EV Charge Controller — Bender -EV CC612

Here is my brief write up on Bender EV Charge Controller CC612

I did a product evaluation on Bender CC612 controller and if are evaluating or developing AC charging solutions this one the best devices to buy.

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1. The company is very well organized and all the information is readily available.They have great documentation and it’s easily consumable to anybody and everybody weather you are a product owner or a developer bender has all the information available.
2. The executives and the company point of contacts are very well reachable and are available to you if you need them (this is one of the most important aspect for a product evaluation). I have called Mr Raghavendra Sajjan(company point of contact in Bangalore) when ever i needed help or to share information and he has happily obliged .
3. The product evaluation was detailed and i got sufficient amount of time to do a detailed evaluation. I have had horrible experiences with large multinational corporation products and even after buying the charging stations from a leading global charger manufacturer i am struggling with them to get things going ( i shall share my experience some time else).
4. I did have some questions and suggestions and feedback on the product and the team in Germany responded immediately answering all the queries .

My Environment :

Connected to on an USB cable

Nataraj EV Home Lab — Bender Charge Controller

You should be able to access the NIC easily and the web interface is available on http://192.168.123.123/

Information is very easy to find you could get to know the charger state and it’s complete status in this state information page.

Bender Charge Controller State

Settings

Login in to setting to change the charge controller settings http://192.168.123.123/settings

Change the configuration here for the below based on your environment

ChargePointID , GSM APN , OCPP URL

GSM APN Settings:

Airtel: airtelgprs.com

JIO : jionet

Bender configuration details

Operator Login : http://192.168.123.123/operator

User name: operator Password: <Refer the documentation>

Manufacturer Login : http://192.168.123.123/manufacturer/

User name: manufacturer, Password: <Refer the documentation>

Bender Controller State

Note: I have used an antenna, feel free to use it if the network does not connect easily or if there is no proper reception.

The connectivity to OCPP server was done with ease and it worked both with USB and SIM network interfaces.