Carging EV from grid and not from battery
We are On Octopus Go. At the end of the day currently our battery is full. I want to charge the car from the grid tonight and not drain the battery. Is there a way of doing this through the mode scheduler? TIA (Apols if this is answered elsewhere - couldn't spot an answer though it must be a FAQ)
Re: Carging EV from grid and not from battery
Rather than the scheduler you can use the charge periods, set the time for Octopus Go but leave the Charge from Grid switch turned off (that won’t charge or discharge).

If you are using the scheduler for anything you can’t run charge periods and scheduler at the same time and so scheduler options are a little more difficult - if you have a workmode called ‘backup’ you can select that for the time period and it will not allow discharge.

If you don’t have backup workmode, set you minsoc on grid (aka battery reserve) to be approx what your battery soc is - that will maintain your battery soc using a low power charge and will not allow discharge.
Re: Carging EV from grid and not from battery
Thanks Dave - really helpful. Just to be sure . . . Using your first suggestion:

I set my Ohme charger to charge during the Octopus Go night-time cheap period. And on the battery settings on the Fox app I set up a force time charge for the same period but disable it for the same period using the 'Charge from grid disabled' button.

Did I get that right? (this is all new to me!)

cheers, m
Re: Carging EV from grid and not from battery
Yes if you have set a charge time for your Octopus Go period with 'Charge from grid disabled' (don't forget to Submit as that sends it to the inverter) - it will not charge and nor will it allow discharge.

You mustn't have any schedules enabled when you are using the 'older' charge times as schedules always override and reset them to 00:00.
Re: Carging EV from grid and not from battery
Wouldn't it be nice if "CT2" could be used on an EV charger to detect when it's used and automatically prevent the battery from discharging? I'm pretty sure that would be something relatively easy for FOX to implement in the firmware.
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