[yorkshire ghost]

Hi All,
i currently use the "granny" charger at home but am looking for a proper socket.

However, my problem is at work....
we have a charging pillar and it has 2 sockets, each rated at 16A (the overall rating in the office fusebox is 32A hence 2x16A sockets)
When i connected the cable (that came with the car) the 16A breaker on the post tripped out. After many attempts i noted though the app that the car was trying to draw 32A, hence overloading the socket.
My colleague (who has a tesla) discussed this with me and he said that he changed the charge rate from 32A down to 16A through the tesla app (he showed me).

So my question is - is there any way to slow down the draw of current from the car (or app?) to 16A when required?

(obviously i want 32A at other points)

Thanks

 

[veeeight]

Don't know if you can program it in the app, alternatively you need the 16A cable version:

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Ring EV Charge Cable Type2 Type2 16A 5m | Halfords UK

Shop the latest 2030 will see the end of internal combustion engine manufactured vehicles in the UK. Electric vehicles are set to replace pertol and diesel vehicles. Ring's RCC21605 is a Type 2 to Type 2 charging cable that is compatible for single phase power supply, producing 16Amps of charge...

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Some early A250e owners were supplied with the 3.7kW cable in their cars, they will have upgraded to the 32A version, so you may be able to buy their old cable off them.

See:

The A250e (Hybrid) General Topic Part 1

Charging my car for the first time using the 30A wall box - I am getting 6.8 kWh according to the Mercedes app, and around the same figure from my smart meter. Estimated time for a 0-100% charge = 1 hour 40 minutes (11.3 kW used) Cost on Octopus Go (peak time) = 14.19p per kWh - £1.60 Off peak...

www.aclassclub.co.uk

The A250e (Hybrid) General Topic Part 1

Charging my car for the first time using the 30A wall box - I am getting 6.8 kWh according to the Mercedes app, and around the same figure from my smart meter. Estimated time for a 0-100% charge = 1 hour 40 minutes (11.3 kW used) Cost on Octopus Go (peak time) = 14.19p per kWh - £1.60 Off peak...

www.aclassclub.co.uk

The A250e (Hybrid) General Topic Part 2

I received one of the first cars (built first week of March 2020, production started at the end of Feb) and it came with a 3phase cable (3x16a) - this meant at most 7kw posts (ie single phase) in the UK I was only getting 3.6kw charge rate. Lots of searching later along with a discussion with MB...

www.aclassclub.co.uk

 

[yorkshire ghost]

Thank you very much for your response.
I am still a little confused though. Does a 16A cable have some sort of self-limiter built in as I am led to believe that it is the car that is trying to pull 32A and so would try that with whatever cable is connected.
If the 16A cable does not have a self limiter built in then I will get the same result.
thanks

 

[veeeight]

Apparently there is an internal link in the connector that determines if it draws 16A or 32A from a single phase supply.