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Proud of myself: my new OpenEVSE installation (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 days ago by hylobates@jlai.lu to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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Background story: had an OpenEVSE since 2021. But it was hidden in the crawl space under the house since then. No attached cable, it was a Type 2 socket installation.

Recently got an issue with the aforementioned female Type 2 socket (no more ground, faulty lines, etc…) so I decided to move everything back into the sunshine.

That’s not the prettiest installation, but it’s working and the attached cable makes it way easier to use.

Next step would be to move it inside an old gas pump for decoration and laughs!

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[–] hylobates@jlai.lu 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

EU (French) user: 7.2kWh line (32A@230V), no particular regulation, this is a standard installation for oven in France. The only mandatory thing that comes to mind is: it has to be hardwired.

[–] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

And no safety regulation? No CE marking, no refuse to operate if the gnd line is not well established, no gracefully fail without degrading the safety?

Edit: fast Google search returns several iec (62955), CE marking, and some other low power directives (this is country dependent) which may be enforced via Sw.

I don't know OP, I am by no mean an expert, but I would spend a bit of time navigating for the terrible passionating world of regulations and directives :(

[–] hylobates@jlai.lu 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

And no safety regulation? No CE marking, no refuse to operate if the gnd line is not well established, no gracefully fail without degrading the safety?

Safety is builtin: https://openev.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/6000113537-openevse-safety-features

There are some information about ground line. I’ve experienced it myself while my type 2 socket was malfunctioning: OpenEVSE cuts everything pretty quickly in case there is more than 150ohms on ground or more than 20mA leak to ground.

My brother is an electrician and helped me install it 4 years ago. Basically, as long as you have the right panel, there should be no issue.

[–] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks.

Last question, is it necessary to have the safety/ standard compliance certified by an external authority? If yes, how is it done? Same for the sw/FW updates

[–] hylobates@jlai.lu 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

As far as I know in France specifically, your installation must be done by a certified installer if and only if you want to take advantage of the tax credit for installing an EVSE at home.

Basically that would mean paying 1200€ to have 600€ back in tax credit. Better install it yourself for less than 300€ and a big afternoon of work IMHO.

If you don’t call a certified installer, any electrician can do it and, as far as I know, no one can force you to have a certification for this. Same installation as an electric oven, so basically something pretty standard overall.

Regarding software/firmware updates, I honestly don’t know. It’s open, so I guess you could see if the security part is done properly (or touched at all for that matter…).

[–] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the answers