Tesla or Victron EV charger?

Q&A and troubleshooting EVCS
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Hi everyone

I have a ESS Victron system (with MultiPlus 2, Cerbo GX, one AC Fronus 8.2 convertor, 18 kWc PV and 30 kWh Pytes batteries ) and I’m buying two electric vehicles. I am in mono phase, in France.
As one of them is going to be a Tesla Y, would you recommend buying a Tesla charger or Victron EV charger ?

note : I might even go for 2 EV chargers, I guess in the best 6 months I’ll be able to charge 2 x 7 kW

thanks for your return of experience !
regards
Julien

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After having three chargers none are the ones you mentioned but if like the UK you require penfault protection it isn’t inbuilt in the Tesla charger, personally I would recommend HyperVolt if you could get it over there?

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Hello
Could you explain Why ?
( It is twice the price of the Victron’s )

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Smart Tariff compatability, Brilliant load ballancing to safe gaurd DNO service head fuse. i Purchsed a more expencing charger that didn’t seem to load ballance at all well and given its about 2 to 3 hundred more you would expect it to be the other way around. It sisn’t reliant on Wifi ie hardwire with ethernet to.

The ability to go without the mothership if the internet goes ie if you set a schedule and the charger has recived it, the internet could be lost and the charger would obye the shedule times and finish the time it is suposed to without internet connection to the mother ship. Which the expencive one didn’t do as it needed a constant connection to the mothership in order to schedule charge.

Having had an Andersen charger and currently have and indra charger too, when the indra dies HyperVolt would be my go to which breaks my rule of never getting two of the same devices like this so if it did go faulty i would be able to fault find with the other make charger. But at the moment nothing out there touches it IMHO and plus can be Intergrated into Home Assistant

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I also have a Tesla Y and are extremely happy with the EVCS from Víctron