coming up in this series we decide to dig up the car park
builder discovers a water pipe and tries to correct his mistake
we check out the new lightweight EV block
after pulling the cables in the rain
and try out what looks like a plumber's tool to strip cable
we hide a joint filled with ectoplasm in a hole in the ground
Ross battles with the rain to finish the job on time
and Gary gets far too excited as a man in a bobble hat turns up with a new instrument
welcome to this new series of videos where we're going to turn the car parking area behind us into
a workplace EV charging point we're installing a commercial electric vehicle charging point behind
us but i've been told many times on the channel Gordon that it only ever Sunshine's in Skipton
well you can see the sun in the distance behind us yes we are in the middle of the second
named winter storm i think it's storm Barra we're on at the moment so we've only got a
day to get this done in we want to be finished before another severe weather event comes along
the star of the show for this series is this CTEK 2 by 22 kilowatt AC EV charge point but the charge
point is just the start or the end of the journey depending on how charged your battery is in your
electric vehicle there's lots of other things to think about that we're going to go through
in this series all those practical considerations that will help you achieve a successful and safe
electrical installation EV charger is just a small part of the overall installation it's not
going to float in thin air so we're going to need to support it we've got this post here provided
by EV Tower as well as those reversing EV cars we need to protect against those and we've got
this barrier here that also we're going to see being installed here at the front of our car
park area we've installed a second EV block you might be wondering why we've done that it's for
future proofing but also another great feature is when we remove the plate here there's four access
points so we can use it as a drawing in point from our mains end to send it round to the back
we've installed our post on our EV charging point the next thing you might be wondering
is what cable are we going to be using we're going to be using the cable from Doncaster 16 millimetre
5 core EV ultra cable new to the market the next question you might be thinking is cost
how many times have you turned up a commercial EV installation and find the premier parking
spots near the front of the building are the ones for the EV chargers the reason behind that is the
cost of the cable so keeping that length short is vitally important the next thing how are we going
to install the 16 millimetre square cable into our CTEK EV charger that's a challenge you're going to
have to stay on to see how we solve it one of the major challenges of workplace EV charging is the
power supply that comes into the building so we may be being generous and putting two 22 kilowatt
power supplies out there but how much power is actually available when you think about what's
used with inside the building itself and does that change over the course of a day but also
is there any tariffs that penalize energy use at certain times a day so you may want to avoid
charging your cars on those peak demand cycles the power supply behind us we have three phase supply
at 100 amps per phase and you'll also notice there's a TN-C-S earthing system which could
cause us some additional challenges we may need to consider one of those considerations is for a PEN
for in the supply network we've seen many times on the channel how we're going to overcome that
in a single phase EV installation however with the three-phase one we're installing the CTEK
EV chargers don't have that PEN fault protection built within it so we're going to need to come
up with a different solution we're going to be using this Matt:e three-phase EV connection unit
and in this series we'll take a closer look to see how that works as well as the mains
connection to the charge we also need to think about the data connection and data is important
for a number of things you want to know how much power is being used by the chargers and you may
also want to know who's using it so you can use it for billing the CTEK charger couples with the open
charge point protocol so we're going to explore that what we've done to our data network to make
sure we've got a reliable connection and how that back office system can help to obviously manage
your charge points and the cost of charging and are we thinking tickets please but i'm not a bus
conductor as it's a new series we'll be checking out some new great kit we'll be checking out the
MFT pro from tis along with its EV adapter as well as a heat gun by Milwaukee and this SACS cable
stripping tool that has lots of different uses and as if by magic we have a fully installed EV charge
point working behind us and a car charging now it did take a little bit longer than we perhaps
suggested during the day because the weather has been horrendous and that is typical as soon as we
ever try anything outside we always seem to do it at the wrong time of the year but we have learned
an incredible amount during this process haven't we Gary we certainly have and those videos are
going to be left in a playlist that you can now go into and follow the full journey through and all
the points that we had however we're interested in your feedback and your comments are you currently
fitting three phase EV charges and you want to add something to the community leave that below
is it the first time like it was for us and maybe you're learning something on this journey again
would be really interesting those comments and also obviously chip in if there's something we've
possibly missed or you think there's a great bit of kit we should be checking out on the channel
related to EV charging or perhaps a tool that could have made our life a little bit easier