True Kezo. In some circumstances, you can get a charger fitted if your looped. The charger MB fit now is an ohme and that can load balance. So if you like me, and next door is looped to me. I have a 60A cut-out, and the load balancing is set to that. So if ever the load was over the ohme would reduce to half power, or if the CT clamp isn’t working.
I’ve not once hit that. I did look into getting a bigger fuse fitted and de-looping next door to us, and it was agreed, but the sub-contractors didn’t turn up to do the initial survey of works needed.
Maybe our looping is a strange one. Next to my fuse, is another smaller brown box attached to our cutoff, and a wire comes from that goes through the wall to nextdoor then another returns into the top of our cutoff. I’m no expert, all I know is had no issues getting the charger installed.
Now my meter is under the stairs, as is next door, it’s a semi-detached. So there is also. The plan was for them to have the meter moved outside. They agreed to it all. Then another company was taking over the works and their guy came round and said they won’t do the work as they won’t touch next door inside, without even looking at next door. As the consumer unit is also under the stairs inside the house.
Really I need to get back onto National grid who are the DNO, but for now there’s no issue. As it’s an older house, the main wire in he said is much thicker than newer ones. I am considering getting maybe just batteries and not solar panels, as we live in a 3-story townhouse built in the 1920s. Which I can charge overnight when not charging the car, and run most of the daytime energy off those. We average about 7.5kw a day during peak times. Again, I have no real clue as to what or the costs to have it done, obviously as cheaply as possible.
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