Home charge points (purchase/problems/questions) (See mod note post#1)

The sub board goes into the meter box

Is there any way to tell what fuse you have? I looked at the meter box and it says 80/60 which could be anything. My house is a new build 2016 with a heat pump, so that would suggest a higher rating for the supply.

Let us know how it goes.

It's actually a very grey area at the moment.

I imagine it will officially be scrapped early 2022.

Scrapped in what way? Installation from the meter? From reading around on the issue from the UK the main concern was the legal rights to the meter box and not the electrical soundness of the installation. Frankly I wouldn't be getting an EV it it meant running cabling all the way back to the CU that is buried in the middle of the house, and the house is only 5 years old.

Tbh it seemed dubious in the UK even regarding the rights the the network provider. I watched one video where the lads did a deep dive in it and the enforcement was that the network could disconnect your power if they lacked space to upgrade the meter. It really sounded like catastrophic hyperbole.

I think the clarification from Safe electric is good, it's not their rolls to miss use safety regs to enforce a company's policies. I'd be disappointed if they changed. Regardless, I'll be getting mine installed from the meter at the end of the month. If that causes issues with smart metering, I could not give a fiddlers.

I cannot see it on my previous Energia, Electric Ireland or Bord Gais bills (The choices of being a switcher) but I ring up ESBN tomorrow to find out. I guess it's important for the charger installer.

I was being sarcastic with regards to your installer, not you :)

Oops, sorry about that. In fairness to him he was a decent fella and was working under the guidelines of circet who seem to be very strict. I suggested following the cable route for the shower which would have eliminated all drilling but they aren't allowed into attics either. Everything had to be recorded after the install.

I thought the items on the cu are overload switches not fuses, my main switch is 63A there's no fuse on the board. Does my fuse being rated 60/80A mean it can handle 60A continuously with 80A blowing it, similar to what you see in car charging circuits?

Probably just a terminology thing but your main consumer unit has a main fuse/switch/trip (whatever you want to call it). When you flip that, the entire house goes dead. Whatever that switch is rated for is the max you can draw on that consumer unit regardless of what rating the ESB fuse is in the meter box.

The fuse in the meter box is either a 60A or an 80A.... thats what "60A/80A" means on the side of it. It could be either. You wont know for 100% certain unless you break the seal and eyeball the fuse which you are not allowed do. Thats ESB's property. If that fuse is, say 60A, it wont blow at exactly 60A. Its more tolerant than that but you wouldnt want to be regularly running it at 60A either.

Thanks for all the advice in here recently, just had my install done today. Was hoping to have the cable go into the back of the isolator and have the wall box directly on top of it but not possible. Happy with it and looking forward to having more control over the charging.

Car is only a hybrid so I didn't "need" the charger but was causing my RCBO to trip which meant all the sockets would lose power. Gets very annoying when you are in bed and have to go down to sort it.

That's my point installed, I've painted the conduit and it looks a lot better.