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Is it possible to install some sort of open pen fault protection in an outdoor 13amp socket for EV charging? If not then I,ll have to completely scrap the idea and just get unlooped and have a proper charger installed. Not worth scrimping of H&S for the sake of the garden dug up for a short while.

Hi, I've heard a little bit about these. Will the circuit not already be protected by the inbuilt CPC wire in the cable and the RCD at the consumer unit and the rcbo device built into the outdoor socket?

That's quite a fair comment. I take it the EV charging 3 pin sockets have reinforced contacts at the back where they get wired in. As opposed to bog standard sockets you find round the house

Yes I would only ever get a EV marked socket nothing else

Iv heard loads of horror stories about normal 3 pin sockets warping cracking etc that's why I'd be more comfortable using the thicker cable. The run from CU to socket position is only about 3 metres.

Our main incoming fuse for both properties is 100amps. This should be adequate for the trickle charging socket? We don't have electric showers or anything so load wouldn't be an issue

We are supplied from our neighbour so it would involve our garden to be dug up unfortunately. The dno (electricity north west) has said they could do it for free but it's just all the upheaval and mess. I'm just trying to find a way round this safely without unlooping. Btw I would never dream of...

this is the socket I'm thinking of having installed, I will be getting it done professionally and not DIY. As you can see it has it's own rcbo integrated into it. With this in mind would I still need an rcbo breaker at the CU that supplies this outlet or would a just a MCB be ok?

Thanks for that link. A bit cheaper than a couple iv seen that have been £60 plus!

Hi, so I would like to have fitted the above for a future EV. I know the charging speed ~10amp is slow but not an issue to me. Anyway the reason I'm posting this is because Im looped onto my neighbour and can't have a 7kw EV charger fitted, the garden would be dug up and it's simply not an...