[ians]

We (or largely my wife) run a B&B here in the alps and we offer charging to guests. We actually had a subsidy from the canton to install it for this reason. It's been there for a year and this is the first time someone with a Polestar has stayed. Nice morning for a photo!

A very minor, and inconsequential, puzzle is that they plugged in and got 11kW while I think I can reliably say we consistently get 10.7kW I've noticed Teslas getting 11.1Kw with most other cars around 10kW. It's the same cable which is locked to the charger so there's no obvious reason for it. I shall loose exactly no sleep over it

 

[arne]

Do we get a forum discount?

 

[krheinwald]

We (or largely my wife) run a B&B here in the alps and we offer charging to guests.

I am confident the admin would not object if you posted a small add in the 'for sale' auction for your charger with attached accomodation

 

[ians]

I think it’s handy for people to have available, those guys left the polestar on charge and went skiing so they’re all good to go for their trip home. From what guests say other properties often have broken chargers but this is ours so we know it works We ask if people have an EV so we can aware if there's a scheduling problem but it seems to work so far and if it becomes a problem we'll probably install another charger.

 

[Plstr]

Nice! Now I know where to stay for my next mountain bike trip in the area

 

[kyledag500]

Long range vs standard range perhaps?

 

[ians]

Long range vs standard range perhaps?

nope, the visitor has plus, pilot and performance but the same LRDM. And both use the same cable. My guess is the AC charger is a different version. Trivial but intriguing

 

[ians]

Nice! Now I know where to stay for my next mountain bike trip in the area

famously we just don't have the terrain...

we're all electric

 

[Plstr]

we're all electric

That in my world is called cheating

 

[pedroleite]

Not easy to measure if you don’t exactly know what you are seeing, but could be one of two issues, there is a known resistance placed on the Proximity Pilot pin on a Type2 charger, like our plugs in Europe. The difference you are showing is from the full 3 phase 16 Amps to 15.5 Amps per phase, if the measured value is measured a little low would limit the car from pulling that value. Second it could be the measure within your car or charger, when you measure are you reading the car or the charger, I think the charger as you shown Teslas values too, would scratch that to measuring error.

 

[ians]

oddly there's a footnote to that. When the guests arrived and plugged in they got a steady 11kW for three hours and then their charge limit of 80% cut in. That's what I'd seen when I made my comment.

But they left it plugged in and reset the charge limit to 90% at which point it resumed at 10.6kW. I'd not realised that until I just glanced at the charger log. (This is both the snapshot/real-time value and the logged curve).

The charger log discards the detailed charge after a week or two but I can see on longer sessions, ie the lower initial SOC, get about 0.1-0.2 kW more. But mine still never gets 11kW. Based on that I might guess charging from 20% with a limit at 80% might be the difference which I could test if I really wanted