Which home charging point?

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fatjon said:

m3jappa said:

I wonder if i can tap into some wisdom.

Need to get a charger but all the online prompt type websites seem to suggest it needs to connect to the meter.

I am sure its the same for a lot of people but the meter is around 35m away from the garage, there is a 16mm cable though from the board in the house to a small board in the garage.

I assume thats ok to fit a charger off. How do i fill in an online form to reflect that?

The last thing i want is cables tacked to walls, ive been working hard here to remove or hide as much of the old cabling as possible

Is the ohme pro still a good option?

at 35m a 16mm cable is ample and yes, you can then hang the charger off the sub board. On the other questions I can’t help much but a local sparky can likely install the charger exactly to your needs. The guy who did mine charged £250 for a very similar install off a second board in the garage 20m away.

When I was looking at the cable going to my garage my research (Googling) suggested an armoured cable that measured 15mm diameter was probably 2.5mm wire, 30A but you would need to underrate it for a longer run, the CB in my fusebox is 16A, which aligned with this. So it didn't look feasible in my case.

The big installers will likely want to run their own cable from your meter anyway.

For me, the cable will eventually be hidden by bushes and plants, and I'll recess it behind one of the steps going up to my front door.