XC60 T8 after market charging cable

[Goodshot]

Originally Posted by MaDProFF

Thanks, that had crossed my mind, though I do have 40 Amp feed to garage I think, need to check a few years since I ran Armoured cable to it.

Good thing is I do not have to do anything until I have car as 13A is fine, even have a Round Blue socket, cannot remember what rating that is

If you are going to be charging up over night and charge time is not a real issue then that makes sense. Don't know much about amps/volts etc but thought I read somewhere that T8's can only handle a max 3 amps chargin, so no point over speccing.

[tabber]

Actually it will only take 3kW*, which is a lot more than 3 amps :-) It is just a little over 13 amps on a standard domestic supply. (*According to podpoint website)

The one thing I remember from physics is P=IV, or Power (watts) is Current (amps) multiplied by Voltage. So on a 220v circuit, at 10 amps you are getting a theoretical 2.2 kW. The battery is about 9kWh, so it will take just over 4 hours to fully charge, although some is lost as heat in the charge process. Domestic electricity is about 14p a kW by the way.

The reason I use 10 amps as the example, is because that is the rating of the 3 pin charger that comes with the car. It has a nice up and down arrow so you can reduce the charge current down if you are worried, or I guess just want to charge slower.

[PaulBendall]

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