Guy rang me yesterday, He wants to plug his EV in and charge it overnight at his static caravan. He only has a 2OA supply: that's fine he can in theory plug in via a 13A socket and trickle charge. What he wants/needs is some sort of management system that will turn off his charger if he turns on say kettle and toaster first thing; I don't even know if this sort of thing is available, I would think it would have to be installed at the CU and won't be cheap. I think I'm going to tell him he needs to speak to a registered EV point installer, as (before I even look) there's probably all sorts of issues here with liability, and additional earthing requirement/ RCD issues, but any thoughts? It''s an interesting and not unreasonable question, and i guess likely to be commonplace in the future. You have a static: how do you charge your car when you're there?
Hi Dave, we at 'matt:e' have a little load curtailment unit for EV Chargers, effectively you put the CT around the incoming supply tails and if it approaches its factory set limit then we stop charging to the EV unit, it can come with a factory fitted Type A RCBO or even a full Type B RCCB if required.
Hi Dave, we at 'matt:e' have a little load curtailment unit for EV Chargers, effectively you put the CT around the incoming supply tails and if it approaches its factory set limit then we stop charging to the EV unit, it can come with a factory fitted Type A RCBO or even a full Type B RCCB if required.
