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Real installs. Real Melbourne homes. We post photos and full details from every job we finish — including the technical detail behind how we solved it.
Mount Eliza — Zappi v2.1 with Tesla Powerwall 3 + 40A supply
Zappi installed on a home with a Powerwall 3, an expansion pack and around 15kW of DC-coupled solar. The circuit lands on the supply side of the Tesla Gateway rather than the home side, so the battery can't discharge into the car — the owner buys at wholesale prices overnight and would rather fill from the grid than from storage. Grid CT hardwired at the main switchboard instead of a wireless harvi, which goes quiet when a battery holds grid flow near zero. Charge current set at commissioning so total demand stays inside a 40A main switch, avoiding a supply upgrade.
Charger: myenergi Zappi v2.1 (black, 6.5m tethered). Install: single-phase, carport post mount, dedicated 32A circuit, ~9m cable run. Vehicle: Jaecoo J5. CoES lodged with Energy Safe Victoria.
Vermont South — Tesla Wall Connector Gen 3 with switchboard reconfiguration + earthing rectification
Tesla Wall Connector installed on a single-phase supply where the main switchboard had no free ways left. Rather than hanging a sub-board on the wall, nine breakers were converted to single-module RCBOs and the main switch replaced, which freed the space for the EV circuit and left capacity for future circuits without a second enclosure. Testing before energisation found the property had no functioning earth and the main equipotential bond had failed — the earth had been connected to a metal water pipe, standard practice in Victoria until the late 1970s, and it stops working the moment that pipe is replaced with plastic. Nobody knows until someone tests it. A new earth electrode and bond were installed, which is prescribed work in Victoria, so an independent licensed electrical inspector attended and signed it off before supply was restored.
Charger: Tesla Wall Connector Gen 3 (white, 7.3m tethered), Install: single-phase, brick wall mount, dedicated 32A circuit to the garage via a double-pole isolator. Vehicle: Tesla Model Y. CoES lodged with Energy Safe Victoria.
Preston — Evnex E2 Core with sonnen battery + dual-inverter solar
Evnex E2 Core installed alongside about 13kW of solar across two inverters and a sonnenBatterie with blackout backup. The circuit lands on the grid supply, not the battery-backed side, so charging can't draw down the backup reserve. The CT clamp sits at the grid connection point upstream of the battery's own meter, so load management reads the whole property and eases the BYD back before the 63A main is troubled.
Charger: Evnex E2 Core (Volcanic, 5m tethered). Install: single-phase, rendered pillar mount, dedicated 32A circuit, ~10m cable run. Vehicle: BYD Sealion 7. CoES lodged with Energy Safe Victoria.
Point Cook — Zappi v2.1 with Tesla Powerwall 3 + solar integration
Zappi installed alongside existing solar and a Tesla Powerwall 3. The CT clamp sits on the normal supply line rather than the Powerwall's backup zone, so the charger reads true grid flow and only ramps up on genuine surplus. Because the Powerwall 3 is DC-coupled — solar and battery sharing one inverter — there's no separate battery conductor to monitor, so the usual Avoid Drain approach has nothing to clamp onto. The charger runs on export margin instead, drawing only when the house is genuinely sending power back, which keeps the battery out of it without relying on a setting the architecture can't support.
Charger: myenergi Zappi v2.1 (white, 6.5m tethered). Install: single-phase, brick pillar mount, short cable run. Vehicle: BYD Sealion 7. CoES lodged with Energy Safe Victoria.
Hallam — MG Charge Hub PRO with GoodWe battery + 63A supply
MG Charge Hub PRO installed on a home with a GoodWe hybrid inverter, three battery modules and rooftop solar. The circuit lands on the grid supply side of the board rather than anything the battery backs up, so the house battery can't empty itself into the car overnight. This charger has no CT input and no load management of its own, so the limit had to be set in the hardware instead — a maximum demand assessment put the house at 92A with a 25A charger against a 63A main switch, so the output was set to 16A on the charger's internal rotary switch and the circuit protected accordingly. Under AS/NZS 3000 a fixed setting like that is a legitimate limitation method, which keeps the whole installation inside the existing supply and avoids a mains upgrade.
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Charger: MG Charge Hub PRO (silver, 5m tethered), customer-supplied, with a weather canopy fitted. Install: single-phase, brick wall mount, dedicated circuit on a Type A RCBO, output limited to 16A. Vehicle: MG4 Essence 64. CoES lodged with Energy Safe Victoria.
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