When should the First Periodic inspect of an EVSE be?

When should the First Periodic inspect of an EVSE be?

Points to consider
Location Indoors or outdoors
Domestic Dwelling vs commercial or industrial
Single Phase vs 3 phase.
What the MI recommends

Personally for the average Domestic Dwelling I think it needs to be about 3 years for the following reasons


- Common install location being outside
- Wear and tear of EVSE and leads to the EV
- Firmware updates
- Earthing and PEN detection of current install
- Incorrect RCD or no RCD fitted at all or incorrect type.  Some were fitted with type AC trip characteristics..  (this may be contentious as the Standard practice or MI at the time are have been different to now)
- Solar PV may have been fitted to the system after the EVSE install, this may now need to be checked for Bi-Diractional RCD again this may have been installed with a Type AC or A RCD
- The possibility of the EVSE unit itself had been replaced due to a fault or the customer wanted a different unit




As always please be polite and respectful in this purely academic debate.  Come on everybody let’s help inspire the future.

  • actual inspection date will be somewhere between when the house is next sold, and never.

    agree - though  perhaps I'd add "or when something goes 'phut' "

    And despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth, rather like the never tested RCDs,  that does seem to be perfectly adequate in practice - far more folk are injured by things that are not electricity ... And the DNOs clearly work on a similar basis for their kit.

    Mike