Reply To: Mobility – Ohme off street parking

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bigmac
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    Nowt wrong with a commando socket, as long as it has an isolation switch built in to cover the connection point. You do loose PEN fault protection with commando sockets but there are O-PEN devices you can get hold of. Not strictly necessary but, I’d certainly invest in one especially as your car will be on a public road. The good thing with Commando sockets, there is no need to inform the DNO and all the other fath. Many use them as a charging means for a second a EV and are popular amongs’t Tesla owners. If the EV you want is compatible with Octopus/OVO EV tariffs, you can use the car to schedule chargers, so you don’t need the likes of Ohme chargers and there are plenty of decent chargers around the £300 with PEN protection sold at trade prices on ebay.

    Im getting the VW iD4 so believe it would be compatible, looked into the Pen protection for commando and it seems a lot of money for a Pen unit. I can get my local sparky to install socket for £200 (not sure if that’s good or bad) but adding the Pen would add a fair bit to costs.

     

    I will have a look on eBay for chargers with Pen protection but if they are around £300 I would have to pay for installation on top so could work out near £500