Millie Master
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We own an utterly gorgeous BMW 225XE with which we are delighted. It is a 2017 model and had done next to no mileage when we purchased it back in January this year.
Everything about the car is perfect for us, however shortly after we first bought it I noticed that the correctly fused plug and circuit breakered unique power line, hadn't either fused or tripped the throw out switch, yet both the socket and the plug had quite literally melted and the positive post of the plug had partly melted and fused itself to the terminal in the plug!!
So I thought this might be down to the fact that the plug and socket were both of Chinese origin and I bought a specific power point from the UK company Rolec and installed it. Everything went perfectly until a couple of weeks ago when I noticed that the very same thing had happened again, melted socket, melted plug!!
The circuit has a 10 amp throw out breaker switch in the consumer unit, it also has another similarly powered 10 amp breaker in the Rolec hook up point and the 3 pin plug has a 10 amp fuse fitted to it, yet none of these had tripped or blown????
I am now thinking of getting rid of the 3 pin plug and fitting a EHU type socket complete with a 10 amp trip as well as a correct waterproof IP67 EHU type plug as these should have more than enough capability of carrying the loadings of a basic EV hook up cable.
Of course I could get the professionals in, but I can think of far better ways of spending my hard earned!!
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Everything about the car is perfect for us, however shortly after we first bought it I noticed that the correctly fused plug and circuit breakered unique power line, hadn't either fused or tripped the throw out switch, yet both the socket and the plug had quite literally melted and the positive post of the plug had partly melted and fused itself to the terminal in the plug!!
So I thought this might be down to the fact that the plug and socket were both of Chinese origin and I bought a specific power point from the UK company Rolec and installed it. Everything went perfectly until a couple of weeks ago when I noticed that the very same thing had happened again, melted socket, melted plug!!
The circuit has a 10 amp throw out breaker switch in the consumer unit, it also has another similarly powered 10 amp breaker in the Rolec hook up point and the 3 pin plug has a 10 amp fuse fitted to it, yet none of these had tripped or blown????
I am now thinking of getting rid of the 3 pin plug and fitting a EHU type socket complete with a 10 amp trip as well as a correct waterproof IP67 EHU type plug as these should have more than enough capability of carrying the loadings of a basic EV hook up cable.
Of course I could get the professionals in, but I can think of far better ways of spending my hard earned!!
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated