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

Apology accepted.

Believe me I wasn't apologising....

This conversation is so 🍿🍿.

Got mine stalled yesterday approx 1 hours work (I had cables already ran and charger mounted though)

Edit: 😟😟😟

Two pages of amateurs telling professionals how to do their job. You’d have to wonder why there are regulations in place if it’s that easy, and why there aren’t more installers doing it. Go figure.

Ecoplex installed my Wallbox Pulsar in 60 minutes a couple of years ago.

2 lads granted, so the work shared effectively, and yes - a simple install right next to the consumer unit.

Sales contact did originally look for 150 for a priority switch/CT clamp until I pointed out their latest brochure said it was included in the install price - and there was a hasty backtrack done there.

Showed me how much profit there is in chargepoint installs, and also - much like all domains of human activity these days that involve commission-based sales people at the front end - how murky they all make costs vs price vs effort to confuse customers in order to take higher income.

Ye, an EO pro can do it with the correct set up. At the moment depending on your plan it might work out cheaper to export the solar surplus and charge at night, however things change and as I've said in previous posts for a minimal extra outlay at time of installation (or even free of extra charge with some installers), personally I'd prefer to have the full functionality available on the charger.

Car is a Cupra Born, so always has 7kW charging and cable is definitely 32A as I have been using it without issue for the last 17 months. It went down as far as 12A before I unplugged it. No power shower or anything in the house. Washing machine was on for a bit but no change when it was off so nothing unusual there.

I'll try again tonight and see what the story is. Car was just past 80% but I've never had any slowdown when nearly full.

Depending on your test tonight I would try to get a loan of another cable to rule that out. It could be a bad connection in the cable which then causes it to revert to lower amps as a fail safe. Worth trying another cable anyway to rule it out.

Another thing to check... the VW ID cars have a "reduced charging rate" option which is easy to flick on by mistake. Does the Cupra have that? Any chance thats flicked on?

When it’s pouring rain and you need to plug in your car or plug it out, you’ll feel very silly.

Near esb meter install

No, you really won't. People with tethered chargers keep saying this.

How many people have a work bag they get from the back seat? Or a baby, that takes a lot longer, plus getting the pram in. You're getting something out of the car anyway. Grab the cable from the boot/floor/back seat, plug it in right next to the back door you're standing beside, then into the wall on the way to the door, then go into the house.

It's literally not a big deal at all. It rains every other day in Ireland, 200 days a year. You get wet all the time walking into the house from the car. What's an extra 20-30 seconds.

And I'm saying that as someone who uses a 10m cable which gets tangled and is heavy. Oh no, rain. In Ireland. What ever will we do.

I spend more time getting wet walking to my car in the car park at work than I do plugging the car in with an untethered cable.

most people keep their type 2 cable nicely tidied away which is often in the hole in the boot. So if you have things in the boot you may have to take them out. Way to mush hassle. Tethered all the way.

leave it at home and it’ll be the one day you need it

Cable is fine so the fault is with the charger, it's now flashing a red fault LED which the manual says is "More than 6ma of DC current has leaked to earth" no idea what that means, but a forum post found on Google indicates water ingress.

So what's the story with warranties and such on chargers. It was installed last August and I didn't register on their website for their "extended warranty". Do Irish consumer rights protect me here or am I on the hook for paying for repairs? If it's water ingress then it shouldn't be on me as that means it either wasn't installed properly or is faulty and wasn't waterproof somewhere.