Thanks for the balanced and honest reviews, Nicolas. They're appreciated. We'll not have a home charger in the foreseeable future, unless the law changes, because of having no off street parking, but keeping an eye on the technology is educational and interesting, 🙂👍
I love my Zappi, one point to note tho, is you have to be exporting a minimum of 1.4kW before it'll kick in & start charging the car. Any less & it'll just say waiting for surplus. When u had the app showing on the screen it had paused the charge due to insufficient solar generation!
Zappi is a great charger. Though you cannot use a third CT clamp to monitor batteries if your batteries are DC. AC is fine. Thats what their help line told me.
Technically right but all home units tend to be DC however it will go threw an AC converter before entering your homes electrics so to monitor it you put the CT clamp on the tail leaving the battery as the DC to AC converter is usally part of the battery packaging unless you've made your own or have some Chinese brand system in which case you put it after the inverter
@@NicolasRaimo Thanks. I did ring Myenergi to try and sort this so I could monitor the batteries etc via the hub, I even gave them the battery name and model number and was told it wasn't possible. I think its because I have a growatt hybrid inverter, so both the batteries and solar input the same inverter, with 1 ac out to the electrics. I'm no expert though. Your thoughts?
Great video, thank you. you kept saying you can make it so it doesn't drain a battery, but how do you make sure it DOES drain a battery? + is that configurable? i.e. drain the battery, but only down to 50% then leave the remainder for the evening's home usage. Thanks!
Hi Thanks for making this vid. It has just answered all the questions i had, primarily how to avoid the battery discharging into the car when i am wanting to save the battery for the house peak. Regards. Looking forward to more vids
Harvi signal struggles over 30-40 metres depending on obstructions. It can only limit or see 65A (I think) also, so if your trying to protect 100A fuse from overloading, need to hard wire the CT's straight to zappi
21:35 As an Ex Network Engineer/Planner, there's virtually NO EXCUSE for your servers to be unavailable due to a 'Network' issue. This is basically a unprotected backbone with no diversity either through using a single provider, or using multiple provider's using the last hop over the same infrastructure (Duct, Path, Exchange, Colocation, Provider etc etc). It's poor disaster recovery planning to have your services provided over the same Operator/Path/ or duct. Everyone in the business could tell them they need a diverse Network with multiple providers entering the building from at least two independent directions into two Telecoms rooms, at opposite ends of the building, using independent UPS and Generator backed systems for both area's and possibly 2 separate power supplies for both rooms (same for the servers). If you can't do this in house then host it with someone that does, across at least 2 sites interlinked as well for even greater redundancy! There's plenty of colocation sites around with exactly this infrastructure that Virtually Guarantees 100% up time!
Hi Nick, great video as always. Have you had chance to do an up to date review of the Andersen A2 yet.? I'm kinda leaning toward the Andersen but have started to read its maybe not as good as it claims(?) so now thinking about the less aesthetically pleasing Zappi. We have solar pv, a Solar iBoost and looking to get home battery storage in the next 6 months. Plus we're already on Octopus Agile.
Please feel free to email Andersons saying your waiting for my review before you consider purchasing.... As so far they don't seem to want to be part of this series and I'd very much like them to be
@@NicolasRaimo thanks for the reply Nick. Hmmm... what does that say about Andersen.? You seem to be very knowledgeable with regards to all(?) things ev.... do you know what the average length of charging cable is that is supplied with each car (not the granny charger...)
Great video, really helpful. Do you know if the Zappi can be used to charge a house battery system from the grid - ie take the low tariff (Octopus Go) at night and charge the house battery if the EV doesn't need it or is not connected?
curious if you have a 3-fas connected home. wont you need 4 clamps? so that the effect meter per fase wil be regulated over the 3 fases to the car charger. Else your main fuses blow out constantly if all 3 fases are being loaded the same. I have a heatpump in my home using sometimes alot on one fase but the other fases are not being used as much.
Hi Nick, great video. Had good solar today and charging house batteries. When house batteries reached 100% connected EV to charge of solar. But house batteries promptly starting discharging into car. How do I stop that? Would welcome comprehensive video on use of Myenergy app with solar, batteries, eddi, zappi and EV. Many thanks
Or you on a hybrid solar system with battery on same inverter as solar? For this to work your need to get something like home assistant and get zappi and your battery working on that to automate your own fix tweet me on Twitter and I’ll try get someone who’s done same to maybe help, video on installing home assistant on channel
I'm thinking about getting the Ford E-Transit for next year. Am I right in thinking I don't need one of these wall chargers for my home, as I have no solar panels anyway? Considering I could just use the supplied mobile charger with the 32A commando plug (if it is a 32A size plug instead of 16A). What are the pros/cons of one over the other? I've been looking at some of your other videos but not yet found anything about this.
Hi Tommy the van will come with a type 2 to type 2 plug your need a home charger unit like this to plug it in at home, this unit is one of a few chargers this one shown is just better for solar or battery storage and also for agile so it lets you future proof your install but check out the other chargers also. If you go to my playlist section on my channel theres a link to all the reviews. There is also a link to why you shouldn't be charging using a 3 pin plug and why i also don't recommend a commando style system the reason for the last 2 is down is the safety aspects that these units come with electrically.
Zappi still does not work with the VW ID3 when trying to charge on eco mode on a sunny day. As soon as it gets cloudy , the Zappi switches to the house and the car goes to sleep and needs manually waking to charge when the sun comes out. This is a real pain . Robert Llewelyn also had issues with Zappi and the VW ID3 and VW I D4 I gather.
