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

I went tethered.. I get the look side of it. My charger and cable is behind the downpipe so can't really be seen...having used it a grand total of twice it's handy not to have to take the cable out of the boot.. one of the electricians who looked at quoting me for my install recommend untethered due to cable breaks from repeated winding up.. all down to personal choice really... I'm away at the moment and using untethered charger at hotel and it's not a life sentence to take the cable from the boot and plug both ends in but it's not quite as handy

Yes that’s it

now if it it was a plug in hybrid and you had to charge every time you get home it’s a bigger pain but most people with bevs charge once or twice a week.

HI all,

may be someone can point me in the right direction with this issue.

it is my wifes car so I have no idea. so long story short and maybe it is not related but yesterday something in the kitchen blew and tripped the fuse box for the sockets so reset the trip. my wife went to charge her car and she only noticed now after charging the car last night, The home charging point has no power going to it, can anyone tell me how to reset it? or do we need to get someone out?

Cheers, I didn't know there was a breaker in Meter box, all sorted now.

micks_address was able to answer it. yeah the trip switch was in the cabinet outside. so its all sorted now cheers though.

Your socket tripswitch and the one in your meter box shouldn’t both have tripped. There’s something not right and would need to be investigated.

Got my 600 quid last week too after absolutely no contact from them at all. Sent my stuff to them first week of April.

Am I right in saying you can't sent off for the grant until you have the car, even if you have the VIN number?

Submitted my grant payment request this evening..

Got this email

Thank you for submitting your Payment Request Form and supporting documents.

We are awaiting the submission of the Electrician’s Form to be completed by your electrician.

I guess I need to nudge my installer tomorrow.

Cheers,

Mick

Payment request

This is going to catch some people later in the year where they buy a charge point online and find afterwards that it doesn't qualify for the grant.

And its going to knock a lot of the secondhand sales as most of those are dumb charge points that people are shifting on but will no longer qualify for a grant... e.g. the original ESB charge point that was grant funded will no longer be allowed under the new criteria, so you can't buy it secondhand and use it for your grant application. Its going to force everyone to go with more expensive charge points or forfeit the grant.

Like a lot of other government policy directions we are simply following in the UK's coat tails. They mandated smart charge points a while back.

There are a few things but mainly

• dynamic load balancing to ensure your house doesn't get overloaded
• shifting the charging from peak hours to night time hours.... which the cars can do via their timers anyway but they want it in the charge points for some reason.
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• They cite other reasons like V2G but that is not necessary to qualify just yet, but they will probably make that mandatory at a later date when that technology matures.

they can work with dynamic pricing when it becomes available

better battery management, tell it what time you want it charged and it’s figure out the most efficient way. Rather than just pump out 7kw, it may put out 4kw or delay the charging.

better grid management, if there’s high demand between 1-3 am it will put off or reduce chargers.

if there’s excess RES between 1-3 am it can send all max load to the car