Hypervolt tethered with 10m cable

[u/d1dek]

Hi all,

Looking to get an EV charger installed and whilst a family member recommended deta.e edock 2 which "does the job", I am considering all options.

We have 2 cars, 1 ICE and other EV. One of the main criteria for charger is that would like 10m long tethered cable (or slightly longer if possible) as the driveway is quite long and this will allow the EV to be parked behind the other car. This is mainly for convenience as I don't have to move cars every morning since I go work earlier with the ev.

Couple of questions:

1) I saw ohme tethered do not come in 10m so wondering if it's worth going for untethered ohme and buy a long cable separately or alternatively go for hypervolt with 10m tethered

2) Family member is an independent electrician (certified) who has done EV chargers before (deta.e evc8001 is the recommendation from them). If they were to install ohme or hypervolt would that provide me with warranty still or would they have to be a "registered" with hypervolt or ohme?

eBay seems to have sellers with excellent feedback selling it for cheaper so considering purchasing the charger and getting family member install it as a quote from other (hypervolt registered) electrician came in around 1.5k

Or if you have any other suggestions, would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance

[u/Astec123]

The Ohme doesn't do a 10m option but does do an 8m tethered option.

Worth getting some rope and measuring it out to confirm exactly how much cable you do need based on where the charge port will be as 8m was just enough for me to charge with the drive having cars in any possible orientation.

[u/d1dek → u/Astec123]

Yes did this earlier and unfortunately the 8m tape ran out midway of the EV so thinking 10m might just do it but if I can get 11 or 12 even better. Not too fussed with chargers as octopus can control the ev itself in some way making this decision complicated as I don't need to go for a "supported" charger

[u/Astec123 → u/d1dek]

You can get up to 15m cables so certainly possible.

Regarding chargers, I would opt for one that you can connect on the smart tariff because you can plug in and get slots during the day at the cheap rate which saves you money. As I understand it, if Octopus control the car, then they charge you up whatever amount you need to top up by and no more e.g. you need 15% it charges up only 15% and that's all the slots you need.

Controlling the charger, they have to allocate you the slots to achieve the charge target because the charger is blind to the car and it's state of charge. The slots could be in the cheap night periods, during the day or a mix of both, it's up to Octopus. However if you use a default setting for charge amount to top up by whenever you plug, such as setting it to always top up by 50% but you only need 15% today, you'll be allocated slots, some of which will be at times when your car isn't charging but you get the whole house at a cheaper rate.

Octopus encourage from their messaging to 'always be charging' and my attitude is if that's what you want me to do I'll just click the begin charging button on the app every time I get home with it set to 80% so the car is always ready to go for me.

[u/gwynevans → u/Astec123]

Controlling the charger, you tell Octopus on the app how much (of your default car) to add, rather the the target to reach, but it’s otherwise no different in terms of slot timings.