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I own and use the charger you linked and it's been working well - although we've only had it for about 4 months so far. I'm in South Australia and had an electrician install two 15A outlets in the carport, one connected to my off-peak controlled load and one to the regular house load. The charger is mounted on the wall adjacent. At night it's plugged into the off-peak, and if we're charging during the day from solar we just swap it to the daytime supply - simple but works well for us. I find the 15A charge rate is a boon for mid-day charging at the weekend where the car's been out in the morning and we want to charge before going out again later in the day; charge time is around 2.5 hours.The charger can be set to 10A or 6A also via a weird shake-to-change method, but we don't tend to bother. Arguably it may be a bit better for the battery to charge at 10A overnight when there's plenty of time to do so, but really even 15A / 3.6kW is a low charge rate for the battery, which is designed to charge at much higher power than that during normal regen braking or via the CHADEMO DC socket.[ATTACH=full]436[/ATTACH]
I own and use the charger you linked and it's been working well - although we've only had it for about 4 months so far. I'm in South Australia and had an electrician install two 15A outlets in the carport, one connected to my off-peak controlled load and one to the regular house load. The charger is mounted on the wall adjacent. At night it's plugged into the off-peak, and if we're charging during the day from solar we just swap it to the daytime supply - simple but works well for us. I find the 15A charge rate is a boon for mid-day charging at the weekend where the car's been out in the morning and we want to charge before going out again later in the day; charge time is around 2.5 hours.
The charger can be set to 10A or 6A also via a weird shake-to-change method, but we don't tend to bother. Arguably it may be a bit better for the battery to charge at 10A overnight when there's plenty of time to do so, but really even 15A / 3.6kW is a low charge rate for the battery, which is designed to charge at much higher power than that during normal regen braking or via the CHADEMO DC socket.
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