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

Leaving all the issues to one side, I think this shows why you should not be giving your full address to companies just for quotations, the general area will be more than sufficient for them to work out any additional travel costs etc. Even for you own data protection, there's no need to be firing your full details off to loads of companies until you actually pick one to go with. Hopefully you get sorted anyway.

When you do get someone ask for a price for 16 and 25mm, 25mm tails should be minimal extra cost but will 'futureproof' it.

So just to be clear, without the car charging that meter went from 117.xx to 119.22? If so, that's an issue. Try isolating it and see does that stop it.

Also, looks like they raided their parts bin for that CU, ideally a newly installed CU would have all the same make of components as much as possible.

Would anybody have any recent experience of how long between completing a survey and order on the Ohme website how long it took for the installation to be arranged and done?

I have a car ordered which is ready for collection but would prefer the charger in first

This thread is brimmed with quotes though. Pages and pages of them. Literally a few clicks back

SOTA Electrical have posted an interesting video on YouTube regarding Zappi installation;

"Today I want to share with you some interesting information that has come my way regarding the Zappi EV charger and the fact that it is a requirement to install a double pole Type A RCD upstream in order to carry out a compliant installation."

Carcharger.ie we're the best price I found and install booked in

I applied for the SEAI grant on 31/12/2023 but I didn't get the letter of approval until 2/1/2024. Do I have access to the €300 or €600 grant?

No, it doesn't seem to be. Where would I see it? This is all I could find relating to the grant amount:

This seems to imply that I would have the €600 but it also says "Letter of Offer Start Date: 02/01/2024".

Dave

Just wondering the best way to solve this problem. I want to get an EV later this year but live in a managed estate with unassigned parking, its basically a free for all on a first come, first served basis and as many households have 2 and sometimes 3 cars getting parking anywhere is tricky. The gable side of my house is currently used to park two cars, theres a footpath of about 75cm wide along its length which is unused as it only leads to my back garden gate. At the front end of the gable is all the infrastructure for a EV charger- my fuse box & ESB meter are on that wall. So an EV parked next to it would be quite close to the charging unit, about a metre maybe 1.5m of charging cable from home to car charging port.

What Ive thought of is one of two ways

1. I buy the charger and the space next to my gable is painted green and marked out for EV only. Space can then be used by neighbours to charge an EV with them paying me for the kws used. Although the footpath isnt used for public liability reasons Id install a swinging arm on my gable to bridge the gap between it and the car. Or
2. We get a company to set up a space somewhere else in the estate and again marked out green for EV only. People charging pay the company direct for use.

Either way the only way Im getting this past the Board of Directors (of which I am one) is a set up where neighbours can use the charging. Theres no way I can just commandeer a parking space for myself when everyone else is unassigned and the spaces are common ground owned by everyone. But with a community use EV charging point I can get it past the Board because they too want to buy EVs in the future.

Couple of questions- on 1 is there tech available to effectively create accounts/profiles so if a neighbour uses it I know their usage and so do they and can charge them accurately? Like is there an app which recognises what model car it is charging? And on 2 are there companies out there who do this, ie install EV infrastructure and then charge fees to use it? Any names would be helpful.

EV may not be the best choice .. that's my first thought they can't suit all circumstances.

Or

You start numbering spots and get rid of the free4all. That's a poor system.

I am often guilty of this, I put it down to hunger ! (Snickers)