MyG! "I don't know much about EV charging" then continues to completely reverse engineer the whole charging point and explain what everything does! Top lad!

Great explanation into how it all works, and no you don’t waffle too much, everything you say is clear and concise 👍

The camera work and editing 💯

Waffling is great, I do it all the time when on the tools. Loving your videos and seeing stuff come apart and hopefully going back together. A spark is always learning new stuff. Keep it up dude.

Great video Mike. Loved the VLOG style with just you, the job and a camera. These were the kind of videos you used to make and they are what made me subscriber to your channel in the first place. No I don't think you waffle too much, you are just talkin out load about your though process. Keep up the great work.

another great vid, thankt a lot Mike for this fantastic content and keep up the great work!

Waffle away, it’s really interesting hearing your viewpoint on the work you’re doing. Also liking the POV content.

And yes Mike, please don't change anything with your content, it's awesome, keep it up,cheers from Australia mate.⚡🔌🎇

Thanks again Mike! Learnt a lot again

Keep waffling! It's excellent, as this vid is gold dust with the shit you've tested/found. Didn't know shit about rivian EVs giving problems, but we do now. Please keep the blue 18th book in the van! ( Just in case) keep doing it bud. 💥💥 Boom

Thanks Mikey! Waffle away! Lol. A nice back to basics video. Cheers

Great video Mike 👌🏻

EV chargers need to be renamed to Charge-Points, it’s just a socket like your domestic socket outlets. The actual charger is on the car, and that’s important as sometimes you can option a higher rated charger when ordering the car (and get a higher rate at home), and I don’t think the public know the difference.

I enjoyed that. Thank you.

Man keep doing what you do! This is quality content, feel free to rant away.

I have had a contactor fail on a Rolec EVCP a year after I replaced a Mode 3 controller and it actually burned out the relay contact in the new controller. I have started fitting a relay in between the Mode 3 and the contactor to give it some protection, as we do the same thing with our PLC's in panel builds

Interesting that it looked like control module appears to auto reset for each of the faults and never locks out like the standard RCD did. Would be interesting to see a ramp test on the control module and then the RCD, may shed some light on the operation. Just brought myself some packout, wish I had none you were going to stock, I would have held out and purchased from you.

Great video Mike. How did you find using the KEWEVSE adapter?

Brilliant video. Where did your m8 find out about the DC side and it's times in the bs7671.

I’m 4 seconds in seems like a great video so far

Interesting inside one of those. I wonder how the end user tests that internal RCD?

Love to videos Mike

You can test the locking mechanism by setting the tester to state B. That tells the charging station that the car is connected and that it should lock the cable. And only unlock when you are back to state A. Aka you have unplugged on the car side. State D is not really in use with modern li-ion EVs. The fan control is meant for indoor parking and charging lead acid batteries. So the car can tell the charging station to turn on extra ventilation to vent out possible dangerous hydrogen gas from the area. It is not meant for a small fan inside the pedestal.

@sjokomelk

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And you did test with B later in the video. 🙈🤣

Strange, there device doesn’t comply so they add a rcd to comply but you you test there one as the other rcd is only because it’s to a bsen standard, they didn’t think that through I think they will change that down the line. Love your work, keep it up mate. 🙂

@craigbuist4636

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At present none of the manufacturers RCD’s comply with the regs in BS7671 so you generally always need an upfront RCD. It’s the part of the regs lots of people seem to miss. Rolec put them in the charger but many others have to have them in the DB. See a lot of people putting the wrong rcd in due to rdc-dd devices being missed. Think the regs generally need to do more for EV in the amendments to come.

I train the EV qualification and I can promise, you will learn nothing more than you already know pal.

Ever thought if you’d get into automation, controls and BMS systems or have you done it in the past?

Can't quite work out how the grey modules with the hole and cables going through, work. Obviously some kind of current transformer. Yet both live and neutral pass through which normally cancel each other out.

@three-phase562

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Yes, the device is detecting the residual or probably better described as the differential current between live and neutral. With no fault, all the current through the live wire will go back through the neutral and there will be no differential current. With an earth fault on the outlet, not all the current flowing through the live wire will travel back through the neutral, some will go to earth. The live and neutral will no longer be balanced and the module detects this.

@edc1569

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If the current isn't coming back, it's going somewhere else, which is bad, much easier to detect a small leakage that way.

Wheres he gone 😮

👍👍👍👍👍

HI mike, I've recently purchased the veto pro pac MC from loadout, bit torn between whether it is big enough for Commercial/Industrial would love to hear your thoughts and/or a loadout video about it!

@conorcarey4204

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the backpack that is sorry

Ist a little strange That the earth cord is't cornected to the cabinet of the station or to the autleths😮😮

Seems to me that the device has poor design as presumably there shouldn't be any voltage present if the locking pin hasn't been able to decend into the aperture, preventing the plug from being removed under load.

@sjokomelk

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Part of the Mode3 design is that the CP pin on the plug is much shorter than the power pins. So if you unplug with the contactor closed, the CP signal will drop first, making the contactor open before you are able to break contact on the power pins making a possible arch.

What wire strippers are you using?

Surly you can’t test and certify an ev charger if you haven’t passed the relevant qualifications?

Waffle away

Music too loud; we want to hear you! Interesting stuff.

Mate car chargers aren’t cool

There dumb chargers the car is the charger.

I think water ingress would be an ever present problem to deal with.🤔⚡🔌🎇