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Thanks for the replies. 100A fuse upgrade hopefully shouldn't be an issue as the holder is plastic and the meter and consumer unit are rated at 100A. We would be using (probably) one of the Octopus night time tariffs for charging, so the total load on the system in the early hours should be well...

We are trying to find someone to fit an EV charger. The most epensive part of this would be laying 20m+ of buried cable under block drive/concrete path/etc. I am retired and have the tools and experience to do this groundwork but obviously want an electrician to do all the connecting up and...

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Thanks for the reply. I have tried to purchase an Australian device as this would be by far the easiest solution and wouldn't even need hard wiring in my application, but nobody is willing to export to the UK :(

Thanks for the reply. Always willing to learn. One thing that will reinforce my woeful level of ignorance is that I've no idea how the input from a CT could differentiate between 6A AC being imported and 6A AC being exported.....

6.3kW PV array. 12.4kWh battery bank. Combi boiler, so no hot water tank. Surplus energy variable voltage diverters to immersion heaters make sense, but not if you don't have an immersion heater! What we do have is a PHEV with ~2.3kW "granny charger" (7kW charger not needed as battery not huge...