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Yes, one charger for USD700 sounds great, I want one

25 (42.4%)

Yes Yes, I'd take two chargers for USD1250

12 (20.3%)

No, I need a charger that is waterproof/dustproof

14 (23.7%)

No, I'm happy with my current charging setup

4 (6.8%)

No, that price is too high for me

1 (1.7%)

No, I just love filling out polls

3 (5.1%)

Total Members Voted: 59

[evtricity]

Looks great! I've been following this thread and am very interested in getting one of these!

That's great to hear Blotman! We know it's peak riding season in the northern hemisphere so we're keen to get them to you ASAP so you can spend more time riding your Zeros.

It's a little colder where we are at the moment but we have 8 Zeros doing a group ride next weekend from Sydney to Jenolan Caves and return going over the Blue Mountains. Hoping to see a light dusting of snow and enjoying the scenic Bells Line of Road. All 8 bikes will be using our double chargers running at 7.2kW plus the 1.3kW onboard chargers. With 2 Brammos and a Nissan Leaf also along for the trip we stop at showgrounds along the route where they have lots of power available. We'll be posting some photos here and in the ZMC facebook group.

[42Cliffside]

Before you plug a huge demand into their source, ask what they can handle. I think I saw a youtube of one guy burning out a rated powertap at a campground and having to pay $$$ before they could leave....

[42Cliffside]

If you really bring that huge a group demand, someone in the group should have a flir-one or something with them so they can do a walk-thru with the maintenance guy who is responsible for the equipment that provides your power.. They are aware of which circuits are which, and can help you spread the load across their power bus.

[evtricity]

Good point.

The showgrounds run three phase high powered amusement rides every year so they are used to high draw equipment. The last showground we went to had 8 three phase 32a sockets in one distribution board. That's ~180kW in one board. And they had more than 10 distribution boards at the showground! With 10 bikes and a Leaf our maximum draw is under 90kW. This usually gets split across 2 or 3 distribution boards.

The first time we go to a new showgrounds we contact them a few weeks before the ride to inform them of our power requirements and get their OK and pay a small fee if required as the caretaker usually comes to open up for us and show us the power sockets to use.

[grandpa]

Charger seem locked to sydney since wednesday. Any trouble ? :-/

[evtricity]

Charger seem locked to sydney since wednesday. Any trouble ? :-/

Express delivery to France metro areas is 5 business days with Australia Post - see https://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/calculate-postage-delivery-times/#/option/international/AU/FR?fromPostcode=2076. I expect it to be in France by Wednesday since it was sent last Wednesday. 6 of the 7 international shipments sent last Wednesday are in their destination country so yours should be there soon to.

Please send individual support and shipping questions to support@evtricity.com.au.

[evtricity]

* An update on production shipments, charger availability and our recent 9 electric motorcycle road trip powered by EVtricity chargers.

Production charging kits have been sent in the last two weeks to the USA, France, Switzerland, Germany as well owners in Australia. We have now built and shipped over 20 charging kits.

We have double and single charging kits in stock and ready to send. We ship via Australia Post's Express Post service and delivery is generally 5 business days to USA or Europe although can be a little longer with customs in different countries. The service includes tracking so you can see delivery progress.

We have had a delay of supply of the Mennekes plugs for our Type 2 adaptors but we expect to receive them in the next 2-3 days and will ship out to a couple of owners who have been waiting for those.

On our recent electric road trip, we have recorded a "Charging Process" video. I'll post it on Youtube and link to that here. It shows the steps detailed in the User Manual.

Future price changes
One item that I think is important to communicate is that we have purchased the last of the low cost supply of the rectifiers that we use to build the chargers. This low cost supply helped deliver the highest powered Zero charger on the market per dollar (by orders of magnitude over Zero and third party chargers i.e. 2 to 3 times kw per $). While we can purchase rectifiers from other suppliers, the charging kits will increase in price once the current batch are sold. The price increases will be roughly AUD300 (to AUD1240) for a single charger and AUD600 (to AUD2290) for a double charger.

If you are interested in purchasing I would encourage you to do so before the current supply is gone.

Now onto the more exciting electric road trip we did last weekend. We took 7 Zeros - mostly 2014 (S/SR/DS) and one 2016 DSR - bikes on a 400km from Sydney to Jenolan Caves over the famous Blue Mountains along with a couple of Brammo Empulse Rs. The Zero's all used our double chargers which worked flawlessly on the trip. The Brammos are now being configured to support using our double charger to charge two Brammos simultaneously (2 x 4.4kW) along with their 3kW onboard chargers so they can charge at 7.4kW. The 7 Zeros each charged at 7.2-8.5kW (latter with onboard) during the trip.

Have a look at the facebook Zero Motorcycle Owners Group for photos and videos from the trip. I've attached a couple of photos of the bikes and charging below. It was a great trip and what riding electric motorcycles is all about. As one of the group put it - Charge Fast, Ride Fast.

Enjoy riding your Zero however and whenever you can!

[UW4E]

I am awaiting a feedback of those buyers, who ordered from Germany...
Did everything work fine? What did the customs say?

[Булгаков]

I am curious. Do you have any plans to build any chargers with 2x the higher-power Emerson 3500W rectifiers?
Or is the cost just too high? The size of r48-3500e3 appears similar.

[evtricity]

I am awaiting a feedback of those buyers, who ordered from Germany...
Did everything work fine? What did the customs say?

I'll ask our buyers from Germany if they can add their feedback here.

[evtricity]

I am curious. Do you have any plans to build any chargers with 2x the higher-power Emerson 3500W rectifiers?
Or is the cost just too high? The size of r48-3500e3 appears similar.

Nice discovery!

No plans to use the r48-3500e3 at this stage. The r48-3500e3 is 8cm longer at 33cm and power derates at 45C so not quite as good as the r48-2000e3 at 25cm and 65C respectively. Power density per volume and weight is better though. A 7000W DC, ~7300W AC unit could be built and I suspect that the price may be similar to the 4 x r48-2000e3.

I'm contacting suppliers at the moment so will bear this one in mind but I think the main issue is the extra length of 8cm.

In terms of future plans (2018+) I have been considering a 3000W rectifier that has 98% efficiency, even better than the 96% efficiency of the r48-2000e3 we currently use and is more compact and lower weight per kW. But the r48-2000e3 has the most comprehensive features of any rectifier I have found (the AC input limit being very useful to tailor to each Zero owner's available power) and very versatile with the 2000W power level so it will be hard to beat.

Any new rectifier takes months to purchase, decipher the CAN messaging, design and build the PCB connectors, design and build the solid charger case and test everything many times so I don't expect to be releasing a new charging kit with different rectifiers until at least 2018.

[caruso56]

4 days after my PO, the charger kit arrived here in Germany. 5 days for customs, another 2 for local delivery.
After receiving the kit, I immediately drove to a charging point. The single kit with my charge tank type1 makes 7.1 kw, with the side port 5.7 kW. Less space needed (than the quiq charger), more power. Good technical support (related to the charge fuse and DC power cable).
Great. Really great.

[skoleskibe]

Funny that the "zeit bis voll geladen" shows 0:00
As do my app. Grrr


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[caruso56]

Yes, the app shows room for improvements :-)

[grandpa]

Feedback from France.

Delivery :
It Take approx 8 days to deliver (end to end). Big shipping issue. Box (carton) was a little scratched.

Unboxing :
Charger is well protected with lot of moss and bubble plastic. Protection could be enhanced with some plastic parts to fix the charger inside the carton to avoid move during shipping.

But charger was damaged during shipping
1 plastic gland was broken, and rear grid was damaged.

Support :
I contacted David (evtricity). Support was fast and efficiency. David explained me how to repair the grid. He also propose me to send a new grid and cable gland.
I fixed the grid issue.
As it was not easy for me (french) to understand, we have planed a meeting with skype a sunday (really nice support !)
He take 1 hour to explain me in detail, with demonstration, how to change the cable gland.
Now it's clear, david will send me a new cable gland, and i'm confident about changing it.
If i wasn't, he proposed me to send back the charger to Germany for a free repair.

Usage :
As the broken parts are only cosmetic, i can use the charger (carefully)
Tried yesterday in my track session. It change the life !
Charger work fine : 8kW charging power with onboard charger. Anounced time 50min to charge from 25% to 100%.

In fact, charging power start to decrease when bike reach 90%. So charge 90% to 100% take more time than charge from 0% to 90%. But it's probably the same wilth all safe charging solution to not damage the battery. Just remember you can charge from 0 to 80% in approx 1 hour ;-)

So, Great product, Great support. I strongly recommand Evtricity for this external charging solution !