The other thing I forgot to mention is we are going LiFePO4 for our storage bank, so we can be more flexible with SoC there as well, which gives more flexibility to the overall system - plus the round trip efficiency in and back out of the storage battery is better overall for when we need to...
The commute the car is used on is only about 50 miles round trip and the work schedule is a rotating afternoons/days/every other weekend mishmash of terrible corporate planning - so it affords more opportunity to be home for more sunlight hours than a 9-5 might. On afternoon days we can keep...
I'm just getting ready to setup an off-grid system and I'm using the OpenEVSE which has the same feature of charge rate control. The car will respond to any charge rate change command from the EVSE and can be varied throughout the charge cycle and/or paused. This is required by the J1772...