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

Home 3 = £630 inc VAT. £525 EX VAT. Add £30 postage = £555 (€650)

Home 3 Pro = £690 in VAT. £575 EX VAT. Add £30 postage = £605 (€709)

UK VAT is 20%. You need to get a VAT free quote, hence the above figures. There is a possibility that you will be charged 23% Irish VAT, but this hasn't been the case for me on 2 orders spaced a year and a half apart.

Hypervolt is also solar suitable.

RECI fees are a magical mystery. Nobody knows what they will charge.

See this setup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8i_jgvjqkc

Would this allow me charge at 7kw per hour with the right cabling run to the box?

so could be

Tesla granny charger €200.

Tesla Commando adaptor €50.

commando socket and idolator €100.

RCBO €50

Run fresh cabling Cabling €50 (less than 2 meter run from fuse board)

€450 + electricians cost, maybe €150

€600 total perhaps.

Thanks. But without an actual EV charger wired in, you are limited to circa 2.2kw entering the car? That's just what I am wondering - how would one go about getting power into an EV without a charger unit tied back to the board? Or is there an alternative of running 4 or 6mm cable from the board and tying it into a more basic dumb socket that just feeds the car at the 7kw?

Thank you!!

Yep, he wants the setup back to what it was when I leave - with just the external socket. fair enough, that's perfectly fine.

regarding the meter tails and all this - could be a problem. Like if it involves work between fuse box and meter box, I just wont bother. My only focus up to now was between fuse box and charge point.

I am getting a bigger battery car....... so the 2kw charging per hour is not great, but if its hardship or overly costly to upgrade, I will just have to continue with the granny charger and do with it 😔

The crux of this whole thing is living in a rented house (for my sins), and as you say, my aim is to spend as little as possible with the least amount of changes. Landlord is good enough to allow me to do this in the first place but he wants minimal disruption. if there are any overly complicated or costly upgrades needed , I will just leave it off entirely.

House was built in 2004/2005 if that makes any difference to meter tails or upgrade work etc

regarding the photo, from day one, I installed a hook and I actually have the main weight of the granny charger hanging off the hook, so this takes all the weight off the plug :)

I have an electrician coming for a free survey, before he comes, I am just educating myself.

I guess I can present the electrician with 3 options and see what happens

• 7.2 Kw charger option
• 3.6kw charger option
• Commando and Tesla charger option

I hope it will be relatively straight forward. New RCBO, isolator, new 2 metre cable run from fuse board to charger and then install 7.2 charger. Job done. But will see…..

I don't need anything fancy. Just a really simple setup - Plug it in, set timer in car to start at 11pm and end at 8am. Nothing else needed.

Had a chat with electrician, will probably go down the install a 7.2kw ev charger route.

Can anyone recommend a decent 7.2 kw EV charger that qualifies for the SEAI grant that is not too expensive? don't need solar etc just basic charging.

Something in the 400 or 500 Euro bracket. Or are all of them just simply more costly than this (if you want to get something half decent)

Zappis seem to have a good rep, but they are fairly expensive

I recently up graded my car from a 40kw Leaf to 65kw Kona and now the home charger can’t refill to car in a single night.

I have one of the original 3.6kw ESB chargers. Does any one know if they are upgradeable ( I’m an electrician so the electrical side ie breaker, cable, internal contactor etc) is easy but don’t know anything about protocols, ie how will the unit know it can deliver 7kw)

If it was easy to configure it would work out a lot cheaper than getting a new one.

I was asking if it possible to up grade the existing charger rather than replace it. Yes it is easy to get a new one but if the existing one could easily be modified to deliver 7kw it might make more sense.

I like the compactness or the wallbox chargers. Nice and discreet.

are they any good?

seems to be a choice between wallbox max and plus, does not seem to be much difference in spec

Yeah. Just located a thread on wallbox with a good few reports of WiFi/connection issues.

i still have yet to see any advantage with a “future proofed EV charger”

just export/sell your excess during the day and charge at a lower rate during the night.

if you are worried about your carbon footprint , rest assured the stuff you export will be used by someone.

I get that but I am thinking of the battery. If there is a power cut I could charge the car from the battery. Low risk I know but still better to have it than not have it.