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Apartments are tough problems to solve. Their electrical service doesn't supply enough electricity to handle the number of chargers that are going to be desire
by 762236 9y ago
Apartments are tough problems to solve. Their electrical service doesn't supply enough electricity to handle the number of chargers that are going to be desired. So they have to consider something like ChargePoint, which will intelligently manage the load, but then ChargePoint asks each resident something like $50/month just to have an account (their website says "You pay a low monthly service fee plus the cost of electricity.", but the service fee I saw quoted was ~$50/month).
- CaliforniaKarl 9y agoI decided to head downstairs and check things out. It is a ChargePoint charger, providing 240 V service for up to two cars. It's being fed through two separate (parallel) 240 V 60 A-rated fused disconnects (Eaton Safety Switches). What's annoying is that, although all of the conduits in the garage are run on the ceiling, the conduit from the disconnects to the charger were clearly installed after the garage was completed: There are clear signs of a trench being cut, the flexible conduit being laid, and then the void being filled in. The charging station is on the bottom level of the garage, so they couldn't have come up from a lower level. There's also clearly no room for expansion: The cage around the disconnects leaves no additional room, and the neighboring spaces are resident spaces. So to put in more chargers, they'd have to displace some resident spots, expand the cage, probably run new overhead conduit, and do more concrete cutting. Blargh. One good thing, though: Both charging stations were open just now! That makes me wonder if it's possible to find out past usage times, to get an idea of how I would fit in…