Fast charger recommendations

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Home charger isn't exactly 'fast', a 7kW will take approx 10 hrs for a full charge. DC chargers will take less than an hour, but you can't install it at home.

Thanks - shows how clueless I was about this. Single phase for me!!

Ok thanks. 10 hrs is slow but better than the 24hrs or so the one the car came with takes. Atleast I can charge overnight. Do you have any you recommend?

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No affiliation, but I was looking at this for at least a minor upgrade from the granny charger. Conditions were I could still use the regular 10A outlet (ie no additional electrical work required - obviously limits choice, and precludes a proper 'fast' charging option). Seems can get 2.4kw as opposed to the 1.4 I see from the supplied Granny. So, not a massive difference but good enough when I'm using solar during the day, or to chuck in the car when travelling: https://amzn.asia/d/hGMGX1a

That is a 10 amp charger on a normal household plug, 25% better than the 8 amp charger BYD supply. If you have a 15 amp power outlet (commonly known as caravan or welder socket) then sweet. Installation of a 15a socket can be $150 - $200. At that point, might as well buy and install the 32 amp 7kW charger for around $1000 or so all up.

Is that direct from the battery? If so, cool option.

Thank you. Yeah, as I say, just a modest step up without any electrical work for now, but at some point an upgrade probably in order! :-)

All good; I have been on a similar journey as we have 3 hours of free electricity per day. I've been trying to squeeze more amps through but really, I should bite the bullet and have the 7kW home charger installed.

What is solar+ sigen battery .

That’s what I did, absolutely love my 25kw charge capability, and because it’s DC-DC, the losses are minimal

As others have said, DC charging is definitely capable at home, and with battery technology improving it’ll become more and more common

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Sorry for troubling you with the explanation, thanks fam.

25kw of discharge rate must absolutely fuck your battery tho, unless you have a massive stack edit: just checked the specsheet, up to 80 amps for 25kw charging rate, RIP battery cells...

You’re thinking of it as if the charge only comes from the battery, majority of that 25kw is 10kw from solar, and i usually set the charge speed at 10

https://preview.redd.it/nvv50wh2n88g1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf111da456134ec7074f75e4fc8328888aaad5ad Yesterday was my new record for power creation in one day, with only 13.5kw of panels

yeah in that case, with full speed solar production, it would drop the battery discharging current to \~50 Amps, still quite high but nowhere as terrible in any case, great to have when you need to charge the car fast, for day to day I'd charge at half that speed for both home and car battery's sake, but that's just me :)