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

Is that the car telling you 1.6-1.8kW or the socket? When I was working off a 10A granny charger on a 'smart' socket which showed actual consumption, it was always pulling around 2.0-2.1kW. Allowing for transmission losses along the fairly 'thin by EV standards' granny charger cable, AC-DC converter and battery pack, a fairly normal 10-20% transmission loss would have you down around 1.6-1.8kW.

Picking up a 2020 e golf this week and getting home charger installed next Wednesday. It's a sync ev from forkearn. Just wondering should I get the tethered or untethered? Two cables come with the car a granny cable and the other one. Would they be sufficient or should I go tethered? I'm fairly clueless

It's an extra 100e for the tethered. Basically does anyone know if the type 2 cable that comes with an e golf a 32amp? I've read some places saying 16amp

I have a tethered charger at home and there is a untethered charger at work.

Personally I think tethered is the way to go unless you have a specific reason to have untethered (maybe like your also using or potentially using an older car with type 1).

Taking out the cable from the boot and uncoiling it and the reverse when putting it away, potentially while raining, is a bit of faffing I would happily pay a once off €100 to avoid! For the few weeks I'm not in work I can throw the cable under the floor in the boot, if I was using it regularly it would either take up room in the boot or take extra time to put it under the floor every time.

Thanks! Is anyone here using a BG sync?

Anyone based in the Kerry/Cork region who can recommend an EV charger installer for me? Trying a few places currently for quotes on the work needed. I'm considering a Zappi 7kw untethered, anyone already have one of these. Any issues with them that I should be aware of?

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Grand for small battery vehicles.

Big big difference between a Leaf and a modern EV.

I would be of the frame of mind that it's better to leave it on. Turning something on and off all the time can cause problems. An occasional reboot if there are any bugs is all you need.

By the way, how is the new charger going?

fair enough. Thanks. new charger is going well, so good to be able to charge at 7.2

I have a volkwagen ID4, I removed all scheduling from the car………………as it never seemed to work as it should. I then decided to setup scheduled charging from the EV charger instead

Had my hypervolt EV charger installed at weekend. I set scheduled charging up on this. start at midnight, end at 9am, all good.

I don't have solar or anything funky, just a charger for charging the car.

This morning woke at 7am, expecting car to be charged and it was not, upon checking was only charging at 3.7kw. Load on rest of house was only 0.4kw so no issue there.

I have charger set in boost mode/32 amps etc so all should be good.

Paused the charge from the EV charger app and restarted again and this time charging kicked off at 7.2kw

contacted ev company, their advice was

"so it looks like the car is not fully active when the schedule charge is starting. Would you be able to set up a small schedule to start a few minutes before your current schedule please? That should wake the vehicle up and allow it to charge at the full rate.

If you wanted the schedule you currently have set to work, you can start the 'wake up' schedule at 23:55 - 23:59. That will then allow you to charge at the full rate for your full schedule!

I believe that some Volkswagen vehicles require the car to be 'awake' for it to be able to charge at the full rate."

Has anyone experienced this? that the car has to be woken up to charge at the full rate?

How confident are you that the hypervolts CT clamp is installed correctly on the incoming tails to the Consumer unit ?..

You were getting the full whack when you restarted the charge weren't you? If that's the case, it's not the charger.