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I’m awaiting action from the DNO. They have backed off from enforcing my line for two reasons. Firstly it would likely increase voltage through lower impedance, and existing impedance is within spec. The pole transformer is manual tap, so they would need to do some sort of switch off to reduce...

That's what I would have thought.

In the conversations I've been having, they seem worried about dropping off the bottom, 216v, on longer runs, so they same they are trying to keep it as near to 253v as possible. This gives absolutely no headroom for getting it wrong. Not aiming for 230v at all.

Just had more correspondence. They are not keen to tap down at the pole transformer, since it seems they must switch off the whole area, which unsurprisingly they aren't keen to do. If I'd have known getting an EV charger working reliably would take this much effort, I wouldn't have bothered.

@binky thanks for the response.I agree I don't think they will got for the VO. The implication is it will cost me for the new tails from new meter box to consumer unit, potentially a complex route. I will of course state this should be picked up by DNO. The route they are proposing (but still...

I should add, new meter and tails is because the existing meter is no longer on an external wall (extension built over the entry point 20 years ago). So DNO wants a new meter box.

The line from the pole is quite long at 49m, and it seems the DNO would prefer it was nearer to 20m. They can't get it to 20m, because the house is simply too far from the pole. So they want to put in a heavier weight cable, presumably to provide a more reliable connection and I believe to...

We have a problem with voltage being too high for our EV Charger, it goes to about 255v regularly and we know the charger trips at 253. We have spoken to DNO at length and they want to put a new line into the house, which while mostly at their cost will cause enormous disturbance and some cost...