My 2024 Trance E+3 came with a monstrously-sized so-called “Smart” battery charger. It has a momentary-contact button you can push that enables maintaining the battery at 60% charge for storage. This would be a nice feature if it was actually implemented in a way that worked.
Setting up the feature is fine, just press the button after connecting the charger to the bike & mains power and the button lights up to let you know that the charger is in maintenance mode. The problem occurs if your home happens to experience a power failure. When the power is restored, the “smart” charger forgets that it was last in maintenance mode, and proceeds to charge the bike to 100%.
With all the other logic in this charger, I can’t imagine that it would’ve been prohibitively expensive to retain the state of this button between power cycles.
Setting up the feature is fine, just press the button after connecting the charger to the bike & mains power and the button lights up to let you know that the charger is in maintenance mode. The problem occurs if your home happens to experience a power failure. When the power is restored, the “smart” charger forgets that it was last in maintenance mode, and proceeds to charge the bike to 100%.
With all the other logic in this charger, I can’t imagine that it would’ve been prohibitively expensive to retain the state of this button between power cycles.
