I'm looking at getting a Wall Charger (likely a TWC gen.3).
My trusted electrician has been out to inspect where we are wanting it, and the state of play with power-usage and available capacity in our consumer unit, however he said it is likely we won't be able to do much charging when utilities are in use at home, but the charger/car should be able to draw only enough to avoid tripping anything. Is this the case, can you control power draw, or is it automatically performed?
For the record, we live in a detached 1960s house, both of us are homeworking, with LED lights, a couple of powerful work high-end workstations, electric oven, kettle, blender, fridge, separate chest freezer, condensing dryer, washing machine, dishwasher, mesh wifi (Unifi, hardwired), smart home tech (heating, garden LED strip lighting, Sonos etc).
Is the electrician correct in assuming this would prevent the car from charging if other things were intermittently in use or would this trip the power? What is a robust solution to this? Or would a TWC/alternative charger get around this issue by carefully supplying under the max power draw?
Thanks in advance!
My trusted electrician has been out to inspect where we are wanting it, and the state of play with power-usage and available capacity in our consumer unit, however he said it is likely we won't be able to do much charging when utilities are in use at home, but the charger/car should be able to draw only enough to avoid tripping anything. Is this the case, can you control power draw, or is it automatically performed?
For the record, we live in a detached 1960s house, both of us are homeworking, with LED lights, a couple of powerful work high-end workstations, electric oven, kettle, blender, fridge, separate chest freezer, condensing dryer, washing machine, dishwasher, mesh wifi (Unifi, hardwired), smart home tech (heating, garden LED strip lighting, Sonos etc).
Is the electrician correct in assuming this would prevent the car from charging if other things were intermittently in use or would this trip the power? What is a robust solution to this? Or would a TWC/alternative charger get around this issue by carefully supplying under the max power draw?
Thanks in advance!