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Declan

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Do I need a proper home charger, or is a normal socket genuinely fine?

Electrician here, and I want to put a boundary around the socket route rather than just endorsing it.

It is fine on a good, modern, dedicated socket. It is genuinely not fine on an old one, on an extension lead of any kind, or on a socket shared with anything else. The failure mode is the socket and its wiring warming up over hours every night for years, and it shows up as discolouration around the pins long before anything dramatic happens.

If you are going to do it, get someone to look at that specific socket once, and go and feel the plug an hour into a charge for the first week. Warm is expected. Hot is not.

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