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Ah I see, now I see the appeal of them. I wasn’t aware that most of the energy from the solar panels goes back to the grid without you getting paid. I got my 32a tethered unit installed for only €200 after grant which included a priority switch, whereas Zappis seem to be around €1000 even after the grant for a supply and install job?
Not quite that much! Around the €1000 installed before the grant would be the norm for a basic install. A bit more now there is the newer generation Zappi charger that is more expensive to buy.Is there a minimum amount of solar that makes sense for charging an EV?
I was thinking of doing a solar car port, but I read that a 10kW system is around 70sqm, so a 7x5 double car port would only be 5kW, and I imagine that's a maximum.
10kW? Hold on man, the ESB doesn't allow you to have more than 6kW of power connected to the grid
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Ah I see, now I see the appeal of them. I wasn’t aware that most of the energy from the solar panels goes back to the grid without you getting paid. I got my 32a tethered unit installed for only €200 after grant which included a priority switch, whereas Zappis seem to be around €1000 even after the grant for a supply and install job?
€1000 after grant for a Zappi is insane money. The grant more or less covers the cost of the Zappi itself and then its a case of how much your electrician charges you for the 1-2hrs work.... if thats €1000 Im in the wrong job!
Is there a minimum amount of solar that makes sense for charging an EV?
There isnt a right or wrong answer to that.
To get anything meaningful into the car I think you'd need 4kWp bearing in mind that it would be producing alot less than 4kW for several months of the year and you need to subtract the background house load as well.
Some EV's cutoff at 1.4kW and allowing for the background house load of a few hundred watts I guess you could argue that 2kWp is the minimum... not sure you would get anything much into the car at that rate though before the sun went down.0 -
€1000 after grant for a Zappi is insane money. The grant more or less covers the cost of the Zappi itself and then its a case of how much your electrician charges you for the 1-2hrs work.... if thats €1000 Im in the wrong job!
The Zappi V2 tethered is around 880 eur, grant covers 600eur. Installs now require isolation switches which add to the cost. We got Darkin Electrical to do our install, 1400 eur Zappi V2 and isolation switch included, so overall we will have paid 800 eur after we get the grant. Darkin have a supply of Zappis, they're hard to get directly I think without waiting a few months.0 -
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1.5 hours is quick but definitely not unheard of.
I'd say you should be adding installer taking pride in their work and understanding that this is a unit going in a visible location on someone's house as a reason for adding a bit of time. We can all lash them in and move on to the next one but you'll find work dries up fairly quickly with that approach
If you're insinuating it was a hatch job, then you couldn't be more wrong. The job was done to perfection. As I said, by a very experienced EV charge point installer. Working for the company that has done more EV charge point installs than all other EV charge point installers in the country combined
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If you're insinuating it was a hatch job, then you couldn't be more wrong. The job was done to perfection. As I said, by a very experienced EV charge point installer. Working for the company that has done more EV charge point installs than all other EV charge point installers in the country combined
Not at all. Just pointing out that there are more reasons than inexperience/laziness for a job taking a bit longer.0 -
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Here's the bill from my Zappi V2 install, including isolator, from Darkin Electrical:
As you can see labour is 250 eur incl VAT. Install took around 6 hours, slower than normal but very good attention to detail and a lot of pride in the work.0 -
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