Charging minimum and departure settings

[AMally]

Aargh.. such a peeve with this..

So, I have a weekday morning schedule (7am)

If I plug in after a drive on the weekend , I’ll either get the short abrupt green flashes ( planned charge related to departure the coming Monday ) .. or the slow pulsing green charge indicator.

but..
the problem is I want to charge immediately, without the minimum charge set ( has been on 50% to get the most possible)

I put the car to charge Saturday afternoon, no off peak time is set.
The car began the rapid blip.. my thoughts were it’s waiting for the Monday departure.. so I had to unlock the car, get in and cycle ignition.. to get the e-manager open.. then press ‘ start charging’

I could see this starting the charge, the pulsing green indicator was active.
However this morning only 50% was charged… aargh

I’ve now set the minimum down to 0
But when I put it to charge this afternoon it went directly into rapid blips.. as no minimum was set. Ffs

so back in the car and start the charge manually again…

am I missing some obvious function setting somewhere?
I just don’t get why if I have a departure schedule set, it would make any difference on the weekends?

hope someone has experienced something similar and is able to shed some light

regards
Andy

 

[irfy8]

If you dont have the off peak tariff then just set the temp for dep not the charging.

 

[AMally]

Cheers Irfy, I’ll check my settings

 

[Stebb]

You can set the off-peak marker (in the app anyway) differently per departure time. So my car is set to charge every night off-peak (clearly it won't charge if already full). If I have a separate journey to make I add a departure time without the off-peak marker.
Alternatively, when I power off the car after a trip, it offers Charge Immediately before I open the drivers door. I can then plug it in and it starts straight away.
I didn't think the minimum charge setting was for when you plug in - only for when you're driving?

 

[Joedm45]

Hello all, first time poster, apologies for hijacking the thread...

I picked up my Leon ehybrid yesterday, it's the first charge tonight and struggling with scheduled charging.

I'm on an E7 tariff so I've input the off peak times into e-manager. Despite this it just wants to charge straight away. I've also tried to force it another way by setting the departure time to 6.55am, the same time as my night rate finishes to see if that works and still an instant charge.
I've given up for tonight and just left it charging on the day rate, any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I can only think with all the trying and changing settings I should have done things in a certain order.

The car is great by the way, really looking forward to many miles in it.

Thanks
Joe

 

[irfy8]

Hello all, first time poster, apologies for hijacking the thread...

I picked up my Leon ehybrid yesterday, it's the first charge tonight and struggling with scheduled charging.

I'm on an E7 tariff so I've input the off peak times into e-manager. Despite this it just wants to charge straight away. I've also tried to force it another way by setting the departure time to 6.55am, the same time as my night rate finishes to see if that works and still an instant charge.
I've given up for tonight and just left it charging on the day rate, any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I can only think with all the trying and changing settings I should have done things in a certain order.

The car is great by the way, really looking forward to many miles in it.

Thanks
Joe

Check the minimum charge and set that to 0.

 

[Joedm45]

Cheers irfy8

I've updated to 0 and hopefully that does the trick when I next charge.

Not sure if it's me but that setting isn't in the most logical of places, tucked next to the hybrid mode button. Oh well, at least it's sorted.

It seems I picked the car up at the perfect time, the petrol stations are starting to run dry again in my area!

Thanks once again

 

[BrendanK]

Cheers irfy8

I've updated to 0 and hopefully that does the trick when I next charge.

Not sure if it's me but that setting isn't in the most logical of places, tucked next to the hybrid mode button. Oh well, at least it's sorted.

It seems I picked the car up at the perfect time, the petrol stations are starting to run dry again in my area!

Thanks once again

Not sure if this will get picked up 3 years on but I’m having the same issue, been the owner of my Seat 2 weeks now.

Charging on a 3 pin and even though I have the charging minimum set at 0% and my off peak hours set to 00:30 - 5:30am )as I’m on Octupus Go), the car still wants to charge straight away no matter what. I even turn off charge immediately on the car and it makes no difference. I’ve pressed stop charging on the app and 2 minutes later it starts charging again. I’m really at a loose end with it all, but staying up every night to go and put it on charge at 00:30 is just about killing me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Solo]

Not sure what could be going wrong really.

I also have off peak rate 0030-0500. I set my departure time for 5am (battery only), even though I won't be using the car until later. This ensures it will complete the charge within the off peak period. I have a 7kw wall box so it takes about 3.5hrs for a full charge. Minimum charge set to 0%.

I start the air con remotely using the app (if needed) rather than set another departure time for air con only.

This works perfectly for me. My only grumble is that other cars have an override button at the charging flap if you want it to charge immediately at a different time of day, when you have the usual departure time set. These cars don't have that and you either have to press buttons in the car or go on the app.

Maybe you have a software problem?