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Phil23
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Posted: 12:20am 11 Aug 2018

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Looks like the charger in my 5.5kV Hybrid is developing a charger issue.

Getting an error on a daily basis now.
In the process of trying to get the warranty claim rolling...

Attached some logs if anyone's curious. I reckon there's on notable anomaly.

Phil.

2018-08-11_102003_Logs.zip

Edited by Phil23 2018-08-12

Madness

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Posted: 03:02am 11 Aug 2018

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Charging current of 0 is not good.

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Phil23
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Posted: 07:51am 11 Aug 2018

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Temperature dips before each failure.
Dunno what that temp actually is, but it has a downward trend before the error.

It does still charge, but is now having a daily error.
It seems to recover, but somethings definitely dying.

The logs a bit flaky, seems to have instantaneous readings.

Phil.

Edit, Trying to make the image more viewable.....

Edited by Phil23 2018-08-12

Warpspeed
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Posted: 11:47pm 11 Aug 2018

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Don't know for sure, but those "communication restored" comments may be a clue.

First thing I would do would be to replace the communications cable. That will probably not make any difference, but at least its something simple you could try first.

Cheers, �Tony.

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Posted: 02:24am 12 Aug 2018

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The Coms issues are nothing, that was me restarting the Laptop.

You know the one that's probably only required 2 reboots in the past 9 months & is now having an occasional shutdown, just when you want the logging.

I know a few more facts now.

1.- Temperature, wherever it's read from decreases before the error.
2.- If I touch nothing, charging will commence again after the batteries get below 53.0V.
The Error 29 message won't clear from the LCD screen until I disconnect that Mains input.

Phil.

Edited by Phil23 2018-08-13

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