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I have an issue and finally involved Ford support. My setup:
1. FCSP installed 55ish feet of wire from circuit breaker, 100 amp, direct run with electrician installed wiring. FCSP installed inside garage.
2. Disconnect box installed just above FCSP so I can shut it off without turning off circuit breaker.
3. Amperage dial set to 7 (80 amps) in FCSP
4. Shiny white cover removed to allow what little dissipation of heat can be radiated.
5. FCSP mounted with about 3 inches of air space behind the box. Not planned but that's how it turned out.
6. Truck is 23 Lariat ER.
I usually set the max charge power to 48 or 60 amps through FordPass and as far as I know it is used by the FCSP because of charge rate during various charge sessions.
When I plug into the FCSP, I usually see a pulsing blue light when commo between truck and EVSE are initiated along with a solid yellow light on the right side. Pulsing blue light turns solid after a minute or less, yellow turns off and FordPass will usually say waiting for charge time. According to the manual, solid yellow means FCSP is charging at a reduced rate.
I took that to mean it was reduced because I told it to be reduced.
I recently took a road trip from Phoenix metro area to El Paso and back. When I returned I was down to about 25-27% and wanted to charge back to 85% during the five hour time slot my electric provider has for reduced EV charging rates so I set the max charge rate to 80 in FordPass. The app indicated the charge rate was changed, however, when I plugged in the charging started immediately, said the charge would be complete by the 0500 end of EVSE rates and the yellow reduced rate LED was on time was about 2PM. The charge rate the truck was getting was approximately 10.2-10.5 amps or about 44Kw according to FordPass.
Ambient temperature during this charge attempt was in the 80s.
After talking to Ford support, the response I received is that the FCSP is probably overheating, since they don't show any issues on their end. Isn't overheating an issue??? Hard to believe @ 80F ambient. Summertime around here OK, but not at 80. Their recommendation was to have electrician turn down the max charge rate inside FCSP, kind of negates having paid for a 100 amp circuit to support a not so 80 amp EVSE.
Couple of questions:
1. Anybody else have this issue in 80ish ambient temps?
2. Do the two AC to DC chargers inside the truck throw DTCs if there is a problem? I looked for DTCs today with FDRS and didn't see any current or past/permanent at all.
3. What module controls the AC to DC chargers?
Any suggestions would be welcome. As I indicated earlier, I normally don't use 80 amps but I paid to have the system installed to use 80 amps if I wanted and not being able to is just P>>>>sing me off.
Rant kinda off!
I have an issue and finally involved Ford support. My setup:
1. FCSP installed 55ish feet of wire from circuit breaker, 100 amp, direct run with electrician installed wiring. FCSP installed inside garage.
2. Disconnect box installed just above FCSP so I can shut it off without turning off circuit breaker.
3. Amperage dial set to 7 (80 amps) in FCSP
4. Shiny white cover removed to allow what little dissipation of heat can be radiated.
5. FCSP mounted with about 3 inches of air space behind the box. Not planned but that's how it turned out.
6. Truck is 23 Lariat ER.
I usually set the max charge power to 48 or 60 amps through FordPass and as far as I know it is used by the FCSP because of charge rate during various charge sessions.
When I plug into the FCSP, I usually see a pulsing blue light when commo between truck and EVSE are initiated along with a solid yellow light on the right side. Pulsing blue light turns solid after a minute or less, yellow turns off and FordPass will usually say waiting for charge time. According to the manual, solid yellow means FCSP is charging at a reduced rate.
I took that to mean it was reduced because I told it to be reduced.
I recently took a road trip from Phoenix metro area to El Paso and back. When I returned I was down to about 25-27% and wanted to charge back to 85% during the five hour time slot my electric provider has for reduced EV charging rates so I set the max charge rate to 80 in FordPass. The app indicated the charge rate was changed, however, when I plugged in the charging started immediately, said the charge would be complete by the 0500 end of EVSE rates and the yellow reduced rate LED was on time was about 2PM. The charge rate the truck was getting was approximately 10.2-10.5 amps or about 44Kw according to FordPass.
Ambient temperature during this charge attempt was in the 80s.
After talking to Ford support, the response I received is that the FCSP is probably overheating, since they don't show any issues on their end. Isn't overheating an issue??? Hard to believe @ 80F ambient. Summertime around here OK, but not at 80. Their recommendation was to have electrician turn down the max charge rate inside FCSP, kind of negates having paid for a 100 amp circuit to support a not so 80 amp EVSE.
Couple of questions:
1. Anybody else have this issue in 80ish ambient temps?
2. Do the two AC to DC chargers inside the truck throw DTCs if there is a problem? I looked for DTCs today with FDRS and didn't see any current or past/permanent at all.
3. What module controls the AC to DC chargers?
Any suggestions would be welcome. As I indicated earlier, I normally don't use 80 amps but I paid to have the system installed to use 80 amps if I wanted and not being able to is just P>>>>sing me off.
Rant kinda off!
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