7/11/22kW AC Single Gun Residential/Commercial

Product Overview

This is the AC half of most EV charging solutions: the unit that tops a car up while it sits outside a house, a hotel or an office, rather than the one a driver hunts down mid-trip. It is a single gun wall box offered in three power ratings — 7, 11 or 22 kW — and once the rating is settled, the housing, screen, cable and controller stay the same. The 7 kW version is the most common choice. On a vehicle with roughly 400 km of range, a full charge takes about 6 to 8 hours, which fits an overnight stop or a working day almost exactly. The higher ratings shorten that window where the site's supply can carry them; where it cannot, the bigger number buys nothing but a slower-than-advertised session and an unhappy driver. Control sits behind the front panel rather than in it. The build is deliberately unexciting in the way good infrastructure should be: a sealed housing for wall or column mounting, a gun that reaches its stated protection only when it is properly holstered, and a controller that keeps working through a supply that sags or spikes. There is no fan to service and nothing that needs routine adjustment between inspections.

- Three ratings, one platform. The 7, 11 and 22 kW builds share the same housing, screen and controller, so a 22kW EV charger on a hotel forecourt and a 7 kW unit on a garage wall are installed, configured and serviced the same way — one spare-parts list, one commissioning routine, one platform view. - A screen drivers can read from the car. A colour display paired with an LED indicator light shows session status, energy delivered and faults without the driver opening an app, which matters on shared sites where a bay has to look obviously free or obviously busy. The screen is non-touch, so there is no glass surface to wear out in a public car park. - Open protocol, not a lock-in. As an OCPP EV charger it registers on a back office of your choosing — your own, a third party's, or our in-house O&M platform — so the software decision stays separate from the hardware decision. - A protection chain rather than a single trip. Overvoltage, undervoltage, overcurrent, leakage, grounding, overheating and surge are all watched, so a sagging supply, a damp connection or a fault in the vehicle ends the session instead of the electronics. - Metering you can bill from. Level 1 measurement accuracy gives every session an energy figure that stands up to tenant recharge, staff reimbursement or straightforward cost reporting, without a second meter on the wall. - Quiet, fan-free operation. Cooling is passive, so there is no fan noise next to a bedroom window or a hotel terrace — the kind of detail that decides whether a wall-mounted unit is tolerated or complained about. - One box, one installer. The unit arrives complete with its cable and gun, light enough for a single fitter to position on a wall or a column; the time goes into the supply and the earthing, not the lifting. - Part of a wider supply base. AC charging stations, DC cabinets, portable chargers, cables and adapters come from the same network, which is what makes a multi-site EV charging solutions order manageable rather than a coordination job across four vendors.

Ratings & Operating Environment

Charging Control & OCPP Integration

OCPP 1.6J is what decides how much of the operation lives in software. The protocol is the link between the charger and a back office: sessions are authorised and stopped from the platform, energy and status are reported back, and access rules or tariffs are applied centrally instead of being programmed into each unit by hand.

You can register the charger on a platform you already run, or use our in-house O&M platform if you would rather not operate one. Both routes use the same interface. As an OCPP EV charger it is not tied to a single vendor's cloud, and moving between platforms later is a configuration change rather than a replacement.

Getting a site connected is usually the step that delays an EV charging solutions rollout, so settle it early. Ethernet is the right answer where a building already has structured cabling and a switch port near the bay. 4G suits an open car park with nothing to plug into, provided the signal is tested at the exact mounting position rather than at the site gate. Wi-Fi works for a home or a small office where the router is close and the network is stable. One route per site, chosen before the units arrive.

Before a roll-out, put four questions to whoever runs your platform: which OCPP version it supports, whether it handles the charge point identity you plan to use, how firmware updates are pushed to units in the field, and what it needs from the site network. Send us the answers and we will confirm the configuration before the order is released.

Worth being clear about what OCPP is not. It is not the vehicle communication protocol, and it does not change how much power the car can accept — it is the charger-to-back-office link, and the charging session itself is limited by the vehicle and by the supply the site can provide.

Installation & Site Preparation

1. Check the supply before you choose the rating. A 22kW EV charger only earns its place where the supply behind it can carry the load, and that load figure is the one thing commercial EV charging station manufacturers cannot give you. 2. Decide the mounting before the ground is finished. A wall fixing needs a solid, flat surface at a sensible height; a column needs a base and a route for the supply. Change that decision after the concrete is poured and the cost is in the civil work, not the charger. 3. Plan the cable route while the wall is still open. Leave a service loop where the supply enters the housing, keep the bend radius generous at the gland, and check that the charging cable drops clear of the car door when the gun is holstered. 4. Set the height around the driver, not the electrician. Screen and holster should sit comfortably for someone standing beside the car — too low and the cable drags on the ground, too high and shorter drivers cannot reach the holster. 5. Provide a real earth. Grounding is one of the monitored protections, and the charger will not behave on a floating or borrowed earth. Test it before commissioning rather than after the first reported fault. 6. Terminate, torque and photograph. Take a picture of the incoming terminals before the cover goes back on; it is the fastest way to answer a question six months later when a different contractor is on site. 7. Commission on the connection you will actually use. Power up, check the display and the indicator light, connect over the chosen route, register the unit on the platform, then run a full test session and record the energy the meter reports against the energy the vehicle took. 8. Hand over with a record. Note the meter start value, the breaker rating, the platform identity and the connector standard on a commissioning sheet; on a multi-bay site this is what keeps units distinguishable when a fault is reported by bay number.

Applications

• Private driveways. The overnight case the 7 kW rating was designed around: park, plug in, and by morning the car is full. Mounting on a garage or house wall keeps the cable run short and puts the unit where the household supply already arrives.
• Apartment and condo parking. Shared bays where the building has to decide who charges and recharge the energy to the right household. Session metering plus platform control does that without an attendant on site.
• Hotels and guest parking. A guest who has never seen the charger before should be able to plug in and read the status without asking at reception — the display and the indicator light carry most of that job.
• Offices and staff car parks. Cars sit for a full working day, which is the ideal duty cycle for AC charging; the units register on one platform so facilities can see the whole row at once.
• Dealerships and workshops. Delivery-day top-ups, service loans and customer charging, with a session record available if anyone asks what went into a particular vehicle.
• Light fleet depots. Vans and pool cars that return to a fixed bay overnight and have to leave again in the morning; 11 or 22 kW shortens the turnaround where the supply allows it.
• Small commercial car parks and mixed-use sites. As a commercial EV charging station this draws a modest, predictable load compared with a DC cabinet, so most buildings can add bays without rebuilding the incoming supply.
• Sites that grow. Where the same location later needs DC fast charging, the range continues with 20/30/40/50 kW DC single gun units and 60-360 kW DC dual gun cabinets, plus the 7.2/22 kW PCD050 portable charger, so the AC bays now and the DC bays later can be ordered together.

Electrical Specifications

Ordering & Delivery

1. Tell us what the site has to do. A single driveway, a hotel forecourt, a staff car park or a mixed EV charging solutions rollout — the destination market, the number of bays and the vehicles involved all change the build we recommend.
2. Confirm the rating and the connector together. We check the site supply against the 7, 11 and 22 kW builds, and we confirm the connector standard for the market before anything is released.
3. Compare the build, not just the badge. We work with partner factories rather than a single production line, so if you are already talking to commercial EV charging station manufacturers, we can show you where this unit differs — the controller, the protection chain and the session metering are the parts worth putting side by side.
4. Agree the quantity. Flexible MOQ & delivery is how we work: start with the units a first site or a trial bay needs and scale from there, with the schedule fixed when the order is confirmed.
5. Line up the platform in parallel. If you are using your own back office, have the account and the access rules ready; if you are using ours, we set it up as part of the order.
6. Sort the export side early. One-stop export service covers the export documentation and the consolidation, so a mixed order travels under one set of papers instead of several.
7. Ask about warranty and spares with your quotation. Warranty terms, covered parts and the spare parts worth holding on a multi-unit site are agreed per order — ask your sales contact what applies to yours.
8. Get the documentation that goes with the units. Datasheets, the parameter list and the declarations your installer or local authority needs can be prepared; tell us the format required and who it is going to.

Supply Chain & Delivery Assurance

We are a trading company rather than a manufacturer, and what we put behind every order is the supplier network we work with: we match your specification, certification and target-market requirements to the right partner factory, then consolidate the full order into one shipment so you deal with a single contact from quotation to arrival. That structure also lets us act as your second supplier when you want to reduce dependence on a single source. Sourcing, pre-shipment inspection, OEM and private-label coordination, export documentation and after-sales follow-up all sit with our team.

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