A property manager called last month, pretty frustrated. Four chargers sitting in the lot, all installed, all marked “ready.” Drivers were pulling in, plugging in, walking off to grab coffee, and coming back to cars that hadn’t picked up a single mile. No useful error code. Just nothing.
The situation described in cnet.com, “The Waggle Pet Temperature Sensor Dropped to Its Lowest Price Ever For Amazon’s Spring Sale” reflects how small signals get missed until somebody actually notices the equipment isn’t doing what it’s supposed to. Same thing happens with chargers. From the outside they look fine.
What we found on that Sarasota lot wasn’t dramatic. The service feeding the chargers couldn’t handle all four pulling at once, so the units were throttling down to almost nothing during busy hours. Whoever wired it sized the load like a residential install. It wasn’t.
Commercial steelcityelectricfl.com, “EV charger installation” isn’t just mounting a unit on a pedestal and running conduit. You have to plan for simultaneous draw, panel headroom, conductor sizing for the runs across a parking lot and what the utility is actually going to give you at the service. Skip any of that and you end up with chargers that technically work and practically don’t.
If your lot has chargers and drivers keep complaining, don’t assume the units are broken. Check what’s feeding them first.
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