FCSP with dedicated new service to detached garage!!

[Labs4Lightning]

I have not done anything yet, the Xfi-pod is still in order processing with Xfinity.

But the signal strength between the garage and house appears to get better in the evening, it connects to the router and got the update.

before I added the extender I took a long cable and moved an access point outside, couldn’t get it to connect.
with my current setup, I can access the charge station settings with the CSP app.
still don’t understand why CSP shows different software version than ford pass app.

also seems that since the .70 update my charge rate is down.
next time you charge, if it’s not middle of night, can you check your ford pass app after 1 hour and see how many kWh the ford pass app reports?

I charged yesterday and again no charger insights - seems since .70 update it stopped reporting.
that’s September in pic.

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[TaxmanHog]

I'll check this evening, I'm not requiring a huge charge though with short trips so far.

This is October so far, had a road trip on Saturday, then charged back to 90%, which was 85 KWH in just under 5 hours

 

[TaxmanHog]

Last nights charge session was brief, only ran 45 minutes to get ~12.681 KWH to replenish the battery 81% to 90%, the charging log data will not post an update until I disconnect the truck from the FCSP, which has always been a operating behavior.

Oddly, the log data to the CH

Then this morning after data posted, it logged in as if the session ran from 6am to 7am, actually it was last night from 9pm to 9:43pm

My utility credits app has not picked up the data yet, it keeps loosing its connection to the Ford Pass cloud.

 

[yed19]

Later this afternoon, my nephew finished the project by decommissioning the old 3 x 15 amp house feeders and connecting all garage loads to the new load center in the garage.

He removed all wire except on fishing leader so that I can repurpose the conduit for a CAT6 network feed to a computer in the bike shop.

Just future proof and go with the cat 8. It will cost you about $10 total more than Cat 6 and if you're running line, may as well go big Plus you can write it off, right?

 

[Firestop]

So, this discussion got me curious about what the FCSP‘s charging performance looked like. I’ve seen the DC fast charging curves, but not much discussion on the 80A/240V Level 2 FCSP.

Attached are the curves I observed on my CarScanner iApp for my last FCSP charge from ~52% to ~97% wher it auto stopped despite being set in my FordPass app to charge to 100%

Note: I had to stitch the screenshots together in Photoshop and repair some of the text wiped out during the the stitching. The Lariat ER has two 40A AC to DC chargers, but I’ve only been able to find one of their PIDs to monitor. That is why the buttom of the three stacked graphs is only showing in the 30’s and below; however, you can do the math and see there is ~72A being delivered to the truck during the bulk of the charging session up to about 90% SoC where the requested Amps drops like a rock. I remember @FlasherZ mention his issues finding the PIDs for both onboard chargers in his postings about his use of the TorquePro Android app. I wonder if he ever cracked that nut????

Also, I had to do a separate manual charge session to get it from ~97% to a displayed 100% SoC after the first session mysteriously stooped…..I added that observation to my list of observed kW delivered by the FCSP posted below.

Also, I’m only posting the graph from the beginning and the end of the session because the average charge rate kW delivered was fair constant during the middle of the session. These graphs document my following observations from the real time data:

The beginning of the charging session:

The end of the charging session: