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- In a previous video,
we explored some of the brilliant features
in the Easee EV charging system.
But today we're gonna go a little bit further,
we're gonna actually install one and commission it.
So, what have you got set up for us, Gary?
- We've got one cable from our distribution board
that feeds out to our three EV charging points,
but just remind me,
how many Easee EV charging points
can I have on one cable supplied,
say from a 32 amp three-phase breaker?
- You could have 101 units.
- Thankfully, you're not asking me
to make off 101 EV charging points.
However, I've already set about doing the end-point,
but I've got two more still to install.
We're gonna look in the next part of the video,
those key features about installing
an Easee EV charging point.
- So, Gary, what have you found in the installation kit?
- So I've got the base plate
and then I've got the bits with our screws
and ceiling plugs in it,
so let's open those out.
So, I've got a couple of sealing plugs there,
and we'll look at those in the installation.
As well as a padlock, which we'll come back to.
And then here,
there's a little bit of different thinking here, Gordon.
So when I look at the screws here
for the actual clamps to hold the cable in place,
it's only a different head on it-
- Well, yeah, so this is a Torx 25 screw,
so quite a common type of screw head,
but not something we're usually used to seeing
in our electrical equipment
and you've got a special bit for that?
- Yes.
In order to get those tight for my cord grips,
I'm obviously gonna have to have access to one of those,
and it continues on when we're looking at the terminations.
The terminations don't have a screw head,
they have a number four Hex.
So, I'm gonna be very careful,
we've got to get it back to the required torque settings,
but we had one of these in our talk,
didn't we Gordon?
- We did and that caught us out
in the initial stages of video
because we thought we could just put this
in our regular Torx screwdriver,
but it doesn't fit.
So we had to buy a specific bit for the ones we have.
So not a lot of people may have the Hex bit
in the Torx screwdriver kit.
- And that's in order to get the terminations back
to the required torque sentence,
and we'll show that when we're looking at the installation.
- I've got two points behind me in which I need to install,
I'm gonna cut to footage now of that
and then perhaps you can come back in
and ask me a few questions in a few months, Gordon.
- Well, Gary, you made that look easy as you torque close up
to the five newton-metres required in the instructions.
But bow did you find the rest of the installation?
- Lonely would be a word.
Yeah, you swoop in at the end,
no doubt, to do the commission and take all the glory.
- I did the full install on my own.
- Well, I've had to learn the intricacy of the system
and we'll come back to that later.
But do you want to talk us through
what you've done with the installation?
- Yeah.
I used a tough sheath cable.
Now, I know on camera, it probably looks like a steel wire,
only it isn't.
It's surface clipped from the distribution board,
and loops in and out of the three EV charging points
that we've put in?
- Okay, so the cable entries themselves,
they don't look like cable glands?
- No they're sealing plugs, okay?
So, there's no glands involved.
Okay, so it's like a grommet almost, okay.
It's just a case of carefully cutting off the top of it
and then pushing it into position in order to seal the top.
- Okay, so this is IP 34 as we mentioned
in that previous video.
- We did.
- So water can get in and escape,
check out that video for more discussion about that,
but you'll also notice the back of the unit slopes away,
so any water will naturally head towards
the back of the unit and away from the charger.
Also you've blanked some of the unused ways
in that unit, Gary?
- Yeah, so I've blanked one in the top that wasn't used
and the bottom entry one here.
However, I can see on the pedestal,
you've actually used the bottom entry.
- Yeah, so this is pedestal,
you'd probably use it if it was in an open area,
a car park or you couldn't mount to a wall.
The cable entry, yeah, it's just comes from beneath.
- If I wanted to loop in and loop out using this system,
where would I make my connections?
- Okay, so Easee have thought of that as well,
there's this door in the bottom of the column here,
where you would do those loop in, loop out connections.
So you've put the cord grips on there, Gary?
- I have, yeah.
So, we're coming in and we're going out,
we've secured the cables with cord grips.
Remember, in the actual sealing plugs at the top
are not securing the cable.
So, it's vitally important you get those
cord grips back in, Gordon.
- So, I see you've ferruled the ends
of the conductors, Gary? - Yeah, I had a choice.
The terminations themselves are designed
to take a dual ferrule.
So, I had a twin ferrule here and off-camera,
I just stripped back two conductors
and I just tried the two to see which one
I was most comfortable with.
And I went with the ferruled ends
and I was really pleased with it.
I've gotten protective earth, neutral, L1, L2 and L3,
as I'm looping in my three-phase,
neutral and protective conductor,
and then on to the next EV charger.
Can I use it on single-phase, Gordon?
- Yes, so this charger is three-phase
or will work off single phase.
In which case,
you do only use the first three terminals there.
I notice in there, Gary, it's labeled up as IT and TN,
but I don't see any earth rods here.
We know that's a big issue when it comes to EV chargers.
How have you managed to deal with that?
- Yeah, I've got one supply cable coming out,
feeding all the EV charging points,
which is really nice 'cause I therefore used only one Matt-e
as our protection for a broken conductor,
and that's back at the mains end.
So, I've had all the fun of installing the wiring system
for these Easee EV charging points.
It's down to you now, Gordon,
to commission it.
- Okay, well, I'll let you finish your wiring first, Garry.
You just plug that unit in,
the balancers are already powered up to go.
And they will, so we'll see the...
Now we've got the light sabers just lit up.
- Very nice.
Yeah, I like that, so...
Okay, so we can see it's powered up.
- Powered up.
- I see you've got your phone in your hand.
- This is a special commissioning device, Gary.
Yes, it's a smartphone.
I've got my instructions here as well.
- Really, is that it?
- That's it.
- Three stages.
- We'll just wait on this to do its own self check.
- Okay.
- We're waiting for a yellow LED.
There it is.
- Okay, that was quick.
- So, first stage,
press and hold this button for five seconds.
Now we're expecting to see a green light saber.
And we have the green light saber there.
- Okay, very good, very impressive.
- So, what does that mean now we're doing?
- So now this unit here is sharing its own wireless network,
so it's created its own wireless network
and we're now gonna join it.
- All right, so you picked it up on your phone,
just going into settings and finding it?
- Just going in the settings now.
- Okay, it seems really easy.
No app?
- No, no need to download an app.
- Okay, I think I've got the short straw here,
doing the install, even though I thoroughly enjoyed that.
You know, it doesn't seem many stages to this
according to the little slip.
- And you sort of have to understand
the technicalities (mumbles).
The technicalities where there's not many of them.
- I'll catch up.
- So now, we open up a browser on the smartphone.
- Okay.
So you're searching the internet, yes?
- Yep and...
Well, not searching the internet,
all I need to do is enter the IP address of the unit here,
which is on here,
which is 192..
- 168.4.1.
- (mumbles).
- Okay.
- Enter that. Oh there we go, straight away.
I mean, that was quick.
Choose the language.
I'd suggest we want English,
but you can choose Norwegian if you wish.
I've got to put in the pin number
from the front of the unit,
which we find here on that sticker here.
- Yeah, so it's 3-6-4-6 that pin number.
- 3-6-4-6, log in.
It's a new installation we have here,
we haven't got any other chargers.
Select, new installation.
There you go,
"Please enter the missing installation there."
So this one already knows we're here.
- Right.
- Wow, it didn't give me a reading of the voltage
on the various lines of the...
Of the power supply to the unit.
So what I have to do first is choose the main fuse
coming into the building.
- Okay. - The power rating of that.
- So that was three-phase, 100 amps.
- Yep, so I'll just dial down that 100 amps
and then I'll also choose the current rating
of the fuse feeding this circuit.
- So this circuit was fused at 32 amps.
Doesn't seem by any stages to this, Gordon.
- And then just choose the circuit number.
- Okay, so that's the distribution board circuit number?
- Yes.
- Okay. - I'll call it number one.
The electrician name,
should this be me or should this be you?
I'll put me in there. - Okay, of course you would.
- So that I'll take all the credit for this.
I'll put that in there and phone number.
"Do you want to connect to the local wifi network?"
Now you could, that's another option.
This has its own inbuilt connection to the 4G network.
- Right. - I'm not gonna do that.
- So if you connected to the local network,
does that mean it'll download all those updates
a little bit maybe faster or (mumbles)?
- Yeah, a little bit faster, it says,
but that's not a requirement.
You don't have to do that.
- Okay. - So now I'm being asked,
will I have to commission more chargers?
- Okay, so we've definitely got two more.
- Got two more, so I'll answer yes to that question.
Okay, so here's the clever bit.
- Now, first you've got to disconnect that unit,
unplug it.
- Okay, so I'm taking the charging berry out.
- Taking the charging berry out and let's shuffle along.
So other charger in the network,
so if you plug that into there.
- Okay, we're back into this one.
- We're waiting for a-
- Slightly different light...
Oh no, we go.
- Like, I don't know, it's doing its self check.
The light saber is back.
- And this is configuring the back plate, isn't it?
- Yes.
Yes, configuring the back plate, so.
- It's gone green now.
Please, don't tell me that's it, done.
- That's it, yep.
So now if you unplug that again.
- So that is now configured, yes?
- That's configured.
- Okay, take that one out.
- And, let's move back to our last charger
in this installation.
- Okay and it's gonna do exactly the same again,
and you're gonna tell me that those are now configured?
I think I might've gotten the short straw
by doing the installation,
even though, like I said,
it was not a difficult one.
This is simplistic itself.
So it's flashing away,
it's gonna drop down and you're gonna tell me
the back plate again is configured,
there you go.
- That's it.
- So I take this one out again, so we do that?
- Well, we're gonna leave this as a blank unit.
- Okay, so taking it back out.
- So take that, yes.
- Does it matter where this one goes?
- Put it back in the first one.
- Oh back in the first one, okay.
So and we're gonna do with this sticker here,
is it viable to leave it here?
- Okay, so it's recommended the sticker goes
in either the instruction manual.
- Yes.
- Or possibly in the fuse board.
I'd suggest the fuse board for us is a more sensible option
'cause we're more likely to lose the instructions.
- Okay, so we keep that pin number, yes?
So, do I now find a different charging berry?
- So bring us another charging berry.
Yes, we're getting technical.
They're actually called charging barriers sometimes.
So I just plugged that and do I do nothing now
because the actual back plate is configured?
- It's configured.
So you'll see this, it'll go into a standby mode,
that should end up lighting up as a white LED.
- And, we're gonna put a blank plate on the last one, yes?
- Yeah.
So again, the clever bit is,
we've already configured that back plate,
should in the future you want to add an additional charger.
All you have to do is remove the blank plate,
plugin the charge berry, job done.
- So that means that this won't have
a charging point on it, it'll have the blanking plate
we've discussed previously?
- Yeah.
- This one will be used as an EV charger
and so will this one?
- Yeah.
- And they will share the 32 amps across,
in this case only two EV charging points,
but we could have put anything
up to 101, 10, 20, 30, et cetera. So all we need to do now,
is choose the color of our covers.
Wow, they look fantastic.
We've used all the ones we had,
so we've got the white one, the red one and the black one.
Remember, there's more colors in the range,
but there's one thing you're also thinking,
"What happened to those padlocks, Gordon,
we saw earlier on in the video?"
- Okay, they're tucked underneath the cover,
locking the charge berry in place.
- Okay, you've put the covers back for us off camera,
how are they secured into place?
- Okay, simply click into place and then they're secured
with a screw that sits underneath the rubber flap
at the bottom of the charger.
- Also, I like what you've done,
you've put this handy little bracket here.
What's the thinking behind that?
That's there if you want to leave your lead permanently
attached, so that you can lock in via the app.
It just keeps it nice and tidy.
- It does.
- I think easy is a really good word to describe
what we've done with this EV charging system.
I thought it was easy to install
and watching you do the commissioning,
I think it was phenomenally easy.
- Yeah, but behind that actually, Gary,
sits enormous power in the back office suite
to help people manage multiple charge points,
and perhaps we'll look at that in another video.
- We're always interested in your comments,
so please make sure you leave them below,
about an EV installation that you've carried out
or maybe you've experienced working
with the Easee EV charging points,
we'd be be interested in your thoughts.
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