Risem71

KCross wrote: »

What are the 3 lights doing on the Leaf when you plug it in? Are they turning on/off sequentially for the 2 mins?

If so, thats normal. It then just waits until the timer in the car activates the charge later that night.

Press the override button to the right of the steering wheel if you want it to charge immediately.

Thanks. Ya lights are flashing as if charging until it cuts out. Just double checked and no timer is set.

punisher5112

Risem71 wrote: »

Thanks. Ya lights are flashing as if charging until it cuts out. Just double checked and no timer is set.

How low is it? Was it in turtle mode?

Leave in for an hour it may be doing a battery balance, but can't say for sure.

Try switching everything off at distribution board... MCB s and reset all.

Risem71

punisher5112 wrote: »

Is it waiting for night time rate??

No. Not waiting for night rate. Beginning to think a sparkie is required.

Risem71

punisher5112 wrote: »

How low is it? Was it in turtle mode?

Leave in for an hour it may be doing a battery balance, but can't say for sure.

Try switching everything off at distribution board... MCB s and reset all.

It was really low when it first happened. We tried again when we had it charged up and same thing. Been like this for few weeks. We'll give your suggestions a go. Thanks.

punisher5112

Risem71 wrote: »

It was really low when it first happened. We tried again when we had it charged up and same thing. Been like this for few weeks. We'll give your suggestions a go. Thanks.

Has water got into plug?

Try disconnecting charger cable and make sure no kinks or damage!

Have a look at pins and see if any corrosion as you know with rain and damp could be an issue.

Risem71

punisher5112 wrote: »

Has water got into plug?

Try disconnecting charger cable and make sure no kinks or damage!

Have a look at pins and see if any corrosion as you know with rain and damp could be an issue.

Will do tomorrow thanks.

Risem71

Update on this incase any of you experience difficultly in the future. So, by process if elimination we figured it was the actual home charge point that was definitely the issue. Was going to call out an engineer from the ESB to have a look at it but was putting it on the long finger. As it happens we had a plumber call today to do a few jobs and seen as he knows abit about electrics we asked him to have a quick look at the charge box. He opened it up, sprayed abit of oil around the circuits of the board, closed it back up and hey presto!! Back in action.

NIMAN

Risem71 wrote: »

Update on this incase any of you experience difficultly in the future. So, by process if elimination we figured it was the actual home charge point that was definitely the issue. Was going to call out an engineer from the ESB to have a look at it but was putting it on the long finger. As it happens we had a plumber call today to do a few jobs and seen as he knows abit about electrics we asked him to have a quick look at the charge box. He opened it up, sprayed abit of oil around the circuits of the board, closed it back up and hey presto!! Back in action.

Is this all he did?

Risem71

NIMAN wrote: »

Is this all he did?

Yep! Reckon a bit of damp got in. Oil cleared it.

BoatMad

How many days a week is the unit being used

Risem71

BoatMad wrote: »

How many days a week is the unit being used

Very rarely. Possibly once a week. Charge mostly at work.