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***UPDATE***
Just a few minutes after I last posted here, while still monitoring my RAV4 EV in the driveway still plugged in and totally undisturbed, it resumed charging all by itself. It resumed at ~9:22am, 6 hours after the previously completed charge! At first, it spiked quite high to over 6kW, then varied irratically for several minutes, while slowly dropping down, eventually leveling off at around 600 watts. This belated charging event finally ended at 10:08am for a total duration of 30 minutes.

I went out to listen to the car while it was still at 600 watts to hear if anything like a coolant pump or fan was running somewhere, but I could not hear anything. Both LEDs inside the back window above the charge port were ON initially, then turned OFF about the same time the 600W charging was still in progress. My EVSE indicated it was in the active "charging" mode during this 30 minute period.

Now, look again at my updated HEM graph (link given again below) and you can see what I am describing. Apparently there really is post-charge, resumed charge balancing - top off event that generally happens well after the first, or main, charging event. In this case, the gap between the two charging events was nearly 6 hours from the end of the much longer main charge to the start of the 30 minute topping charge.

https://www.enerati.com/Electricity/ConfigDashboard.aspx?param1=NzM0&param2=NTU0&param3=ODAwMDAxMDAxMDAwNDAwMjkwMDAwMDAyMDAwMjAwMDA=

Oh and btw, Entunes now indicates my range is 120 miles (bumped up by 1 mile during the topping charge) and my departure time is still scheduled for 10am, which is was I last set it to be. It also says my last charge completed at 9:41am, but according to my HEM it did not actually complete until 10:08am. So, this again PROVES the scheduler is faulty, or at least confused, because of the seemingly randomness of this balancing/topping charge event. Thus, the car cannot really tell when a "Charge Now" or scheduled charge actually ends, at least not accurately, and neither can any of us as owner/drivers of the RAV4 EV!   :?

<blockquote data-quote="Dsinned" data-source="post: 1397" data-attributes="member: 71">***UPDATE***Just a few minutes after I last posted here, while still monitoring my RAV4 EV in the driveway still plugged in and totally undisturbed, it resumed charging all by itself. It resumed at ~9:22am, 6 hours after the previously completed charge!&nbsp; At first, it spiked quite high to over 6kW, then varied irratically for several minutes, while slowly dropping down, eventually leveling off at around 600 watts.&nbsp; This belated charging event finally ended at 10:08am for a total duration of 30 minutes.&nbsp;&nbsp; I went out to listen to the car while it was still at 600 watts to hear if anything like a coolant pump or fan was running somewhere, but I could not hear anything.&nbsp; Both LEDs inside the back window above the charge port were ON initially, then turned OFF about the same time the 600W charging was still in progress.&nbsp; My EVSE indicated it was in the active &quot;charging&quot; mode during this 30 minute period.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, look again at my updated HEM graph (link given again below) and you can see what I am describing.&nbsp; Apparently there really is&nbsp; post-charge, resumed charge balancing - top off event that generally happens well after the first, or main, charging event.&nbsp; In this case, the gap between the two charging events was nearly 6 hours from the end of the much longer main charge to the start of the 30 minute topping charge.https://www.enerati.com/Electricity/ConfigDashboard.aspx?param1=NzM0&amp;param2=NTU0&amp;param3=ODAwMDAxMDAxMDAwNDAwMjkwMDAwMDAyMDAwMjAwMDA=Oh and btw, Entunes now indicates my range is 120 miles (bumped up by 1 mile during the topping charge) and my departure time is still scheduled for 10am, which is was I last set it to be.&nbsp; It also says my last charge completed at 9:41am, but according to my HEM it did not actually complete until 10:08am.&nbsp; So, this again PROVES the scheduler is faulty, or at least confused, because of the seemingly randomness of this balancing/topping charge event.&nbsp; Thus, the car cannot really tell when a &quot;Charge Now&quot; or scheduled charge actually ends, at least not accurately, and neither can any of us as owner/drivers of the RAV4 EV!&nbsp;&nbsp; :?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dsinned, post: 1397, member: 71"] [size=7]***UPDATE***[/size] Just a few minutes after I last posted here, while still monitoring my RAV4 EV in the driveway still plugged in and totally undisturbed, it resumed charging all by itself. It resumed at ~9:22am, 6 hours after the previously completed charge! At first, it spiked quite high to over 6kW, then varied irratically for several minutes, while slowly dropping down, eventually leveling off at around 600 watts. This belated charging event finally ended at 10:08am for a total duration of 30 minutes. I went out to listen to the car while it was still at 600 watts to hear if anything like a coolant pump or fan was running somewhere, but I could not hear anything. Both LEDs inside the back window above the charge port were ON initially, then turned OFF about the same time the 600W charging was still in progress. My EVSE indicated it was in the active "charging" mode during this 30 minute period. Now, look again at my updated HEM graph (link given again below) and you can see what I am describing. Apparently there really is post-charge, resumed charge balancing - top off event that generally happens well after the first, or main, charging event. In this case, the gap between the two charging events was nearly 6 hours from the end of the much longer main charge to the start of the 30 minute topping charge. https://www.enerati.com/Electricity/ConfigDashboard.aspx?param1=NzM0&param2=NTU0&param3=ODAwMDAxMDAxMDAwNDAwMjkwMDAwMDAyMDAwMjAwMDA= Oh and btw, Entunes now indicates my range is 120 miles (bumped up by 1 mile during the topping charge) and my departure time is still scheduled for 10am, which is was I last set it to be. It also says my last charge completed at 9:41am, but according to my HEM it did not actually complete until 10:08am. So, this again PROVES the scheduler is faulty, or at least confused, because of the seemingly randomness of this balancing/topping charge event. Thus, the car cannot really tell when a "Charge Now" or scheduled charge actually ends, at least not accurately, and neither can any of us as owner/drivers of the RAV4 EV! :? [/QUOTE]

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