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

Near esb meter install

No, you really won't. People with tethered chargers keep saying this.

How many people have a work bag they get from the back seat? Or a baby, that takes a lot longer, plus getting the pram in. You're getting something out of the car anyway. Grab the cable from the boot/floor/back seat, plug it in right next to the back door you're standing beside, then into the wall on the way to the door, then go into the house.

It's literally not a big deal at all. It rains every other day in Ireland, 200 days a year. You get wet all the time walking into the house from the car. What's an extra 20-30 seconds.

And I'm saying that as someone who uses a 10m cable which gets tangled and is heavy. Oh no, rain. In Ireland. What ever will we do.

I spend more time getting wet walking to my car in the car park at work than I do plugging the car in with an untethered cable.

most people keep their type 2 cable nicely tidied away which is often in the hole in the boot. So if you have things in the boot you may have to take them out. Way to mush hassle. Tethered all the way.

leave it at home and it’ll be the one day you need it

Cable is fine so the fault is with the charger, it's now flashing a red fault LED which the manual says is "More than 6ma of DC current has leaked to earth" no idea what that means, but a forum post found on Google indicates water ingress.

So what's the story with warranties and such on chargers. It was installed last August and I didn't register on their website for their "extended warranty". Do Irish consumer rights protect me here or am I on the hook for paying for repairs? If it's water ingress then it shouldn't be on me as that means it either wasn't installed properly or is faulty and wasn't waterproof somewhere.

Anyone any suggestions at all on

Home chargers and installers?

I don't really understand the difference between tethered and untethered?

Do we have any zappi experts here? The uncle got one installed and having a few problems with it, I had a look today but my first time ever using one so learning myself

The unit is set to default at fast, so you'd be expecting 7kw or so. However, at bottom of screen it says eco and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to display fast, any ideas? It's only been charging at 1.4 kw or so for him.

Secondly, I found how to put it in boost, and it ramped up to almost 7kw but after a short while it would cut off and some message about bad voltage.

Any ideas how to get this charger working straightforward at proper speed? His daughter has one and that just defaults to fast no problem.

The one thing I can think of is different is he has solar and his daughter doesn't

Really? I thought you didn't install them anymore, they interfered with getting your breakfast roll or something 🤔

Hi folks, in search of some advice. I’m likely to be getting a 2019 Hyundai Kona EV, so need advice on a home EV charger. I intend to get solar PV panels installed later this year, so I would need the EV charger to be compatible with most solar PV inverters. Also, we are a two car house, and I expect the time will come in within the next 5 years where the main car will end up being a more modern EV than the 2019 Hyundai Kona - hence I would want the home EV charger to be future proofed for new EVs on the market now and near future. I live in a typical semi d with a driveway, where there will be no issue installing the home EV charger on the side wall of the house which backs on to the fuse board. It would be nice (but not critical) if I could also control and monitor the EV charger via my smartphone. All advice on the home EV charger that best suits my needs would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot!

When the charger grant is approved do you get an email or does the money just appear in your account? Sent the docs in mid December.

My parents got the Autel charger installed last year (via Smartzone), the installer said the main incoming cable to the DB will need to be upgraded to carry the current of the EV and house. The installer took all boxes, manuals, etc with him and said when the work is done on the cable upgrade to ring Smartzone to finish the install. While that work was being done Smartzone has gone bust and the parent's EV charger is useless because they don't have the pin code (it was in the manual).

What can the parent do to get the pin code and get the charger working or is it a case to get a new charger from another company and take the hit?

Thanks, B

If you have received grant approval, installed the charger and had your electrician fill in the forms online, along with the documents / photos that you had to submit, you should then receive an email from the SEAI stating:

"Dear Mr CivilEx

SEAI has now received all documentation required to begin processing your grant payment request. If you did not submit this information please let us know by contacting us as soon as possible, if we don’t hear from you we will proceed with the application.

Please allow for up to 6 to 8 weeks for your payment to be received.

If you have any queries email us at EVChargers@seai.ie or call us on 01-8082100."

The grant monies arrived in my bank account about 5 weeks after receiving that email.