Reply To: Ohme

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kezo
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    @kezo I’ve had a call from Motability who have said the unit needs to be changed and they’ve authorised a second charger, seeing as we have 2 EV’s.

    Thats not a bad outcome and prooves that it often pays going to the top!

    Unless you have 3 phase at your home, I hope some thought is applied, as to the brand of charger/s that are going to be installed. I’ll explain however, it may not be a concern…

    Looking at the Easee one charger for example, where upto 3 chargers can be daisy-chained togeter of the one circuit. This means, where there are 2 chargers installed (daisy-chained), if 2 vehicles are charged at the same time, the power is shared between them 7.4kW/2 (3.7kW each) however, the bonus with this set up is, if only 1 vehicle is charged, the power is the full 7.4kW.

    Ohme chargers do not have this feature, so it’s likely both chargers will be capped at 3.6kW each, dependant on several factors, including the maximum single phase load to your home (14,4kW, 19.2kW & 24kW) and what other equipment, you have in the home, taking into account diversty and whether it is permissable with the DNO however, the DNO could consider 3 phase/polyphase if there is enough capacity in your area and already availbe in your street, which imo would be benificial and come at no cost to you.