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EV charger advice

So I've just bit the bullet. Chopped in my old ICE car and I'm waiting for a new EV due in September!

Our electrician who rewired our house is offering to install a Sync Energy wall charger for £584 because we already have the 32a cable routed and consumer unit upgrades done with the rewire last year. Has anyone had experience with these chargers?

We are with British Gas at the moment and may change to a BG, Octopus or Eon EV Tarrif down the line once we know how much energy we are using etc so we want one that should be suitable for each provider too.

We were warned off about Ohme ones because of problems with them and dodgy customer service apparently!

For the price, is it worth going with the Sync? It's a type 2, seems to be a reasonable cost based off how little I know!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated before we pull the trigger and install it. We are planning on an un-tethered one too if that changes out.

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u/KMG170 — 5 days ago
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EV supply + Gas Mains after re-wire

I recently had our house re-wired (by a professional company) as as part of it there was upgrades to the Consumer Unit + addition of a 32a power cable routed into my garage for a future EV supply (black cable going into grey box at the bottom)

I did mention I wanted the cable on the front of the garage, however when British gas came out they pointed out how unsafe it was and that I needed Electrical bonding. I've no idea, but I assumed that if it wasn't unsafe the team of electricians wouldn't have routed the cable there.

When I've looked I have bonding cables in a couple of places so I'm unsure what the request is and could do with advice to see if this set up is safe. Any advice would be much appreciated!

u/KMG170 — 7 days ago
▲ 7 r/AskElectricians

EV power supply and Gas Mains

I recently had our house re-wired (by a professional company) as as part of it there was upgrades to the Consumer Unit + addition of a 32a power cable routed into my garage for a future EV supply (black cable going into grey box at the bottom)

I did mention I wanted the cable on the front of the garage, however when British gas came out they pointed out how unsafe it was and that I needed Electrical bonding. I've no idea, but I assumed that if it wasn't unsafe the team of electricians wouldn't have routed the cable there.

When I've looked I have bonding cables in a couple of places so I'm unsure what the request is and could do with advice to see if this set up is safe. Any advice would be much appreciated!

u/KMG170 — 7 days ago
▲ 9 r/ukelectricians

EV power supply and gas mains

I recently had our house re-wired (by a professional company) as as part of it there was upgrades to the Consumer Unit + addition of a 32a power cable routed into my garage for a future EV supply (black cable going into grey box at the bottom)

I did mention I wanted the cable on the front of the garage, however when British gas came out they pointed out how unsafe it was and that I needed Electrical bonding. I've no idea, but I assumed that if it wasn't unsafe the team of electricians wouldn't have routed the cable there.

When I've looked I have bonding cables in a couple of places so I'm unsure what the request is and could do with advice to see if this set up is safe. Any advice would be much appreciated!

u/KMG170 — 7 days ago