OK, we are comparing apples and oranges and because bananas can turn brown, they are not allowed. Seriously - what a confusion about simple words and unreliable processes.
Trickle charger: apparently the Level 1 charger (which is the only type of charging that I use on a daily basis) is called "trickle charger" by some sales guy who rather sells fast chargers. The car is perfectly fine with that "trickle" charger, as long as you make sure to regularly charge till it is completely full, so it can reset its inaccurate measurement. No difference between fully charging on level 1 or 2, just get it full and it will be fine. Then some (confused by the term trickle charge) point out that Lithium has a serious problem with being (over-) charged on a trickle - but this appears to have nothing in common with the original issue of the car manufacturer advising against their own level 1 charger, instead of simply saying that the car must regularly be fully charged, whether on level 1 or level 2, so maintain whatever accuracy is present on the guess-o-meter... Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Ed Blackmond via EV Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 5:06 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Trickle Charging a Nissan? On Wed, 3 Jun 2015, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > I can see their point. It simply is not worth it to degrade the > accuracy of the guess-o-meter by encouraging trickle charging after > every use and have to put up with daily driver dissatisfaction with > the gauge, than it is to sacrifice a little long term life on an 8 year > battery. Not worth degrading the accuracy of the guess-o-meter? I would say that it is not possible to degrade the accuracy of the guess-o-meter. The only thing worse than instrumentation that doesn't work is instrumentation that presents incorrect information. There are two numbers to be concerned about: how far the car can go under optimal conditions and how far the car can go the way it is being driven at the current time. The guess-o-meter provides neither number. Ed _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
