Reliability of the Efacec FCPs

BoatMad · 01-09-2016 12:09am #1

I find it strange that newly commissioned Efacec FCP units are failing like flies, units installed 2-3 months ago ( Gorey , Applegreen cullimore) have failed in recent days and elsewhere as well

something is strange , from what I understand is the costs of these units , Id expect , as the ESB would, that failures would be few and far between , I mean its not like any of these units are particularly heavily used

01-09-2016 1:17pm

Is that why so many FCPs/rapids are down at the moment? My wife recently drove to Kilkenny and it was pain in the neck to plot a route with working chargers.

The EFACECs have been around for a while, like the one at LUAS park and ride in Sandyford which is now down. Maybe some recent model of BEV is not compatible with them and they go down because of that like what used to happen with Zoe and standard posts? Alternatively it could a something like bad firmware if they were recently updated.

It's a worry alright if the existing infra cannot be kept running.

cros13 · 01-09-2016 4:24pm

In some cases it's a DC breaker tripping low.... like 10-20A.
Other units are having software issues.

I had 3 efacec rapids in a row down today. Lusk, Clonshaugh and Dublin Airport.
Portlaoise has been down for two weeks now.

The only rapids I've found to be unfailingly reliable are the ABBs, but the ABBs are more expensive than the efacecs and servicing is offered by ABB, which Carra wasn't happy with.

BoatMad · 01-09-2016 4:32pm

cros13 wrote: »

In some cases it's a DC breaker tripping low.... like 10-20A.
Other units are having software issues.

I had 3 efacec rapids in a row down today. Lusk, Clonshaugh and Dublin Airport.
Portlaoise has been down for two weeks now.

The only rapids I've found to be unfailingly reliable are the ABBs, but the ABBs are more expensive than the efacecs and servicing is offered by ABB, which Carra wasn't happy with.

considering , ecars have replaced many FCPS with effaced triples , this is very worrying and shows very bad engineering decisions being taken

cros13 · 01-09-2016 10:56pm

On the plus side, the efacecs are far more reliable than the DBTs.

02-09-2016 4:40pm

Which ones were the DBT's ? were they the Nissan ones that sometimes took forever to get parts for ?

cros13 · 02-09-2016 6:06pm

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Which ones were the DBT's ? were they the Nissan ones that sometimes took forever to get parts for ?

Yup and as bad as they are for chademo, for AC and CCS they are drastically less reliable. I provided my car for testing the first CCS DBT units ESB got.
For 6 months after the first ones were commissioned no i3 could charge on the CCS-equipped DBTs. 'cause there was a software issue and DBT hadn't done QA testing with actual vehicles.

Reliability of the Efacec FCPs

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