Which home charging point?

[Jackson71]

I agree, times you go through adding the type B RCD and earthing requirement on commando socket you may have well just brought a charger which has it all built in.

I had a SyncEV charger installed which includes all the latest technology in which make the install much easier.

It's the smallest charger on the market (so they advertise) which to be fair I can't see how you can make a charger any smaller, its TINY. Hardly any bigger than the socket itself.

I had mine done by company called Charging Point UK Ltd (www.chargingpointuk.com). I'm based in Essex, from their website they cover many more areas. I couldn't fault them.

Jackson.

[wobert]

I3 arrived on Monday.

Have ordered a Wallbox Pulsar Plus 7.4Kw tethered charge point via No Fuel Needed.

Most other quotes coming out between £600-700.

NFN quoted £525 supply and fit.

Based near Chester, so local-ish installer

[Ken Figenus]

£549 headline price here for a Project EV charger - seems fully featured too. Anyone got one?

https://www.chargedev.co.uk/at-home/in/cardiff

What does 'Universal Only' mean - universal what?

Thx

[wobert]

I’ve gone with a Wallbox Pulsar Plus, just waiting for installation in 2 weeks time.

£525 all in for the 7.4kW tethered version.

[l354uge]

The wallbox unit uses a generic contactor and a raspberry pi to control, easy to buy from RS etc. The hard bit is the software and app, could be worth contacting wallbox to see if you can work out some sort of licensing and supply agreement.

[giggity]

wobert said:

I’ve gone with a Wallbox Pulsar Plus, just waiting for installation in 2 weeks time.

£525 all in for the 7.4kW tethered version.

Where did you get this? That’s a good price.

[l354uge]

No fuel needed are doing the wallbox for £450 installed base price at the moment

[l354uge]

Finally got my wallbox installed last night, bloody installer broke the casing! But wallbox are sending one straight out

Apart from that I'm impressed with the unit and app

[giggity]

Nice!

Just contacted them. It’s beats Costco at 589 with the powerboost and holder.

[wobert]

giggity said:

wobert said:

I’ve gone with a Wallbox Pulsar Plus, just waiting for installation in 2 weeks time.

£525 all in for the 7.4kW tethered version.

Where did you get this? That’s a good price.

No Fuel Needed

[dhutch]

SWoll said:

Depends how long it takes to get an engineer out I suppose? ...

Technician.

[LordGrover]

DNO Western Distribution have given me a date to unloop my supply, 15 July to excavate to expose cables and 16 July jointing work.
Have requested installation of Hypervolt following Monday 19 July. Fingers crossed it goes to plan.

[giggity]

NFN don’t cover London.

Is paying the extra for Wallbox worth it? Can get a Podpoint tethered for similar (£450) directly from them.

[l354uge]

Pod point is bigger and uglier. Both have built in PEN protection and the same features, I just prefered the look of the wallbox.

Scottish power and smarthomecharge are your next port of call, both have the wallbox at around £580 fitted

[giggity]

EO Mini Pro 2 and Wallbox Pulsar on my shortlist.

Tell me is there any reason to pick one over the other?

Only going for tethered version! Pros and cons of either unit?

[Casa1862]

l354uge said:

Pod point is bigger and uglier. Both have built in PEN protection and the same features, I just prefered the look of the wallbox.

Scottish power and smarthomecharge are your next port of call, both have the wallbox at around £580 fitted

Not sure i agree, I'm thinking of getting a home charger, only thing I like about the PP is the cable can be wound when not in use and is hidden, the wall box looks a mess with the cable exposed, the reel they supply at optional cost doesn't improve it much either.

[giggity]

So looked at the EO Mini Pro 2 and the Wallbox - need to find a way to organise the cable.

Seen the Podpoint it’s quite large but it does have the plus point the cable can be wound around it.

Any other thoughts?

Edit - seen reports of some issues with EO Mini Pro 2 being that they failed to schedule charge and EO needed to send out their engineers out to resolve / update firmware …

Edited by giggity on Sunday 4th July 19:22

[LordGrover]

^^
Car dependent obvs, but most cars can schedule themselves. Even though I'm getting a 'smart' charger, it'll be set to charge immediately because the car decides when to begin and end charging.

[JonnyVTEC]

Remember the 'smart' part of a smart charger (certainly in OLEZ terms) has nothing to do with setting a timing schedule.

[Moley RUFC]

Another vote for the EO Pro Mini. Small and discrete…