[Chiefy]

If you’re charging from a three pin plug it will take slightly longer than 5 hours so because of that, as soon as you plug it in, it will start charging as your timed schedule is not long enough. Set to it to start at 12 and finish at 6 and then it will charge as scheduled. The same happened to me when I first got the car. If you’ve changed the schedule to longer and it still does it then press the left hand button next to the plug once. That will solve it.

 

[Chiefy]

Thank you but that is not it because at the moment I am 80% charged and the screen on the car is telling me that the charge will start at 12am and finish at 1-03 am. Initially I did schedule 6 hours and it made no difference.
I will try the button you mention I didn't try that because I thought that button overrode the preferred time settings. There is no information on that in the user manual.

Ah I was assuming that you were charging from empty. In that case the left hand button should sort it. If you plug it in and it starts charging straight away then pressing it once should revert it to the schedule. After that it should charge as per the schedule every time in that saved location without having to press the button again. if you do charge from empty then you’ll need a 6 hour schedule. I agree the manual isn’t very clear and I wasn’t sure whether it was ok to press that button with the charge lead plugged in and live, but it is. If you plug it in anywhere else then you’ll need to save the new location otherwise just charge it normally. It does work really well once you’ve got it sussed.

 

[Chiefy]

Hi Chiefy,

Yes that seems to work now, played with it and if you have set charging times that button switches to charge immediately. Conversely, as you have suggested if it is set to immediate charging, pressing the button reverts to preferred settings, that have been programmed in. I wouldn't normally charge it if the car was at 80% but I was just trying things out.
I will experiment with it when battery is at 0% I was rather hoping it would charge for 5 hours and then just stop at whatever the charge was at that time after 5 hours, but as you say it is more complicated than that.
Thanks for your help.

I know some folk use timer switches but there really is no need. Once you suss the scheduling it works well and mine has faultlessly. I also thought it would stop at the “5 hour” mark. If I’m charging from 0% with my scheduling set at 12 midnight to 6 am, it takes about 5hrs 20mins for a full charge so 20 mins of more expensive electricity which isn’t significant. An alternative is to set the maximum charge to say 90% (or thereabouts) to stay within the 5 hours off peak. The only issue I have is that when I use scheduled charging, the charging history record in the App hardly ever works. If I charge using normal anytime plug in, that records correctly every time. I haven’t worked that one out yet. It’s not critical but it would be nice to have that working properly in the Ford Pass App. I’ve sent feedback but it never gets answered.

 

[Chiefy]

I I’ve tried the charger timer for the 1st time. Set up was fine, connected and used the timer button, app said waiting to charge, should have started at midnight but didn’t, I changed the setting over on the app at 2am to charge when plugged in and it worked. Can’t find out why the scheduled charger didn’t kick in? Any ideas?

I’m assuming that you’d set it up as a saved location on the car via sync 3. If it was set correctly then I’m not sure why it wouldn’t have started at midnight. When I park up on my drive a message always comes up “will charge at 12am (midnight) that evening.

 

[Chiefy]

I I’ve tried the charger timer for the 1st time. Set up was fine, connected and used the timer button, app said waiting to charge, should have started at midnight but didn’t, I changed the setting over on the app at 2am to charge when plugged in and it worked. Can’t find out why the scheduled charger didn’t kick in? Any ideas?

Do you get this message when you park up at your house where you’ll charge it?