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TallPaul
Just to head of the usual comments, I am not an electrician and I will be getting one in to get this work done - disclaimer aside there is a lot of knowledge here and I wanted to get some feedback so when I get some quotes I can be clear what I want.
Detached garage is currently fed on its own 16A breaker from main board on 2.5mm T&E inside and SWA outside, fine for current use (although air compressor sometimes trips and I loose the lights which is annoying) but in future I want to get a 6.6kW/~32A charger for electric car added, and it would be ideal if I could locate the solar inverter (very!) shortly being installed in the garage (5Kw) to save space and give flexibility in future for adding battery storage both of which require more capacity than I have now.
I am thinking best option would be to split tails in the meter cupboard, new SWA via some protection at meter end to the garage and a new board to give more capacity now and spare for the future. Lights can then be separated from sockets as a plus, with capacity for EV charger and inverter.
Simple as that? Anything else I should consider?
Based on my non-qualified understanding, I should be seeing 6mm or 10mm SWA cable I believe on quotes? Inverter loading is in opposite direction to the EV charger so max load remains 6.6Kw in the dark for EV charger, no charging on high summer is still 5Kw into grid other way worst case.
Detached garage is currently fed on its own 16A breaker from main board on 2.5mm T&E inside and SWA outside, fine for current use (although air compressor sometimes trips and I loose the lights which is annoying) but in future I want to get a 6.6kW/~32A charger for electric car added, and it would be ideal if I could locate the solar inverter (very!) shortly being installed in the garage (5Kw) to save space and give flexibility in future for adding battery storage both of which require more capacity than I have now.
I am thinking best option would be to split tails in the meter cupboard, new SWA via some protection at meter end to the garage and a new board to give more capacity now and spare for the future. Lights can then be separated from sockets as a plus, with capacity for EV charger and inverter.
Simple as that? Anything else I should consider?
Based on my non-qualified understanding, I should be seeing 6mm or 10mm SWA cable I believe on quotes? Inverter loading is in opposite direction to the EV charger so max load remains 6.6Kw in the dark for EV charger, no charging on high summer is still 5Kw into grid other way worst case.