Sounds like you might have one cell a bit low. Has the battery been discharged to less than 10.5V at any time ?

7 hours ago, unofix said:

Sounds like you might have one cell a bit low. Has the battery been discharged to less than 10.5V at any time ?

No it hasn't but I'm often told that I'm a few cells short from time to time 🤔

Finally got round to putting the charger on the Focus today.

4.5 hours.  11.7v to 13.6v.  Only 2 bars solid, third flashing.  Can't see any colours on the screen.

Will have to try and give it another few hours next weekend!

2 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

...Can't see any colours on the screen.

Will have to try and give it another few hours next weekend!

Tom, shade your hand over the screen, the 'colour' is a subtle back glow of the whole LCD display, when charging, it's red, when done, it's green. If you are staring in sunshine, you'll never see the difference...

2 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Finally got round to putting the charger on the Focus today.

4.5 hours.  11.7v to 13.6v.  Only 2 bars solid, third flashing.  Can't see any colours on the screen.

Will have to try and give it another few hours next weekend!

Did you have it on standard or winter charge Tom ? 

The first time I used the maypole it charges (automatic) for 5 hours before going green.

the next charge was about half as long. 

55 minutes ago, Wino said:

Did you have it on standard or winter charge Tom ? 

Winter I think.  I didn't know that could be changed though, thought it was part of the auto-select?

3 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Winter I think.  I didn't know that could be changed though, thought it was part of the auto-select?

Don't sweat it Tom, it'll work it out...

17 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

Don't sweat it Tom, it'll work it out...

Yeah, I did read that before.  It doesn't look like you can manually select the winter mode though?

2 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Yeah, I did read that before.  It doesn't look like you can manually select the winter mode though?

You can initially press the 'mode' button and it will cycle through the options. TBH, I don't ever remember doing that and my battery has always bee safely charged!

It’s automatic……

4 hours ago, Andyr55 said:

It’s automatic……

"Automatic"

That means it is "Reactive", not "Proactive"

Old Joke...

"We are now flying at 30,000ft, the aircraft is in Automatic Pilot, and nothing can go wrong... go wrong, go wrong, go wrong....

16 hours ago, StephenFord said:

You can initially press the 'mode' button and it will cycle through the options.

Seems like a lot of effort...  

3 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

Seems like a lot of effort...  

Not much more than pressing the "Lock" button on the drivers door as we haven't got "Auto lock" on the Focus 😆