Subj : Re: EVs
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Avon
Date : Wed Oct 25 2023 09:42 pm

On 24 Oct 2023 at 07:57a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF>  I asked my electrician when he wanted to shut power down to install my
 pF>  240/20 circuit, and he told me there was no need. He did the connection
 pF>  in about 30 minutes with no power interruption.

Golly, yes well it went well today, he spent an hour or two on site, ran cable from the power meters / box inside the house and took it under the house and outside to a wooden fence we have at the top of our drive way / off street parking... it's a tidy job, I am regretting not getting a longer cable though, I think it's 5 meters that came with the unit but ideally it should have been 7.

I've just plugged the car in and it's doing it's first charge.

He did wind down the amps to a max of 20 instead of the 32 the single phase can deliver as there's a cut off switch wired into the circuit and the one he thought he had brought/ordered turned out to be a lower rated one that what he was intending to install.

So that lower amperage is only temporary and he'll be back in 48 hours to swap out the cut off switch with a higher rated one and then up the juice the Wallbox will deliver.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
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