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Has the charging rate been capped to 3kw?
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<blockquote data-quote="binky" data-source="post: 537481" data-attributes="member: 490"><p>It's your grid connection. In short when they design the electrical systems to provide leccy to your house they work on the principal that not all the houses will be using lots of power at the same time, so whilst you may have say an 80 Amp main fuse, they have probably only allowed something like 40Amps. They also don't like backfeeding more than 30% of the local transformer's capacity. They have to allow 16A by law, and treat batteries as capable of backfeeding the grid as well as charging from it. However 16A is 3.62kw, so your installer is not correct, and as I said earlier you can apply for a higher ampage. Sometimes the local network can cope with a higher load, sometimes it can't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="binky, post: 537481, member: 490"] It's your grid connection. In short when they design the electrical systems to provide leccy to your house they work on the principal that not all the houses will be using lots of power at the same time, so whilst you may have say an 80 Amp main fuse, they have probably only allowed something like 40Amps. They also don't like backfeeding more than 30% of the local transformer's capacity. They have to allow 16A by law, and treat batteries as capable of backfeeding the grid as well as charging from it. However 16A is 3.62kw, so your installer is not correct, and as I said earlier you can apply for a higher ampage. Sometimes the local network can cope with a higher load, sometimes it can't. [/QUOTE]
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