1st let me say I don't have Leaf Spy, or at least not yet.
My car came from the 2nd owner with both the 120 volt trickle charge cable and a Primecom adjustable rate charger that has input limits from 10 amps to 32 amps 240 volt. (anything over 27 amp input is more than the 2015's 6.6 charger)
I've been playing around with charging times and input current, and see almost no change in usable range. For the last week or so I have the charge timer set for 1hr 50min, and the current set for 24 amps (5.75 Kw) input. Although the dash says 3 hr to charge it says 100% charged with this setting (around 7.5 Kwh used per cycle). I normally return home with upper 20's-low 30's miles remaining. One day I took it out until I was down to around 10 miles, next morning it showed 100% charged and 56 miles of range! It can't be. Still the car did its normal run and returned home with about the same miles remaining, and again this AM I showed 71 miles range.
My next plan is to drop the input to 20 amps while still keeping the 1hr 50 min time, and see what it shows. It has never shown less than 100% charge regardless of what I do.
I'd like to get it down to 80% or so on a normal charge during the week and then have one night slow charge to 100% to equalize. Set the input at 10 amps (2.4 Kw) and let the BCM turn the charger off when it says it is done.
It doesn't seam I can use any of dash gauges to judge percent of battery charge.
My car came from the 2nd owner with both the 120 volt trickle charge cable and a Primecom adjustable rate charger that has input limits from 10 amps to 32 amps 240 volt. (anything over 27 amp input is more than the 2015's 6.6 charger)
I've been playing around with charging times and input current, and see almost no change in usable range. For the last week or so I have the charge timer set for 1hr 50min, and the current set for 24 amps (5.75 Kw) input. Although the dash says 3 hr to charge it says 100% charged with this setting (around 7.5 Kwh used per cycle). I normally return home with upper 20's-low 30's miles remaining. One day I took it out until I was down to around 10 miles, next morning it showed 100% charged and 56 miles of range! It can't be. Still the car did its normal run and returned home with about the same miles remaining, and again this AM I showed 71 miles range.
My next plan is to drop the input to 20 amps while still keeping the 1hr 50 min time, and see what it shows. It has never shown less than 100% charge regardless of what I do.
I'd like to get it down to 80% or so on a normal charge during the week and then have one night slow charge to 100% to equalize. Set the input at 10 amps (2.4 Kw) and let the BCM turn the charger off when it says it is done.
It doesn't seam I can use any of dash gauges to judge percent of battery charge.