Tom McConnell
Established Member
The SSE engineer arrived on time at 1pm today to check the meter box and main fuse.Tomorrow I have an engineer from SSE coming to inspect my main fuse, meter cabinet and to turn the electricity off and on to make sure it is safe for the 7kw charger.
A week on Friday I have an electrical contractor in to install the 32a breaker in the meter cabinet. Then BP Pulse Chargemaster can schedule the engineer to do the install.
All being well tomorrow !
Though since buying the MG 5 at the end of January I have only traveled 350 miles so using the granny charger and 3 rapid charges has been convenient enough. Only benefit of the home charger will be the 5ppkwh when I switch over to Octopus Go and charging in just a few hours. Not keen on the 35ppkwh at the rapid chargers.
He checked the main fuse, which had 100A on it, but found it was actually 60A !!
He said that most houses like mine would have had 60A originally, but why it had a 100A plastic cover is anyone's guess !
So he replaced the fuse with a 100A unit.
The tails (wires from fuse to meter and then to the consumer unit) are 25mm, so suitable for 100A. If they had been 15mm then they were for 60A and would have had to be changed.
Also he said that the 32A breaker scheduled to be installed next week cannot be put into the meter box according to regulations, but has to be external. We will see what the contractor wants to do next week !