Hi Lawrence, While I did not look at the inlet wiring while you were here, I do not recall any spade connectors in the pictures that you posted some time ago of the internals of the box. It may be something else that is overheating, though it is more likely that the box itself measures something like current drawn or ground fault current or so and decides to shut off for some reason. What is the behavior when it stops? Does the contactor drop out or does the car decide to stop charging or what is going on when it fails?
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Hart via EV Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:53 PM To: Lawrence Rhodes; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Avcon to J1772 works great for 2 minutes From: Lawrence Rhodes > The trigger works. Press & it stops charging. But after 2 minutes more or > less it just quits. The MCS100-III has a couple of lights which doesn't > light. 120v&240v selector which doesn't seem to care what setting it is on. > The unit was made in 1997 & has been out of service for 15 years. Any former > Ev plus users with insights? Just a long shot... I have an Avcon PowerPak. I opened it up a few weeks ago to measure the AC current it actually draws while charging my Leaf. I noticed that they used 0.25" quick-connects to connect the AC power. One of them had turned brown, and the other was black! 0.25" quick-connects are *not* good for more than about 15 amps. These would certainly have failed if I hadn't noticed the discoloration. I'm not sure what the failure mode of the Avcon would be, but it may be worth taking a look at your AC input connections. Maybe it would detect the excessive voltage drop on the AC line, and shut down? -- Excellence does not require perfection. -- Henry James -- Lee A. Hart http://www.sunrise-ev.com _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
