<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Steve,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I see:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">OVMS# charge cooldown</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Cooldown has been started</span></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649473622) ovms-server-v2: Send MP-0 PIRange - Charging|247.0V/1.0A|SOC: 23.0%|Ideal range: 69M|Est. range: 64M|ODO: 53271.4M|CAC: 187.0Ah|SOH: 70%|</span></font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649500622) v-teslaroadster: Cooldown: 0 cycles 33C/31C (with 60 minute(s) remaining)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649560622) v-teslaroadster: Cooldown: 0 cycles 32C/31C (with 59 minute(s) remaining)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649620622) v-teslaroadster: Cooldown: 0 cycles 32C/31C (with 58 minute(s) remaining)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649637002) ovms-server-v2: Incoming Msg: MP-0 Z1<br class="">I (649637002) ovms-server-v2: One or more peers have connected</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649637622) ovms-server-v2: Send MP-0 S24.0,M,238,32,charging,range,70,65,70,2,0,0,5,1,3,0,0,0,184.42,274,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-4.15,0.00,59<br class="">I (649637622) ovms-server-v2: Send MP-0 D93,0,5,35,32,32,1965,532713,0,33239,21,2,1,1,12.73,0,12.6,128,35,0,0</span><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649680622) v-teslaroadster: Cooldown: 0 cycles 31C/31C (with 57 minute(s) remaining)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649680622) v-teslaroadster: Cooldown: Cycle 0 cooldown completed</span></font></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I (649879822) ovms-server-v2: Send MP-0 PAStandard - Charge Stopped|SOC: 17.0%|Ideal range: 41M|Est. range: 38M|ODO: 53271.4M|CAC: 184.4Ah|SOH: 59%|</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>It seems that the battery was at 33C when cooldown started. Took about 3 minutes for it to come down to 31C and for cooldown to then stop.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Not sure about the 32A. It certainly seems that way. The code has:</div><div><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">void OvmsVehicleTeslaRoadster::Ticker1(uint32_t ticker)</span></font></div></div><div><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> …</span></font></div><div><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> if ((m_cooldown_running)&&(StandardMetrics.ms_v_charge_inprogress->AsBool()))</span></font></div><div><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> …</span></font></div><div><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> if (m_cooldown_recycle_ticker > 0)</span></font></div><div><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> …</span></font></div><div><div><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">if (StandardMetrics.ms_v_charge_climit->AsInt() != 10)</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> {</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> // 10A charge when cooling down</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> ESP_LOGI(TAG, "Cooldown: Cycle %d fix charge current to 10A",m_cooldown_cycles_done);</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> CommandSetChargeCurrent(10);</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono"; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><font face="Andale Mono" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> }</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>That should continually try to change the charge current, so long as it is not 10A (while doing a cooldown, charge in progress, etc).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Your car is a 1.5, right? Perhaps we have charge limit incorrect for that model?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I think the simplest would be to be able to get into the car remotely during a cooldown. Just OVMS server v2 should be fine. Probably worth setting 'xtr cooldown.templimit 25’ to it doesn’t stop too quickly, then arrange a time when you can start this, and I can monitor remotely. Need to see how all those metrics change and what other messages are produced.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards, Mark.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Oct 2018, at 2:04 PM, Stephen Casner <<a href="mailto:casner@acm.org" class="">casner@acm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">After several weeks delay, I had a chance to try "charge cooldown"<br class="">again after driving 200 miles to return home today (after a very nice<br class="">drive yesterday down the rugged California coast Hwy 1 with the top off and<br class="">clear road ahead 90% of the time).<br class=""><br class="">As requested, with the charge cable plugged in and not charging (which<br class="">means the VDS is in the state of waiting for timed charge) I connected<br class="">the USB console cable and issued the "charge cooldown" command. This<br class="">did cause charging to start in Range mode, but the current was the<br class="">full 32A available in my garage, not 12A as I thought was the design<br class="">for the cooldown procedure. The log is attached; it looks like the<br class="">cooldown was deemed completed after a few minutes, but then the charge<br class="">mode switched back to Standard and charging continued at 32A for<br class="">another few minutes until I stopped it with the button on the VDS.<br class="">I'll let charging continue and complete during the normal timed charge<br class="">period.<br class=""><br class=""> -- Steve<br class=""><br class="">On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Stephen Casner wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Mark,<br class=""><br class="">Not to worry. This is not a critical problem for me.<br class=""><br class="">I did find 'vehicle status' but nothing in the output conveyed to me<br class="">whether cooldown was in progress. Sorry I didn't do a screen capture.<br class=""><br class="">The car was plugged in but not charging when I gave the 'charge<br class="">cooldown' command, and the charge start time set on the VDS had not<br class="">been reached, so I don't know why it would have been in charging<br class="">state.<br class=""><br class="">I will try again with my laptop connected to the console rather than<br class="">just trying to run this from the web UI with my phone. Since the day<br class="">of the previous attempt it's been cool enough here and I have not<br class="">driven far enough for the battery temperature to get above 31. I<br class="">could try adjusting the templimit.<br class=""><br class=""> -- Steve<br class=""><br class="">On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Steve,<br class=""><br class="">Sorry for the delay in reply. I have been overwhelmed with work…<br class=""><br class="">You can check the status of cooldown with ‘vehicle status’. In addition, an info-level log line is output once every minute while cooldown is in progress.<br class=""><br class="">The current roadster implementation was copied from v2. It is largely untested (beyond simulation on my bench). When the cooldown command is given, it looks to see if a charge is currently in progress and if so remembers the details of that charge (mode, current, etc). After cooldown has completed, it will resume any previous charge that was in progress. So, I think if you want to do a cooldown without a subsequent charge, then the sequence would be to stop charge then cooldown.<br class=""><br class="">Cooldown does use two parameters:<br class=""><br class="">xtr cooldown.timelimit 60<br class="">xtr cooldown.templimit 31<br class=""><br class="">If the cooldown has been running more than cooldown.timelimit, or the battery temperature falls below cooldown.templimit, it will terminate the cooldown.<br class=""><br class="">Can you try again, from a plugged in but not charging state, and check ‘vehicle status’ and the info logs to see progress?<br class=""><br class="">Regards, Mark.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 11 Sep 2018, at 8:47 AM, Stephen Casner <<a href="mailto:casner@acm.org" class="">casner@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Last evening I returned home from a trip and decided to try the<br class="">"charge cooldown" command to cool the battery on my Roadster. I had<br class="">not tried it before, and I think it may not have worked correctly.<br class=""><br class="">I issued the "charge cooldown" command using the shell page of the web<br class="">UI. The response was a line indicating that the cooldown had started,<br class="">and I got a notification through server v2 that the car was charging<br class="">in Range mode. But later the status page in the iPhone app indicated<br class="">that the car was charging in Standard mode at 32A, which is the full<br class="">rate from my EVSE. Over the course of half an hour the SOC increased<br class="">from 42% to 50%, at which point I manually stopped the charge.<br class=""><br class="">I thought the cooldown procedure was supposed to charge in Range mode<br class="">at 12A and not significantly add to the battery charge level. I have<br class="">not studied the cooldown code, but after a quick look I see that the<br class="">procedure is more complicated than one might expect, stepping through<br class="">multiple cycles as needed.<br class=""><br class="">Did I do something incorrectly? Or do these symptoms indicate that<br class="">there might be a problem with the implementation?<br class=""><br class="">While the charge was in progress I blindly tried a "charge status"<br class="">command hoping that it would tell me about the progress of cooldown,<br class="">but alas that subcommand does not exist.<br class=""><br class=""> -- Steve<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">OvmsDev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:OvmsDev@lists.openvehicles.com" class="">OvmsDev@lists.openvehicles.com</a><br class="">http://lists.openvehicles.com/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><span id="cid:1CFED8CD-A975-4E72-94E5-E78C65DCC724"><cooldown.txt></span>_______________________________________________<br class="">OvmsDev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:OvmsDev@lists.openvehicles.com" class="">OvmsDev@lists.openvehicles.com</a><br class="">http://lists.openvehicles.com/mailman/listinfo/ovmsdev<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>