TWO i MiEV's in One Family!

[MLucas]

Neil, I thought of a few more items on the remote and temperature control. The L2 EVSE works better with the remote than the L1 EVSE. With the heat, the car is only mildly warm after 20-30 minutes on the L1 EVSE that came with the car. The car is nuclear warm when I use the remote with the L2 EVSE. I find that Defrost works better than the Heat option, I just use Defrost all the time now and don't mess with the HEAT setting on the remote. The A/C works really well in the summer time, except the family leaves the doors open and there goes the A/C cooled interior and I have to start all over again. Trying to train the family is actually the hardest part of living with an EV. :lol:

 

[Don]

. . . . I thought of a few more items on the remote and temperature control. The L2 EVSE works better with the remote than the L1 EVSE. With the heat, the car is only mildly warm after 20-30 minutes on the L1 EVSE that came with the car. The car is nuclear warm when I use the remote with the L2 EVSE.

Yes, I noticed this too. I *think* the pre-heat function limits the amount of heat to the amount of power the EVSE can supply, so it never dips into the battery power to pre-heat the car. So, with the OEM EVSE you're limited to only 960 watts of heat, if your L1 EVSE is capable of 12 amps, bump that up to 1440 watts (about the same as a portable household heater) but with an L2 EVSE you get 3,000 watts or more of pre-heat, which gets the car real toasty after only a few minutes - 'Nuclear' is an accurate statement!

For the record, both my EVSE Upgrade modified OEM unit and my home-built Open EVSE work correctly with the car's remote - No 'dance' required to get the pre-heat to function

Don