Home Chargers

[hughhewitt]

Hi all,

Finally getting round to getting a wall charger installed - does anyone have any recommendations of which brand to go for and which to avoid?

Thanks!

[natelittle]

Can absolutely 100% recommend steering clear of ProjectEV (also called growatt). The charger always disconnects from my WiFi so I have to restart it every time I want to set a timed charge. And I had nothing but trouble with the company.

First they never booked in my install after confirming the date, so the engineer never showed up. Then recently, I needed the ground rod fixing and they took about a month before they sent someone out

[neilgall]

I have an Andersen A2 charger which is mostly pretty good. The hardware is excellent and looks attractive on the front of the house. Works well with my Mégane and the plugin hybrid I had previously. Integrates with my solar panels so will charge the car when there's excess solar power. The mobile app and backend service that supports it are adequate at best however. They get the job done but don't exactly fill me with joy.

[prettyvacant511]

Just got my Megane and charger installed in the last few weeks, really enjoying it so far and this forum also helped me with install of my dashcam hardwiring kit so thanks for that!!

I went with the Easee one, it’s small, decent looking, loads of functional and safety features, added bonus it looks like Dark Helmet from Spaceballs which makes me chuckle every time I look at it!

[sinlessUK]

I use a Ohme Home Pro supplied and fitted by https://proev.co.uk/

[Rico1975]

Ohme pro here 2. Charge between 00:00 & 06:00 currently costs less than a £5

[John.Peek]

I got the Hypervolt fitted by Octopus as we needed the 10m cable to be able to reach both cars comfortably. It's registered to a 50kwH car so I just multiply the charge I want in the Octopus app by 6/5 which works perfectly. Intelligent Go is working out so cheap.

[prettyvacant511]

Just to update on my experience with my Easee One. I had a power cut last week which resolved itself after a few hours.

Next day, I get emails from Easee about a failed firmware update, charger was showing red warning light and app was warning about “over voltage”. Reset the charger and warnings disappeared, charging worked normally.

Original installer came back on Thursday to reroute the cable install, when he finished and booted it back up, overvoltage error reappeared and this time wouldn’t clear.

Contacted Easee support, they tested from their end and confirmed it had hit a critical error and needed replacement. They sent warranty claim form over immediately, replacement unit dispatched same day and received 24 hours later. Great support from Easee, support process was best I’ve had

[Thermal runaway]

Hi hughhewitt,

I had a Zappi installed after a recommendation from a neighbour, and it's absolutely fine.

If I had any gripe it's that the App has quite a bit of lag.

If I was doing it all again I would possibly fit a charger that integrates more perfectly with inverter on the house and solar panels.

Some people have had trouble charging their Renaults with the Zappi, (Mr EV) but I have had no issues with that at all.
The charge port on a ZOE is a bit tight.

Good luck!