Hi Alan,
Thanks for your honest feedback.
The past few years have been tough for hardware manufacturing, we’ve had to deal with severe component shortages, which have heavily influenced what we can and cannot design and manufacture.
Keeping older products stocked in the shop and continuing manufacturing batches for older hardware is a significant a drain on resources. As a small team, we need to focus our resources on our current products.
The EmonEVSE has been discontinued, we still have some OpenEVSE kits in stock but going forward its best if customers order directly from the OpenEVSE store. Most customers were choosing the OpenEVSE kit rather than the pre-assembled EmonEVSE. Continuing regulatory certification for the EmonEVSE was becoming a burden, and we recently came to the end of a manufacturing run and due to the high setup costs and high MOQ for injection moulding the enclosure, it doesn’t make sense to do another run with low sales volume.
We have a number of these in stock, I’ve updated the stock count:
This has been discontinued a number of years ago, it never sold very well. We can’t compete with other low cost WiFi relays which are on the market.
This is a good point. We’ve now created an ‘Archived’ shop category , we’ll try and ensure older discontinued products are moved to this category rather than fully removed.