Charge port lights

[mknox]

Now that is weird. The method of opening the charge port door shouldn't make a difference to anything else.

Yeah, it took me a while to figure out what was going on (described here). Using a J1772 charger worked fine (I'm assuming because I have to use the screen to open the port) but the UMC would not unless I used the screen to open the port.

 

[pdxgibby]

I've read the manual on charging a few times and I understand the expected behavior -- but I'm seeing something different.

I plug in my car when I returned home at the end of the day, but I have scheduled charging set to begin at, say 10:15pm. The instrument cluster confirms the scheduled charge time, as does the Tesla Model S iPhone app. The color of the ring around the plug turns blue upon insertion. All good and as expected.

Tonight I had to run an errand at 8:30pm and I went out into the garage, but the charge port was rapidly flashing green as if it was taking a charge. The UMC was also showing that it was charging. Looking at the instrument cluster, it still confirmed that charging was scheduled to begin at 10:15pm and it didn't actually appear to be charging based on the current range. It appeared that it wasn't actually charging.

Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas of what it could be?

 

[jerry33]

I've read the manual on charging a few times and I understand the expected behavior -- but I'm seeing something different.

I plug in my car when I returned home at the end of the day, but I have scheduled charging set to begin at, say 10:15pm. The instrument cluster confirms the scheduled charge time, as does the Tesla Model S iPhone app. The color of the ring around the plug turns blue upon insertion. All good and as expected.

Tonight I had to run an errand at 8:30pm and I went out into the garage, but the charge port was rapidly flashing green as if it was taking a charge. The UMC was also showing that it was charging. Looking at the instrument cluster, it still confirmed that charging was scheduled to begin at 10:15pm and it didn't actually appear to be charging based on the current range. It appeared that it wasn't actually charging.

Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas of what it could be?

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