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

Will ya let us know if you get a price for installation

Got the ev sync installed today. Very neat job. The unit itself is smaller than I thought too. So far, so good.

I think Fokearn cover the whole country.

Have it set up as plug and play.. You can go into the Sync Energy app and set it up that way.. Or set it up to work with app/broadband. Also some other useful settings there like lowering the brightness on the Led light on the front of the unit.

Where are those options?

Just today I got a new version of the Sync Energy App on the phone. Now it has Home user or Installer user, where before it only had Installer. From reading the release notes of the Sync Energy app, it's replacing the Monta app for all Sync Energy branded Chargers. Mine is BG SyncEV branded, so still has to use the Monta app.

So basically there are two home user apps, Sync Energy for new units and Monta for older units manufactured before Aug 2024.

The installers app was recently changed to use the Sync Energy app (before it had home user added) and it uses Bluetooth to connect to the charger. But if the charger is already configured to use wifi, then as far as I can tell, you need to turn off or disable the wifi in your house, and the charger will then switch to using Bluetooth. You can then discover and connect using the app. In the app is where you can change the LED brightness, the wifi network and check that the incoming CT load sensor clamp is connected, installed the right way around and has the correct Amp rate for your fuse/wiring.

I haven't done this, but might as the LED is annoyingly bright.

You'd be better off buying battery storage, getting an EV plan and charging both car and battery using the super cheap rate. Solar excess could be stored in the battery and run the house off it in the evening, then a fully charged battery could cover the breakfast until the sun comes up.

Charging car from solar would realistically require massive amount of solar and your roof may not be big enough. Even with say 12kW of solar you may struggle to get 28kWh from 10am-2pm or 130km of range, and that's in peak summer.

Ideally you want solar installed at same time as charger and extra CT for solar panels. A standard zappi install with one CT clamp will work fine charging car from excess but a second ct clamp on solar will allow you to display solar vs house vs car all in one app. If you get an eddi for hot water (again makes no financial sense if you get paid more to export), then you can heat hot water with excess when car is full or not there daytime in summer.

Personally I would just bring the old charger and get a zappi if it breaks in 5 years. Zappis seem to have limited life anyway.

If anyone is looking for a charger, I have an EV6 due in January and it comes with a charger install from Energia. I already have a Zappi and Kia said I can install it elsewhere so I’m tempted to put it up on adverts. They are offering Ohme, Zappi, or EO:

https://www.energia.ie/dealer-partnerships/free-ev-home-charger-offer

I’m sure it’s subsidised by Kia to sell cars. I’m on the Energia Smart EV plan and I can charge for 4 hours at night for 6.9c/kWh, so it absolutely fits my needs.

I'd certainly be interested. As mentioned above I don't think I'm going to take my charger with me when I move, feels far too mean and I want to get tethered this time anyway 😅

I’ll PM you and we can have a chat.

Looks tidy, I thought he would have brought the power to the underneath of the isolator beside where he went out to the CP. Is the cable run inside going through the attic?

Best practice is to only connect at the bottom but that isolator may not have room for 2 connections at the bottom. In theory those glands are waterproof and it should not matter It might not look as nice either if the feed is from above having 2 right turns