1500 watts charging.. was expecting 2300 watts?

Some Granny chargers allow you to set the power draw. On my Hyundai one there is a physical button on the back iirc. Maybe it's something like that?

No worries! I actually used the switch to turn down the charger cause I didn't fully trust the wiring of the socket it was plugged into and we were on a 24 hour plan at the time so it didn't really matter how long it took

Best of luck with the car!

it all depends on teh socket it's plugged into…. a standard 13a house socket isn't really suitable for putting out a load of 2.3kW for 12 hours straight… a few minutes to boil a kettle, heat a dishwasher/washing machine yeah, but full load for any amount of time will generate a lot of heat…

Granny chargers, at least the proper ones supplied with the car, have thermal protection built into their 13A plugs to prevent overheating. If the unit detects a rise in temperature it will throttle back the charging current to reduce it, even shutting it off altogether if necessary.

This is why you should never use them on an extension lead as you'll only be protecting the plug plugged into the extension lead and not the extension lead plug that's plugged into your house socket.

The cheap and nasty Chinese ones from Amazon etc. on the other hand very often have none of this protection and also allow 13A operation as opposed to a maximum of 10A on the manufacturer supplied ones.

It must not work that well if my mate regularly has to go and replace melted plug outlets. I doubt most of these people are using any granny charger other than the one that came with the car.

I believe some of the earlier ones allowed 13A charging but they later reduced it to 10A which I understand is the maximum continuous current the British Standard specifies for a 3 pin 13A plug and socket. The thermal protection should still have worked even then so I don't know what caused all those melted plugs.

MK/Honeywell probably don’t have the reputation they once had but I think the likes of their logic plus sockets are still decent. Click are very popular, decent quality and now used extensively. Screwfix carry some decent stock as well but their volume sales are probably from the cheap tat. Electricans here like to deal with knowledgeable local wholesalers that offer a good service, credit facilities and a bit of discount. Screwfix will probably come and go like Argos.