Is this the Easiest Electric Vehicle Charging Point Installation Ever?
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 30. 07. 2021
- Is this the Easiest Electric Vehicle Charging Point Installation Ever?
Join me as I try out yet another Electric Vehicle Charging Point at my own home, this time i'm installing an Easee Charging Robot! In this video I show you the process of installing this electric vehicle charging point, and some of its interesting features!
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Installed maybe 100 of the Easee EV chargers myself in Norway. Lovely charger. East to install and very little issues with it compared to other chargers i have installed in the past. Cant wait to see what Cory thinks of it :D
you forgot to mention, Easee has âback entryâ so when possible, garage walls for example, our fitters will drill through and rear cable the backplateâŠlooks really cool , and no ugly cable!!!
I am a certified Easee installer in Norway and we love these. Have one myself for my EGolf too.
The blanking plate is a great idea for new build houses - round here the planners are currently satisfied if they install an outdoor 3 pin socket âto enable easier future installationâ of a charger which is farcical. This would be far better, pre-cabled with the appropriate size cable etc but without the cost of supplying the whole thing.
Due to fit 2 Easee Charge and 2 Easee Ready units at a local school. Really excited to get my hands on these and finding out how easy to install they really are. Great video as always đ
I've been only installing easee chargers the last two years. They are brilliant. Especially paired with a good power provider.
As a DIY homeowner in America, the one downside I've found of hiring proper tradespeople is that for some reason they tend to dislike reading the instructions first. I often read the instructions online before I even buy an item - and the quality of the instructions often reflects the quality of the product.
I have a Easee charger. Works great with smart charging from my power company Tibber here in Norway .
You forgot the most important feature for installing them in groups: Once you configure one, you can pop it out of the baseplate and pop the others in one after the other---they will read the stored configuration from the baseplate. Quite important if you have 101 of these and don't want to stand there for hours and hours with your phone...
As a sparky from norway, i love theese chargers! They are really good!
The board you fitted is called OSB, and is used in many construction works. It is normally designed for inside use. I think it needs painting or staining, and would look nice in the same green as the fence or front door. Great video.
It's most certainly NOT marine plywood !
Hi. I got one of the first batch of chargers and it has been mounted outside for a while. Never had any problem with water. Even when the cable was coming in from the top. Paid about 457ÂŁ for it in Norway. Now itâs mounted inside the garage.
Great video as usual Jordan! Been looking forward for your review and install of the Easee, this as I have had one of them for about year here in Sweden and been very happy with it and planning to get another one for the loadbalancing once we get another plug-in vehicle. Really like that I can lock and leave my type2 cable at home.
Absolutely amazing charger this, I am an electrician in Norway and we just use this charger. The home version is even easier to install as you don't need site key or anything. Literally done in 10 seconds after having connected it.
These chargers look like a great idea for new Builds and install the robot as and when its needed đ
Thanks again for for sharing your information !
Hi Jordan, The wood is oriented strand board (OSB) and it needs protecting with wood stain, or it will peel apart in no time atoll.
That wall looks like swiss cheese!
Thanks for the video I'm going to be fitting these chargers soon...đ
Makes a change you usually find people dumping their rubbish in other people's skips not removing it!! Keep up the good work and stay safe.
5.0Nm torque for the mains terminals on an Easee charger đȘ
Thanks for the info!
Funny thing it's written inside the charger beside the terminals.
@@artisanelectrics do you do RAMS & METHOD STATEMENTS FOR EACH JOB YOU CARRY OUT ??
The wood looked like OSB not marine ply - you will need to seal the ends
Paint it too! Looks a bit đ€ź at the moment!
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@artisanelectrics do you do RAMS & METHOD STATEMENTS FOR EACH JOB YOU CARRY OUT ??
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I was pleased you kept up the Swiss cheese tradition and drilled new holes for the the board rather than recycling a few of the 150 existing holes :-)
Honestly, I much preferred the Hypervolt unit for a domestic wall box Jordan.
Glad to see you have fitted a backer board - at last !.
An "off cut" of marine ply would be a better longer term option.
Will John returning to team - "Nice".
The next charger for you to install and test have to be the zaptec charger, which is another charger made in Norway... :-)
Loving the mask ;) At least the weather held off for most of it! Have a good weekend.
Thanks, you too!
Also, you can use the Easee Installers apps to create sites directly in the app. This allows you to use your phones RFID writer to write all configs directly to the white RFID tag in the wall mount.
Coming from east coast of Canada I'm cringing at using laminated strand board outside. Get some pressure treated wood for this so it doesn't rot / attract insects. But otherwise that looks like a smart little compact unit. You could even likely custom 3d print faceplates for it too.
What a great product.
So many charger tests - you need to start a league table and give them a score.
With all these Cloud connected chargers, it would be a useful test to see how they function if the Internet connection is unavaliable.
The charger makes its own wifi point, that you can log on with your cell and make adjustments to the charging speed and so on. you can also put in an phone card to supply the charger with is own 4g connection, but I have never tried that.
Allso if you pair it with tibber you could set your offline charging speed in A.
The Easee units come with an inbuilt e-sim, comms are excellent on these.
Even if these lose connection to the servier they have a fall-back system that allows the system to charge your car, if it's being used to forward charging info to a 3rd party supplier (for charging a work vehicle paid by company for example) that data is stored locally and uploaded back to the server once back online.
0:50 Can you tell the homeowner to turn their olive tree occasionally? It's leaning towards the sun.
Its my house so yes I can
@@artisanelectrics the plywood board that is too big you should be marked and cut it on the size of the charging case with a skillsaw now looks like unprofessional work
@@emilgemc8913 It's OSB not Ply and OSB ALWAYS looks shit anyway.
@@emilgemc8913 he doesnât care if it looks unprofessional itâs his house , and heâs more bothered about ruining the wall than the length of the wood
@@emilgemc8913 No, the backing shouldn't be sized to the charger that you install. The whole point is that over the next 100 years there may be 10 different chargers of different sizes installed in the same spot. The backing should be reasonably sized to accommodate most charger form factors. Perhaps, just as electricians don't like carpenters doing electrical work, one should consult a carpenter to design a good backing using material that will hold up well in the weather and look nice. Then the carpenter could either make up a batch or advise on what materials to keep on hand to make as needed. One could even paint the backing for the next day's job the night before with an appropriate color.
Sounds like a good system.
Wish you were in North America. Itâs often rare to see someone take pride in their work as you do.
Thanks a lot
Just had one of these fitted yesterday, as they're being installed for free for electric Motability car owners, and can confirm that it has PEN fault detection now, as it threw this error about 2 hours after being installed. Has been resolved now though :-)
Did you reuse any of the old holes for the board, or did 4 more holes appear.
Looks like he might have been able to re use 2 holes and the bottom on is the new one.
Unless the bottom one was a cable clip hole already.
Great video mate keep it up always love the content, hope ur having a great weekend đ.
Thanks, you too!
Better watch out Chris @ CJR is installing Zappi's now... Time for a head to head competition! đđ
Thanks for a great and informative video! Would you recommend getting this over the Tesla wall charger for a model 3?
I like the idea of the baseplate. If the company releases a better version in the next few years you can just pop the old one off and a new one on.
Had one for almost a year, not had a problem so far. Some of the smart features you don't mention is that with the use of RFID we can split costs. I have an RFID card for my work van (Work installed via local fuel supplier who also supply fuel cards for our non-electric fleet). So long as I start the charger with the RFID registered to that account, all charging for that is recorded, documented and ends up back with work, who then refund the electricity costs for charging their van. If we have guests who need a charge, I can start with the app, and that shows a personal use.
We're looking at a 2nd car in a while, which will be electric, so as the cablings already there we can simply add a 2nd unit, and let them figure it out. Being 3-phase ready also means it's 22KW capable out the box, as long as you have a 3-phase supply. Ours is cabled as 1 phase, but just upgraded house feed to 3 phase (1x50A doesn't go far with elec heating, cooking, and a van to charge, domestic gas is not normal here in Norway, at least outside Oslo) , and we have that option later should we end up with a vehicle supporting 3-phase charge (not many do yet).
Sorry, your Norwgian accent was poor . . says the Scotsman in Norway. ;)
Ive fitted a couple of those chargers now, great piece of kit, have you tried the proteus consumer unit with pen fault bulti in yet ?
While the rain was falling you could have prepared the OSB wood...rounding the corners and sealing (or painting) it...especially the edges...would have been good.
It would make it look better and have the added benefit of keeping future water ingress from happening.
As soon as it has pen fault detection built in it will be a good option going forward.
Ahahahha great video ! We need Artisan Skip Supplies merchandise
This is the charger that I'm looking at for our flat allocated space. 4g connection is a big win for us.
Thanks Jordan for another interesting video.
I mush prefer a tethered charger my self. Also calling it a robot is a bit misleading ha ha was expecting it to do all the work for you
Great videos Jordan. So would you say that the hypervolt is your favourite ev charger now.
I have an Eve Proline charger at home, would love to see you check them out and review!
You finally took on my suggestion of a backing board đ.
an artisan miracle! đđđ jk jordan, great find on the board! save the swiss cheese wall! (you should fill the olde holes i think!)
Heâll need to drill at least one more hole to do Coryâs brickdust-trick to hide the filled holes
Very useful information here. I'm looking at the lower-spec 'home' model as part of my checks before taking the EV plunge.
Have you ever done an install where the unit itself is in the garage and the Type 2 port is actually split/spurred into 2 wires ... where one wire goes to one side of the garage (and is then fed through the wall to an external-wall-mounted Type 2 'dock/port') and the other wire goes to the opposite side of the garage (and is then fed through the wall to another external-wall-mounted Type 2 'dock/port')?
I can't garage a car (garage is way too small) but I'd like the wall unit inside - and have the ability to plug in a Type 2 cable from the outside - from either side of the garage using one or the other wall mounted ports - without needing to go into the garage. I'd just enable the charge via an app (or the car planner/some other way).
Finally a test of easee, fun to watch. With mine, there was a small padlock included that you can mount under the lid. I do not have wifi so I use the built-in mobile broadband that is in the box at no extra cost. In Sweden, this is one of the cheapest chargers, but still the one with perhaps the most features built-in. Very satisfied after one year of use.
wood is OSB or orientated strand board will eventually succumb to moisture if you don't seal the cut edges , pva would do
Loving the content as always! Still prefer the Zappi though đ€Ł
Thanks! I prefer the Hypervolt and Zappi units as well
Want to see the robot function, how does it plug itself in?
Have these chargers got PEN fault protection built in yet, ? Great vid !
artisan vader! đđ
nice diddy gadget... tbh, i like đ
This charger is perfect for domestic use as well, but it's not really designed for the UK market, and your regulations( Hence the lacking PEN fault detection). To get the most out of this charger you need to link it aginst the Tibber smart app( Tibber is a electricity provider on the Norwegian market) and install the Tibber Pulse( monitoring device for domestic installations). That way you charge during the periods of the day when electricity is cheap, and the pulse and Easee charger communicates and makes sure that your main fuse is not overloaded :)
Thanks for sharing
Would be easy to have a spare unit on site for a commercial install. So if a charger goes down you can just swap it out easily until you can get it looked at.
Yeah thats a good point
@@artisanelectrics Our work installed about 50 of these for our fleet of nissan E-NV200s we use, so far no issues anywhere (other than a few cases with limited supply to the house meaning using the timer functions were essential, as cooking + charging together tripped the standard 50A main fuse in the house, simply using the app to drop the max feed to the van also reduces that issue, and still plenty time for overnight charging.
I'm an IT guy but certainly not an electrician this would be a fairly easy install for me. I think the average customer would have problems installing this one vs the other ones you've installed. I dow however like the RFID feature. I wear a RDID ring and this would be great and would prevent a neighbor from trying to use this when I'm not home.
Here's a suggestion for the wood you installed. To me this looks like interior wood so consider replacing it with pressure treated lumber later. If you're going to use it then buy a really good exterior sealant and/or paint. Wood like that will breakdown over time and with the type of environment you have over there it will deteriorate fast.
Nice video.
You should "paint" your backboard with some Yacht Varnish, that should stop it from absorbing water.
Also instead of that bit of wood(looks abit naff) could you install that metal plate sheet with holes in( like the stuff you hang tools on?) and then bolt the different charges to that? save you drilling holes in wall
I'm using this charger to charge my Tesla Model S with 230V 3fas 32A, main fuse 50A, charger fuse 40A and 10mm2 cable. All with in the 20% safety spec. Topping out at 8.6kW with 243V.
I also have three of those currently we only have one car a Zoe, three-phase 32A 400V so 22kW charging... 50A three-phase main fuses that are basically unused to anything else.
These Easee chargers are the best. Or at least gives the "most bang for the buck".
It is a good practise to drill holes in the mortar, that allows an easy repair repointing the brickwork. Filling in the bricks is not so easy.
When your only customer is the CEO of Artisan Electrics himself
26:40 : Regarding fault detections:
Majority of of Norwegian homes have IT or TT , TN is only common in newly build neighborhoods.
Standing off the OSB board would make it so that it could be rear entry and then not worry about screws / lags getting into the brick. Easy stand offs are small 1" PVC pipe cuts run screw thru them. Some nice epoxy paint would make the OSB last a lot longer! OSB doesn't do good with water. I am assuming the Mrs of the house won't like the big chunk of wood on the side of 'her' house! đđđ
very nice, looks sleek and indeed easy in many ways ... however I'm puzzled, why is this called a "robot", it has absolutely nothing "robotic" about it :)
Great video, great channel, keep it up!
Did CZcams finally bully you into not drilling more holes in the wall? đ
Missed a chance for a click bait title here - "CZcams makes Jordan get wood" đ đ
LOL
15.06 so basically if I just buy a charger I can drive around and look for blank installs and just pop the cover off and get a free charge!
Thanks for the heads up!
Only if they are stupid enough to leave the system like that and live.
@@horatiupogoreanu6422 Yes, but he has the robot and the code.
Looks a rank installation
Have to install pen fault detection matt e device with this, try not lose that tool to remove the cover, dont know how you would loop out of the device with two cables when you want to run the cabling bottom entry. I think installing a zappi is easier imo.
âMaybe itâs both!â đđđ
Hi Jordan lâm thinking of getting one of these Easse Chargers, been recommended by an EVO Installer, you stated that you would provide an update in a few weeks, whatâs your verdiit?
Good video Jordan although I have to say that all looked a bit of a Phafff setting that up and the fact it has no pen fault detection would put me off for now. The Zappi 2 still takes the beating imo or the Anderson charger.
Not sure that red cover would appeal to many customers...Royal Mail might like them though đđ.
Keep the great content coming mate đđ»
Haha yeah I agree, interesting to try it out tho!
Amazing
Thanks
Basic question : Could you put in 3 units on a single phase with 100amp main fuse ?
Hello, i have the same easee home :-)
I'm lovin it!
Greetings from germany.
Hello there! Glad to hear from someone who has this unit.
We found the charge port rubber cover doesnât stay closed after a short time - bit of a design oversight âčïž
@@inderinderinder please contact Easee support, and they will happily send you a new rubber cover :)
@@eirikco thank you đ
Any chance you could do a video on '2022 chargers you are happy to recommend'
The backboard looked like OBS / Sterling Board. From my experience even with the edges sealed water will still get into it and it will start to swell, delaminate and generally look a mess. Perhaps a plastic backboard would have been a better option
This seems like any standard EVSE installation and setup. Same style install as Tesla Wall connector with the exception that the cable is modular.
Is it OK to leave a home charger on the wall outside in the open like that? Rain won't mess it up? Or do you need to get a special one that is designed to be outside rather than inside?
Hi Jordan, What do you do with all your âusedâ chargers?. This latest charger is not at all attractive, and does not look like it comes with a tethered connector. However, enjoyed the vid as usual, especially Darth Vader at the beginning!
I keep them all, I am gonna put the Hypervolt back soon as I agree with you the Easee doesn't look nice for domestic scenarios and also I prefer having a tethered unit.
Do you know what energy meters are compatible with BMW Wallbox Connect? I eas searching in BMW web, but no news.
Great channel and videos!!
No idea
The Easee ev charger, comming to you from Norway's oil capital.
It's quite exspensive, but compact.
I used to do computer support at a tree surgeon. They had a skip outside that you could just take scrap wood from. Of course, they were just tree offcuts, so wouldn't have been much use to you, unless you fancied mounting your charger on a log!!!??? đ€Ł
Hey Jordan, you should use Coreyâs brick dust and silicon trick to fill the holes in your wall. Iâve been using it for years and it works great as long as you can accumulate enough brick dust
When you install multiple units, how do the communicate for load sharing? Do they use their own local network or do you need to link them with a data cable?
I think it works wirelessly
Apart from that retaining screw, is there anything to stop anyone pinching the charger? It probably wouldnât be much use without the ability to register it, but still a pain and cost if it is stolen.
You can attach a padlock on top of the robot (inside the enclosure) which would block anyone from pushing it up an off off the backplate.
Maybe you could take off the charger and put on the blanking plate when you're away from home for weeks to prevent unauthorised usage, unless you have locking at the source or app.
This is the same as the ICS car chargers đ
Jordan! I thought you didn't fit junk. OSB is not marine ply. good vid as always though.
For the nipple type grommets, drop it in a cup of boiling water while your drinking you tea, then a bit of silicone spray on the cable and it should stretch and slide over and form a nice tight perfect seal. đ
3:13 - That is a small piece of OSB. I'll be interested to see what magic you perform on that to avoid papier-mache the next text it rains.
Hi Jordon, your wooden back board is Sterling board, not Marine plywood.. unfortunately it won't last too long.. Nice install as always, keep the videos coming ..
Osb 3 board is surprisingly weather resistant due to the resin finish, just needs to seal the cut ends, probably last year's.
Maybe wait til it dries out and varnish it
@@crystalwindowcleaning6019 Whenever I have used it down here in Cornwall it does not last long, and I have sealed the edges..
As you disconnected the CT's is there anything to limit the charger so you do not blow the service fuse?
I would like to know this as well?
I am surprised they don't use a proper cable gland which compresses on the cable give the sensitivity of the unit . The rubber nibble seems abit Heath Robinson how can you accurately cut that to wire dimeter??