10amp charging home socket

[jonahjones]

Hi,

Quick question. Am charging with a standard socket in my garage. Charges fine at 10amp.

The socket is difficult to get to so is it ok to leave the socket on when the plug isn't connected to the car?

Thanks

 

[Sophias_dad]

Yes.

Aside from that, 10 amps is a strange current. Have you turned it down from the usual 12 ?

 

[jonahjones]

Thanks
. Not turned it down. It selected 10 by default. I'm in the UK.

 

[MacO512]

UK has switches on all the sockets. In states we don't, so all our sockets are left "always on". Might be situations switch off is safer, but here it's out of the way, and I'd think that's extremely rare where it's safer anyways. Sounds fine to me.

 

[davewill]

Hi,

Quick question. Am charging with a standard socket in my garage. Charges fine at 10amp.

The socket is difficult to get to so is it ok to leave the socket on when the plug isn't connected to the car?

Thanks

I don't think it will matter whether you leave it on or not. The EVSE will draw a little current, but not a lot. The only thing I would avoid is turning it off while the car is actually charging. Switching off maximum current can't be good for the switch.

Note: in this section you're going to get mostly USA responses. There's a UK specific forum where you will get more UK readers. I would also suggest amending your location in your profile to specify the UK.