I’ve had issues with my Ohme home pro, but it looks like it’s an issue with my electric supply. The charger was showing error and not charging and when you switched it off and on it showed overvoltage. After a few calls to Ohme, Octopus and my energy supplier I’ve had a monitor fitted for the past 3 days which will be collected this morning and hopefully it won’t take to long to sort out the reduction in power supply to my property which is what’s apparently causing the issue. I’m looking forward to once its fixed being able to plug the car in and leaving it to do its own thing and as others have said getting cheaper electricity at other times of the day than just 23:30 to 05:30.
I have a question if anyone can help. I’ve calculated that my car charges between 7.2 and 7.4 kwph so it adds roughly 10% charge per hour, I have a 67 kw battery, so in the 6 hours off peak charging with octopus I can add around 60% to the battery but if I plugged the car in to charge at for example 20:00 with a departure time of 09:00 from what I understand the charging may happen at anytime during those 13 hours so if the battery was at 10% and set to charge to 100% it could charge the car by 90% and it would all be charged at off peak rate as it’s been set to intelligent charge? Also anytime it decides to charge the car all your electricity used during each half hour period is also at off peak rate?
Like a lot of people who have or are making the change to electric this can all seem a bit bewildering, but once you get the hang of it and everything’s set up correctly the benefits are massive and I’m sure that within a few weeks it’ll be second nature.