wsbca
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davewill said:You can't recrimp. Once it's done wrong, you have to cut off the ruined pins, and use new ones. For most of us mere mortals with ordinary tools/skills, that means buying a whole cable and J1772 handle assembly and replacing that. Even if I could find the pins and the right crimp tool, I know that's the only way I'd feel confident that I had a good result. And that's what Blink has their repair contractors do. Replace the whole cable assembly. I assume the old one goes back to the manufacturer for rework or recycling.wsbca said:Bleh...I guess no reason to call now for my similar issue (do you have to power cycle yours?). Perhaps the local contractor who installed it (they also did our solar system), who I assume Ecotality would have sent on the service call, would be willing to be contacted directly to recrimp ours for a reasonable fee. And worst case, if it dies, buy the new Bosch?
What's puzzling to me about this error (assuming we're all talking about the same thing - red screen every other charge or so that won't reset with a screen touch despite the displayed suggestion to do that) is that power cycling the whole unit resolves it for the next charge cycle, without touching anything else. That is to say, once I power it off and back on, I can plug in, get a dialog between the car and the Blink, and later on that night it charges fine. Anyone have any more insight into what's going on that would result in this regular, but somehow transient behavior? Seems to me if it was a flaky physical connection I wouldn't be able to get around it in such a repeatable way by just power cycling.