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Thursday night, when I came home and plugged my Karma into my Blink charger, instead of doing the screen showing the countdown to the charging start time, the screen stayed blank and the car started charging immediately, even though the charging cycle is not supposed to start until Midnight.
I rebooted the unit a couple of times with no change. Basically, my Blink has lost all of its smarts and has become a basic charger. It still charges the car just fine, but none of advanced features work any more.
Called Blink! and they think it will cost around $450 to fix it (warranty ran out in December). So I am wondering if it is worth repairing the unit or it is cheaper to just buy a newer, cheaper one, or to just keep using it as a basic charger until it completely dies and then replace it.
If I keep using it as is, I will be paying a few cents a KWH more because the charging is going to start before midnight, but it will take a long while to accrue $450 in extra electricity cost a few cents at a time. I have also seen newer, cheaper and more sophisticated EVSE equipment coming on the market recently.
What do you folks think?
I rebooted the unit a couple of times with no change. Basically, my Blink has lost all of its smarts and has become a basic charger. It still charges the car just fine, but none of advanced features work any more.
Called Blink! and they think it will cost around $450 to fix it (warranty ran out in December). So I am wondering if it is worth repairing the unit or it is cheaper to just buy a newer, cheaper one, or to just keep using it as a basic charger until it completely dies and then replace it.
If I keep using it as is, I will be paying a few cents a KWH more because the charging is going to start before midnight, but it will take a long while to accrue $450 in extra electricity cost a few cents at a time. I have also seen newer, cheaper and more sophisticated EVSE equipment coming on the market recently.
What do you folks think?