Charging Issue

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Leafy green

Discussion Starter · 7 d ago

Hi all,

Hope you are all doing well.

New to the EV world and have a few questions.

So I have purchased a 2nd hand 24kWh 63 reg Tekna.

The person who sold the car demonstrated how to use the granny charge at his house and the car was charging fine.

I wanted to top up the car as I have only 20 miles range, I went to the local Asda which has a BP Pulse charging post, signed up and credited my BP Pulse account, however, when I put the type1 to type2 cable on to the car the 3 blue charging light indicators ALL started flashing and a constant beeping noise, the car would charge.

I have read on this forum about a bent metal pin on the cable handle, looking at the cable and the metal handle looks fine.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on what I’m doing wrong please?

I’m waiting for a charging socket to be installed at home

Thank you for taking the time to read this post

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Hitstirrer

· #2 · 7 d ago

This is a case of eliminating the issue. If the 'granny' unit works OK then it's probably not the car. So it can be either the cable or the BP Pulse unit causing the problem. The easiest way to eliminate the cable is to find another early Leaf owner to try their T2 to T1 cable in a different place, and vice-versa. I have never found BP Pulse to be reliable either so the issue could be there - or perhaps your registration and account has glitched. Try your cable at a different outlet from that Asda one, or better still at someone's home wall box. This just needs a bit of logical testing to track down where the issue lies. Meanwhile, just use the granny cable until you have sorted this out.

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Leafy green

Discussion Starter · #3 · 7 d ago

Hitstirrer said:
This is a case of eliminating the issue. If the 'granny' unit works OK then it's probably not the car. So it can be either the cable or the BP Pulse unit causing the problem. The easiest way to eliminate the cable is to find another early Leaf owner to try their T2 to T1 cable in a different place, and vice-versa. I have never found BP Pulse to be reliable either so the issue could be there - or perhaps your registration and account has glitched. Try your cable at a different outlet from that Asda one, or better still at someone's home wall box. This just needs a bit of logical testing to track down where the issue lies. Meanwhile, just use the granny cable until you have sorted this out.

Thank you for the reply

this was my next point of call, don’t know any other Nissan Leaf owners so I was going togo to the nearest Nissan Dealer to use there cable.

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Hitstirrer

· #4 · 7 d ago

Leafy green said:
........this was my next point of call, don’t know any other Nissan Leaf owners so I was going to go to the nearest Nissan Dealer to use their cable.

If it is the cable there are many for sale on eBay because the type 1 socket in your car has been discontinued and people are selling theirs as they move to T2 to T2 cables.

This outfit seems to have an excess stock for the same reason and are keen to sell at a big discount to get rid.

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Others are private sellers or other companies dumping old stock. Scroll down the eBay listings to see them.

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divenal

· #5 · 7 d ago

Leafy green said:
this was my next point of call, don’t know any other Nissan Leaf owners so I was going togo to the nearest Nissan Dealer to use there cable.

If you have a big Tesco near you, you could try their podpoint chargepoints - no need to sign up for the sake of testing, since it will give 15 minutes charging without registering (though possibly very slowly).

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Hitstirrer

· #6 · 7 d ago

It would seem that this is a fairly common issue with older Leaf using the type 1 plug.

Three flashing blue lights, 3 beeps. Charging problem - My Nissan Leaf Forum

www.mynissanleaf.com

And as such might be easily resolved by using a new cable.

Unless, of course, it's the car socket that has developed this poor connection issue. Although doubtful if the 13 amp 3 pin granny lead works.

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Leafy green

Discussion Starter · #7 · 7 d ago

Hitstirrer said:
If it is the cable there are many for sale on eBay because the type 1 socket in your car has been discontinued and people are selling theirs as they move to T2 to T2 cables.

This outfit seems to have an excess stock for the same reason and are keen to sell at a big discount to get rid.

Big Sales - Type 1 to Type 2 EV Electric Car - Charging Cable, 5m, 32Amp 7.4KW | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Big Sales - Type 1 to Type 2 EV Electric Car - Charging Cable, 5m, 32Amp 7.4KW at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products.

www.ebay.co.uk

Others are private sellers or other companies dumping old stock. Scroll down the eBay listings to see them.

Thank you will definitely have a look.

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ACDCEV

· #8 · 6 d ago

Don't forget that if the cars charging timer has been set, you have to to turn that off before the car will charge.

Look at the buttons to the right of the steering wheel.
The third one to the right of the steering wheel has a drawing of a charge lead with a clock & OFF on it.
Press that, if the charge timer has been set it will override the timer & start charging.

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Leafy green

Discussion Starter · #9 · 6 d ago

Thank you all for your help, this matter has now been solved, I went to another BP Pulse and the charging started working so it was the charging pod in Asda that wasn’t working.

Thank you all for you help

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Hitstirrer

· #10 · 6 d ago

Leafy green said:
Thank you all for your help, this matter has now been solved, I went to another BP Pulse and the charging started working so it was the charging pod in Asda that wasn’t working.

I did mention that I have always found BP Pulse to be unreliable. You were lucky to find that second one working tbh. I never plan any trip that involves a stop at one. Not even for plan B.

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