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Reliability of the Efacec FCPs

  • 31-08-2016 11:09pm
    #1
    BoatMad
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    I find it strange that newly commissioned Efacec FCP units are failing like flies, units installed 2-3 months ago ( Gorey , Applegreen cullimore) have failed in recent days and elsewhere as well


    something is strange , from what I understand is the costs of these units , Id expect , as the ESB would, that failures would be few and far between , I mean its not like any of these units are particularly heavily used


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    Is that why so many FCPs/rapids are down at the moment? My wife recently drove to Kilkenny and it was pain in the neck to plot a route with working chargers.

    The EFACECs have been around for a while, like the one at LUAS park and ride in Sandyford which is now down. Maybe some recent model of BEV is not compatible with them and they go down because of that like what used to happen with Zoe and standard posts? Alternatively it could a something like bad firmware if they were recently updated.

    It's a worry alright if the existing infra cannot be kept running.


  • #3
    cros13
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    In some cases it's a DC breaker tripping low.... like 10-20A.
    Other units are having software issues.

    I had 3 efacec rapids in a row down today. Lusk, Clonshaugh and Dublin Airport.
    Portlaoise has been down for two weeks now.

    The only rapids I've found to be unfailingly reliable are the ABBs, but the ABBs are more expensive than the efacecs and servicing is offered by ABB, which Carra wasn't happy with.


  • #4
    BoatMad
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    cros13 wrote: »
    In some cases it's a DC breaker tripping low.... like 10-20A.
    Other units are having software issues.

    I had 3 efacec rapids in a row down today. Lusk, Clonshaugh and Dublin Airport.
    Portlaoise has been down for two weeks now.

    The only rapids I've found to be unfailingly reliable are the ABBs, but the ABBs are more expensive than the efacecs and servicing is offered by ABB, which Carra wasn't happy with.

    considering , ecars have replaced many FCPS with effaced triples , this is very worrying and shows very bad engineering decisions being taken


  • #5
    cros13
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    On the plus side, the efacecs are far more reliable than the DBTs.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Which ones were the DBT's ? were they the Nissan ones that sometimes took forever to get parts for ?


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  • #7
    cros13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭cros13


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Which ones were the DBT's ? were they the Nissan ones that sometimes took forever to get parts for ?

    Yup and as bad as they are for chademo, for AC and CCS they are drastically less reliable. I provided my car for testing the first CCS DBT units ESB got.
    For 6 months after the first ones were commissioned no i3 could charge on the CCS-equipped DBTs. 'cause there was a software issue and DBT hadn't done QA testing with actual vehicles.


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