Anyone purchase a Wallbox charger?

[Bobcat17]

I couldn't find a Ford Level 2 charger even with Ford Car Dealership's help when I bought my Mach E and didn't want to wait 1 1/2 days to charge on the Level 1 charger. I ordered a Wallbox Level 2 charger as salesman told me it would charge at least as fast as Ford Level 2. I ordered through Amazon and had it in 2 days. Once I had the 220 line installed in garage, I have been using Wallbox ever since. I tested Wallbox vs. Ford Charger received with purchase (changed out the 110 plug on the Ford Charger for the 220 plug converter) to see how they would compare. Wallbox gives me 24 miles per hour of charge, Ford 16 miles. 50% more miles with Wallbox. I paid approx. $600 for Wallbox. Time is money I guess.

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[methorian]

I've had two Wallbox Pulsar Plus EVSEs installed for a year now in power-sharing mode on a 50A circuit.

They've been great, no complaints.

You'll find threads with lots of discussions about the various EVSE offerings here. Here's one about the Wallbox Pulsar Plus:

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/wallbox-pulsar-plus.3071/

 

[RosarioM]

I couldn't find a Ford Level 2 charger even with Ford Car Dealership's help when I bought my Mach E and didn't want to wait 1 1/2 days to charge on the Level 1 charger. I ordered a Wallbox Level 2 charger as salesman told me it would charge at least as fast as Ford Level 2. I ordered through Amazon and had it in 2 days. Once I had the 220 line installed in garage, I have been using Wallbox ever since. I tested Wallbox vs. Ford Charger received with purchase (changed out the 110 plug on the Ford Charger for the 220 plug converter) to see how they would compare. Wallbox gives me 24 miles per hour of charge, Ford 16 miles. 50% more miles with Wallbox. I paid approx. $600 for Wallbox. Time is money I guess.

I’ve had the Wallbox a little over a month now and it’s been working great. I think the app gives you good info on cost and has some features like delayed start but I use FordPass for that instead.

I had an issue yesterday where FordPass kept saying charge interrupted and I realized that when I was in the Wallbox app I accidentally hit the pause button. It’s not a push and hold type like the remote start on FordPass. So just make sure you don’t accidentally pause charging from the app.

 

[2FlyMache]

I've had mine since I bought the car last June. Love it! Might not have all the app features of some of the others but has everything I need out of it

 

[generaltso]

I have a Wallbox Pulsar Plus and a ChargePoint Home Flex. The Wallbox is generally great. My only complaint is that I wish the app showed a graph of the charging session like ChargePoint does.

 

[2FlyMache]

I have a Wallbox Pulsar Plus and a ChargePoint Home Flex. The Wallbox is generally great. My only complaint is that I wish the app showed a graph of the charging session like ChargePoint does.

Mine has graphs and statistics. Is the ChargePoint graph different?

 

[Deleted member 9461]

Checkout the ENEL/Juice Box- formerly Juice Werks, does everything, or just acts dumb and just charges the car. They are fast to respond if you have questions.

 

[generaltso]

Mine has graphs and statistics. Is the ChargePoint graph different?

The Wallbox app does not show a graph of a charging session. I find this immensely helpful with ChargePoint to see when the charge may have dipped, when it tapered, or when it may have started pulling power again for battery warming or preconditioning. The Wallbox app shows you the power draw in real-time when you look at it, but I haven't found a way to look at the entire session to see what it has done since you plugged it in. This is what it looks like in the ChargePoint app:

 

[2FlyMache]

The Wallbox app does not show a graph of a charging session. I find this immensely helpful with ChargePoint to see when the charge may have dipped, when it tapered, or when it may have started pulling power again for battery warming or preconditioning. The Wallbox app shows you the power draw in real-time when you look at it, but I haven't found a way to look at the entire session to see what it has done since you plugged it in. This is what it looks like in the ChargePoint app:

Thanks, yeah it just shows a bar graph of totals for the day

 

[generaltso]

Thanks, yeah it just shows a bar graph of totals for the day

Yeah, the total for the day doesn't give me what I'm after, unfortunately. I've submitted a feature request to Wallbox for session graphing, but who knows if it will ever be added.

 

[methorian]

Yeah, the total for the day doesn't give me what I'm after, unfortunately. I've submitted a feature request to Wallbox for session graphing, but who knows if it will ever be added.

This was also one of the first things I submitted to them as well. For now I rely on the Home Assistant integration to get a graph view of power output over time.

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