Scheduled charging broken for 120V chargers only?

[regentscholar]

Hi all,

I'm currently on PowerUp 4.2.1.2, and seeing a very strange charging bug.
Scheduled charging works for me when I'm plugged into a 240V charging plug (e.g. my Emporia EVSE), but if I switch to a standard 120V AC plug then only immediate charging mode is working.
If I do scheduled charging, then the Lightning briefly shows the delayed charging setting but then reports a charging fault and does not charge at all (in the scheduled window or otherwise).
As soon as I change the setting to charge immediately, then the truck charges just fine from 120V / 12A until it reaches full.

Anyone else seeing this bug as well?

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[RickLightning]

Not a bug. Always been this way.

 

[regentscholar]

Not a bug. Always been this way.

I mean I get it perhaps has always been that way... saying not a bug I don't agree with, unless there is some explicit FAQ documentation from Ford saying scheduled charging from 120V L1 AC chargers is officially unsupported? My Teslas do scheduled charging on both L1 and L2 AC chargers just fine.

 

[Maquis]

I think the the logic is that most 120V charge events aren’t capable of reaching the target level in 24 hours anyway, so why bother looking at a schedule?

 

[RickLightning]

I mean I get it perhaps has always been that way... saying not a bug I don't agree with, unless there is some explicit FAQ documentation from Ford saying scheduled charging from 120V L1 AC chargers is officially unsupported? My Teslas do scheduled charging on both L1 and L2 AC chargers just fine.

In 2018, I bought a Fusion Energi PHEV. We used 120v charging. Schedule didn't work. Ford put their EV group on it, for months... Same issue. And that car COULD reach the target in a few hours, did every night.

The reality is that the vehicle cannot compute the time correctly, so it just starts charging.

But, there is an easy, and cheap, solution. Buy a WiFi outlet. I used one for 3 years. Like this - https://amzn.to/44fXIkP

You can set a schedule via the app, and it works great. Car/truck cannot charge if there's no power.

We also use these outlets for a) lamps on "timers", b) window fan in bedroom to turn it on from downstairs before bed to cool the room, and then to turn off at 3AM when it's cooled down, c) control our outside light timer so we don't have to reset it twice a year, and listen to the ticking timer in the garage, d) turn on my subwoofer, and more...

 

[regentscholar]

I think we’re talking about different issues, the truck reports that there is a charging equipment fault when in the scheduled charging mode and connected to a 120V source. Not that it can’t figure out when to charge or to start or stop, it just never charges at all… if scheduled charging truly isn’t supported on L1 AC then fine, I get it it takes forever for the Lightning to charge on 120V- but the failure mode should be just to charge anyway if schedule is enabled, not to never charge.

 

[regentscholar]

Just noticed a related bug, if I charge on a 120V charger to anything below 100%, then immediately once charging is complete the truck reports a charger error

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