I am impressed by the sturdy design and robustness of the unit and cables provided. It also came in a nice carry bag to keep all parts tidy in the boot. Also the length of the cables should be sufficient in most instances, beating the shorter length of the BMW charger cables provided with the car. My greatest reason for upgrading the BMW charger to the MSI charger was the much shorter charging times. For whatever reason, BMW decided that its charger will only ever deliver 8A in Australia, NZ and Argentina. When using the 15A connection cable on the MSI charger, it delivers full current as expected (a 10A cable was also shipped that delivered 8A or 10A selectable.). The unit comes with a quick setup guide that instructs downloading and connection to the MSI aConnect app. The installation worked without a hitch. Because of the portable nature of the unit, the aConnect app does not allow full scheduling, instead it only allow delayed start of charging (without ability to specify the end time). This may work in most situations, but as I am on a EV plan with the power provider, I would have liked the option of fully scheduling start and end time. The charger has two push buttons responsible for selecting the current limit and delayed start time without using the aConnect app. While the current limit was easy to change, I could not work out how to set the timer with the information provided. However, in most cases I guess portable chargers will be used ad-hoc, so this is not a real problem. (An online manual can be found here: https://download-2.msi.com/archive/mnu_exe/EVcharger/MS-C806_V2.0_User%20Manual_English.pdf)
Follow-up · I've had no problems with the device since my last review. Cable flex is difficult to judge as they are using thicker conductors which naturally adds to stiffness but I liked that in the first place. The charging current is shown on the device but obviously not the state of EV charge
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