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The Government bless them have mandated all chargers should be "smart". You are not allowed to sell a "dumb" charger anymore. They though every EV driver would come home at 5pm and plug their car in and charge immediately. The grid already being at peak demand would grid to a halt with the additional load.
A fairly pointless mandate because much of the required timers or ability to link with Octopus are built into most cars anyway, in which case you would just need a "dumb" charger. Collectively we have 3 EV's and 2 chargers. With Octopus energy I can only link one smart charger, so the second charger needs dumb with a simple 23:30-05:30 timer. Then I can have all 3 EV's set to charge immediately and it doesn't matter which charger they are plugged into. A better mandate would have been all chargers should have a SIMPLE timer, NOT "smart", not requiring an app or a degree in pigeon English. Simple economics (night time juice being 1/4 the price of day time juice) would incentive most people to charge at night so please BRING BACK DUMB CHARGERS !
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New WiFi router and now my EV charger doesn't work. So I have this Ecocharge Wheels charger because it was the dumbest smart charger I could find at the right price as a second charger. I could set it to stop & start charging to fit with Octopus intelligent go (you could only link one "smart" remote controlled charger at the time). Managed to get it working eventually. 2 years later a new WiFi router & I cant talk to the charger, so it needs re pairing with the new WiFi router. Nothing in the manual on how to factory reset the Ecowheels charger. Nothing on the website. No reply from the email / phone number inactive but the robot put me through to technical department that eventually showed how to reset it. Push the button 16-20s until the light goes purple, then press the button twice. It should then revert to green. and be discoverable again via the SmartLife app. Obviously 🤔 
One niggle with the charger is you have it set to charge 23:30 - 5:30 but you come home at midnight & plug in - IT DOESN'T CHARGE -
Why- because it was not plugged in at 23:30 so you have to swipe the card to activate it. My old "dumb" charger would have worked just fine. |
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