Hi Lee etc,
I also have a 2013 Leaf. Did you make an adapter to go from the 120V plug to the 14/50 240V plug on the Leaf's portable EVSE? I know my Tesla portable is rated for 32A at 240V max (just plugged in/works great) but I didn't know the Leaf was rated for 240V (15A probably). Our REEVA club VP had *two* Tesla Wall Mount EVSE's die in the last few years (running at 48A). Maybe the portable EVSE's operating at lower current are more conducive to longevity J Best Regards, Mark Message: 2 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:36:07 -0500 From: Lee Hart <[email protected]> To: "(-Phil-) via EV" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] J1772 vs Nema flat blade insertion cycles for EV charging Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > IMO, you can now buy decent heavy-duty well-constructed J1772 EVSEs > for rather low cost, and if you own a Tesla, their wall-connector EVSE > is a good bargain for what you get. If you just dropped many tens of > kilobucks on a new EV, do yourself a favor and get a decent EVSE. > Save the included portable unit for emergencies/travel. The portable > units are much less reliable, so if you get a wall-mounted one, you > then have a backup should it fail. That may be true in general, though my own luck has been the opposite. My wall-mount EVSE failed 6 months after I got it, but I'm still using the portable EVSE that came with our 2013 Nissan Leaf every day without problems. In my 40+ years of EV driving, I've had my share of NEMA-15 (120v 15a) connectors fail; but have never had a NEMA 14-50 failure. I think part of the reason are cheap 120v outlets with push-in wire connections, and that I don't use NEMA 14-50's at even half their rated amps. Lee -- All children are born engineers. Watch them at play. They're not just playing; they're experimenting, building and learning. That's engineering! Then we get them in school and squash it out of them. (Geoffrey Orsak, Southern Methodist University dean of engineering) Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh REEVA Demo: <http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0> http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0 <https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/a88920376f864ecabaed843dd89 75b8d/signature> Fincastle Solar Weather Station -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210327/205cf8d5/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
