Not seen that one before.

What I struggled to understand with a lot of these companies though, is why they think that white is a good colour for a large object attached to the front of your house?!

Probably the reason that I will end up with an Andersen!

 

I know, not sure why so much design thought needs to go into these when it's effectively just an outdoor plug socket, we don't tend to advertise our outside plug sockets to all and sundry, they are usually just a discreet grey box!

 

They do all look terrible. I’ve got a ProjectEV and although the front of it is black, it’s flipping ugly and always lit up too.

 

Do you mind sharing the price? Roughly?

 

Sure - been quoted £550 for my basic install with it running directly from my meter cupboard.

We’d originally booked to have an EO Mini, but there isn’t enough space in the cupboard to hide the extra bit of kit required for that so we’d need an extra box on the wall for it, so that would have basically negated the benefit of it being small, plus made it more expensive.

 

Thanks @Leemo!

One more question, does it need earthing rod?

 

Nope! Not needed

 

That looks really neat with cable management and made in UK (yea!)

I have contacted chargepoint EV in Nottingham to get a quote as we are going to need a charge point installed in the next couple of months.

I noticed on their website that wifi and bluetooth are going to be enabled in March 2021. Is this a totally new product that has not been installed yet around the country I wonder?

I really like the idea of the adjustable brightness for the logo on the front - very cool for the courtyard area of our house.

 

Hi all

Just an update on this in case anyone is interested or other people come looking for info on this charger... as there’s hardly anything out there about it at the moment.

Install was done this morning - by Simon at Green Leaf EV in Birmingham, would defo recommend - and I’m really chuffed with how clean and simple it looks. He managed to get all the cabling into the wall cavity and hide everything else in the meter box. Couldn’t be neater!

Works great with my ID3 from my limited testing this morning (even with the ‘preferred hours’ options on the car software that some people have had issues with on other charger combinations).

The app for the charger is due out later this month, so at the moment there’s a simple little config site where you can see your usage and set the hours you’d like to charge - and yes, change the brightness of the lights!

But yes - really pleased so far.

 

Hi all

Just an update on this in case anyone is interested or other people come looking for info on this charger... as there’s hardly anything out there about it at the moment.

Install was done this morning - by Simon at Green Leaf EV in Birmingham, would defo recommend - and I’m really chuffed with how clean and simple it looks. He managed to get all the cabling into the wall cavity and hide everything else in the meter box. Couldn’t be neater!

Works great with my ID3 from my limited testing this morning (even with the ‘preferred hours’ options on the car software that some people have had issues with on other charger combinations).

The app for the charger is due out later this month, so at the moment there’s a simple little config site where you can see your usage and set the hours you’d like to charge - and yes, change the brightness of the lights!

But yes - really pleased so far.

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That looks really cool without the cables running to it!

I'm not sure about the light though, so brightness adjustments is needed. What is the lowest setting? Is there a full OFF or there is always some light? What does it look in the night for example?

 

There is a full ‘off‘ setting, so if you don’t like the lights you can just turn it all off. When it gets dark I’m going to have a play with brightness settings, I should imagine I’ll just leave it off or on very low - there’s different colours for its different states, so it can be helpful!

 

Thanks for the update. I was contacted by chargepoint EV who said that supply was limited at the moment but we have a couple of months to get a charger sorted. I did see that they are nowing talking about he Hypervolt Home 2.0 but I don't know if that is the name of the present unit or if there have been any changes.

Keep us updated about the charger!

 

The 2.0 is the current unit

After looking at it in the dark last night I decided just to turn the lights off. It is quite dim on the lowest setting but I decided I didn’t really need a glowing blue beacon on the side of the house!

 

I like the idea of the glowing light as it would look good in the courtyard of our house.

 

Hi everyone, full disclosure I am the owner and founder of Hypervolt.

@Leemo we are very pleased you are enjoying the unit. @Gailjon new stock is in now, we can book an install for you next week if you haven't already done so.

@Todor the lowest brightness setting is 0%, but there are 4 levels, you can set that using the dashboard, or the upcoming mobile app.

The colors are useful because they tell you about the state of the charger, we wanted to have a color-only interaction so you know exactly what's going on without pulling your phone out or looking at the car. In that way it's very useful and simple, however, you can turn it down to suit your needs.

@Ascot17 there is a matt grey/black variant coming out very soon! Many people really love the look of our units, but we can definitely understand why not everyone would be pleased with the white color. Hold on tight and new color schemes will be available very soon!

Any other questions you may have, I am at your disposal!

 

Hold on tight and new color schemes will be available very soon!

Do you have a rough date that you expect new colour schemes to be available? I'm in the process of looking into EV chargers and I'd be very interested in the matt grey/black variant.

 

@Leemo Any updates?

I'm probably buying a charger in the next couple of days...and the Hypervolt is on the list.

 

Nothing major to report really! It’s just there doing what it’s told

The app isn’t out yet, so if you want to change settings you do it on their site, but it’s a nice enough interface.

Would definitely recommend. It’s a nice looking charger.

 

@Todor @Leemo App is already in beta, we're expecting it to be in App Store before the end of this month. We are using it at the factory all the time now. @Leemo Web dashboard v3 will also be out very soon, a completely revamped experience, so you can enjoy a webapp that looks just as good as your charger!

That being said, we are able to release the beta to users in private access mode should any be interested. Everything that's critical is already heavily tested, yet there may be the occasional small quick that is still getting polished.

@Todor I am the founder of Hypervolt, and I will say out of 1000s of customers, 99.9% of our customers never need to reach out for anything, the charger will do what it needs to do. We have 5-star reviews throughout, and even though not many as we are a newer company, we work very very hard to keep that true.

You have mainland support, and you can even talk directly to me as the CEO personally, here or otherwise should you ever have questions or in the highly unlikely event that you experience any problems at all. Unlike the competition, we will be around 2AM on Sunday morning to take care of things, and we'd probably be busy working on the next feature even if the phone wouldn't ring, and that's the major thing Hypervolt can offer you that perhaps few others can, we take it all very seriously, both the engineering and support.

We hope this helps with your decision, and should you decide to go for us, we're looking forward to your Instagram post of your beautiful new Hypervolt Charger!

Regards,
Flavian

 

That being said, we are able to release the beta to users in private access mode should any be interested. Everything that's critical is already heavily tested, yet there may be the occasional small quick that is still getting polished.

Hi Flavian

Would be great to get in on the beta if at all possible? Happy to provide feedback etc!

Thanks

 

Well done all involved. Another great charger to the marketplace.

 

Thanks! We're super proud of it and to have it received so well we're very pleased.

Cesare
Heads of Sales @ Hypervolt

 

Hi Flavian, I will add your charger to my shortlist for later in the year. It sounds just what i will require. Do you have a Technical spec. i:e casing dimension's ect

 

Good Afternoon,
that's what we like to hear!
You'll find everything you need from a technical standpoint here: Hypervolt Home 2.0 Tech
when you're ready to take things to the next step please feel free to get in touch.

Any questions let me know,

All the best,
Cesare

 

Flavian, Thank you for the information

 

Flavian , I noticed Leemo said his installation was installed directly from the main meter box, and not from the consumer fuse cabinet. Is that a typical installation, If so it would make my installation a lot neater

 

Hi!
It's something to be discussed with the installer, have you got one lined up to do the work already? It's worth mentioning it to them

 

TBH, had huge hopes with this charger, that is why I went with it. But I'm now fairly disappointed both with the unit and the company.

I've had the charger installed for close to 3 weeks now. Since installation, it has had only issues. Started by "load protection", I'm not sure if this is the correct term. But the charger will start charging at 7kW and within 15min will be down to 2kW. At least the company support fixed this in an OTA. But that highlighted another problem that I hadn't noticed yet. The charger can't maintain internet connection. Need to restart it if I want to connect. I actually moved my router just on the inside of the charger wall. Still, the charger will not maintain connection. Support gave up after a couple of tries to fix it but now are ignoring my emails. So, at the moment I have a dumb charger, without any connectivity. At least it charges at 7kW. But I think that is breaking the rules of the grant?

I know that they are here, @Cesare M and @Flavian Alexandru , so consider this another attempt from me to get this resolved.

 

Good Morning Todor,

I'm very sorry to hear that you're still having issues and we weren't able to fix it first time around, for that I can only apologise.
We keep our customers at the heart of everything we do so I promise we would never intentionally ignore your emails, I'll look into this personally to find out what's going on in that regard.
With regards to the connectivity issues, I know our support and dev team have released a number of patches and fixes to the mobile app, in one instance almost a total re-write which was pushed through this week. I'll make sure you get a phone call today from my colleagues to go through the issues and make sure your Hypervolt is charging as intended ASAP.
Thank you for bearing with us, I can't stress enough how important the continued satisfaction of customers like yourself is to us and we'll work hard to resolve this for you.

All the best,
Cesare

 

Hi all, I'm currently open minded on the best charger for my IONIQ. Is there a spec sheet for the Hypervolt unit?
One thing that interests me is Integration with my existing solar array.
I've been quoted for a unit that has options for charge from solar only, normal when solar isn't available, or fast charge regardless of supply.
How does the Hypervolt work in this regard?
Thanks.

 

Hi all, I'm currently open minded on the best charger for my IONIQ. Is there a spec sheet for the Hypervolt unit?
One thing that interests me is Integration with my existing solar array.
I've been quoted for a unit that has options for charge from solar only, normal when solar isn't available, or fast charge regardless of supply.
How does the Hypervolt work in this regard?
Thanks.

Hi Dunney,

There sure is, here's the spec sheet: Home 2.0 Tech Sheet - it doesn't include the latest features (solar & Load balancing) but the rest is all up to date.
Our solar options will work almost like that, your solar array will need to generate at least 1.4kw in order for it to register and charge the car on it's own (solar only option), second option will be trickle solar which is available if your solar array is producing less than 1.4kw, it'll then 'top up' from the grid so you're not wasting any solar power generated.
Final option will be fast solar charging, whatever your solar produces up to 7kw, topped up by the grid to charge at max.

I hope this is all clear, you're welcome to dm if you need further information.

Best,
Cesare

 

Just for everyone's sake, it was not CG NAT, it is a router invalidly assigning IPV6 addresses that makes our software unhappy. We are working very hard to fix it, and have sent @Todor a free extender, so he can get online while we digest through all of this, and fix the underlying issue causing the connection drop. It's not easy to please all routers and models and quite frankly various implementation bugs, but we'll get there very fast.

This is fortunately a very isolated event, we've only seen a TPLink router model and @Todor's router doing nasty things to our underlying software stack. There may be more out there, we're buying them as fast as field reports come in and testing with them directly to make sure things go well.

 

Hi Flavian,
Can I commend you on your relentless customer service and obvious pride and passion you have in your Company & product.
I had a Hypervolt 2.0 unit fitted three days ago. Really pleased with the aesthetics and the ability to charge my car so quickly. As my wife collects her EV on Wednesday, it will be a shared unit between the x2 cars. So, first question…. will there be any possibility of the app allowing dual analytics for both cars individually? Secondly, will there be an option of coloured facias to replace the white one in the future? Finally, I’m still unable to connect to enable smart features, but have been in contact with Alex Istrate and have full confidence the issue can be resolved.

 

Hi everyone watch o YouTube video all about this charger last night for Artistan Electric loads of info very good video think the chaps name is Jordan does some really interesting videos on that channel he does
It looks very much like the zappi May be a bit cheaper but don’t think it does the solar side like zappi does but if you have no solar might be for you
Les
Videos called is this the future of electric charging

 

Hi everyone watch o YouTube video all about this charger last night for Artistan Electric loads of info very good video think the chaps name is Jordan does some really interesting videos on that channel he does
It looks very much like the zappi May be a bit cheaper but don’t think it does the solar side like zappi does but if you have no solar might be for you
Les
Videos called is this the future of electric charging

FYI - Jordan is a member of SpeakEV.

 

Hi All, I'm new to EV's and, the Hypervolt looks like a good solution to me. Can anyone recommend an installer of them so I can get a quote? I'm in the Newbury/Reading area, southern UK if that helps.

Kind regards,
Marcus

 

Here's another Artisan Electrics video, this time with a cameo from @Flavian Alexandru at around 8:30:-

 

Jeremy, hoping to clarify the wiring matter; the Hypervolt Home has DC leakage sensing and protection embedded into the unit itself. Thereby, the Hypervolt can be installed without the need of a Type B RCD upstream, and instead, a Type A RCD with a residual operating current not exceeding 30mA can be used.

The included Type-A RCD functionality will comply with the latest applicable regulations. I will facilitate a safe installation without an external RCD device.

 

Yeah a broken IPv6 implementation can cause these problems, presume the team have implemented happy eyeballs, or some such.

 

Can I ask further on the Type A RCD?

What is needed in the existing CU for connection, assuming enough room?

• A 40A RCBO independent of existing RCDs; or
• A 40A MCCB via a new 30mA Type A RCD; or
• A 40A MCCB sharing an existing Type A RCD; or
• A 40A MCCB without an RCD, provided armoured cable is used?

If these are right, how does the future option of a Type A RCD built into the charger affect these options?

My guess is the first 3 options are OK with the existing unit, while option 4 becomes viable with the additional RCD builtin.