daveo4EV
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@nwills ClipperCreek has _NO_ features other than it’s ugly and it always works and it doesn’t overheat and is mostly bulllet proof metaphorically…
you simply plug the car in and use the vehicle‘s charge % limites and any scheduling support provided by the vehicle.
this is best practice in my opinion as when the charger has it’s own “smarts” and the car has it’s own “smart” sometimes there are too many smarts and they outsmart each other and you wake up in the morning having found out that the car didn’t charge last night because the car and the charger couldn’t get on the same page with one another
I’m going to nit-pick your use of the term “instructions and the clipper creek follows them” - the clipper creek has _NO_ smarts (most EVSE’s have NO smarts) - they are dumb on/off valves - the car can ask them to turn the power “on” and the car can ask them to turn the power off. Saying an EVSE follows the car’s instructions is like saying a water-line follows your lawn sprinklers scheduling computer - the water line is just plain dumb - water either is allowed to flow or not allowed to flow…in this metaphone the ClipperCreek (and most EVSE’s) are the water line, and the car is the irrigation control computer…
so yes - if you install a “dumb” EVSE teh car will control the charging session - and that is the most reliable thing in my opinoin - because when the it doesn’t “work” for some reason it greatly simplifies investigation and resolution of the problem:
you simply plug the car in and use the vehicle‘s charge % limites and any scheduling support provided by the vehicle.
this is best practice in my opinion as when the charger has it’s own “smarts” and the car has it’s own “smart” sometimes there are too many smarts and they outsmart each other and you wake up in the morning having found out that the car didn’t charge last night because the car and the charger couldn’t get on the same page with one another
I’m going to nit-pick your use of the term “instructions and the clipper creek follows them” - the clipper creek has _NO_ smarts (most EVSE’s have NO smarts) - they are dumb on/off valves - the car can ask them to turn the power “on” and the car can ask them to turn the power off. Saying an EVSE follows the car’s instructions is like saying a water-line follows your lawn sprinklers scheduling computer - the water line is just plain dumb - water either is allowed to flow or not allowed to flow…in this metaphone the ClipperCreek (and most EVSE’s) are the water line, and the car is the irrigation control computer…
so yes - if you install a “dumb” EVSE teh car will control the charging session - and that is the most reliable thing in my opinoin - because when the it doesn’t “work” for some reason it greatly simplifies investigation and resolution of the problem:
- did the EVSE have power? - if the answer is yes - then the problem MUST be the vehicle and it’s scheduling settings.
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