I was trying to charge a Nissan Leaf with a ? Iam not sure but two VFX i think old age.. i mostly rember having the problem. I think the car harger had a max of 2kw
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 3:41 PM Jay <jay.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’ve got offgrid 2 clients and they have no issues. > > They each have a Bolt and can choose the charging rate. They can run it at > either power. But only use higher power when they have lots of sun. > Older Stacked vfx and Schneider xw, no issues. > > I would expect the SW to work, however it’s an odd beast as it’s waveform > steps change with load. More load, more steps, therefor cleaner so maybe at > lower charge rate it’s not clean enough. > > As to your issue it could be power factor Being really poor. > Can you tell us what inverter, yea 5 years ago is a long time. > > > > Jay > > Peltz power. > > > > > > On Jun 7, 2020, at 11:53 AM, Darryl Thayer <darylsol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think you said it well, about 5 years ago I tried to charge a car from > an off-grid system. I did not record my events but the inverter had twice > the power of the level two charger, yet the inverter would get hot and trip > out. I was told a ferroresonant transformer may help, and it might be > different with different cars. However, I was warned the ferroresonant was > to stop input wave problems from arriving at the output not to prevent the > output wave problems showing up on the input. The off-grid customer gave > up. > > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 6:36 AM Hilton Dier III <hiltond...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The issue with EV chargers is that they create a lot of reactive power. >> Think of it as "slosh" in the waveform. That means that charging at 2,000 >> watts sloshes a lot more than 2kW through the cable, plug, outlet, and from >> the inverter. If you've got a reasonably good sinewave inverter the charger >> will like it fine. However, the inverter might not like the charger if you >> cut things too close. Make sure to have a lot of top end left in your >> inverter. Always use a transformer based inverter. The SW series has a big >> chunk of metal in it, so that's good. At 120V the Bolt will only draw 1440 >> watts max. >> >> An aftermarket Bolt 240V charger can draw up to 32 amps. That's 7.7 kW, >> so too big for an SW. Treat it more like 40 amps. The OEM 120/240 EVSE >> (smart charging cord) that comes with the car can draw 8 or 12 amps at 120V >> or 12 at 240V. Assume that the 8 amps is really 12 and the 12 is really 15 >> or a bit more. I have seen 15 amp plugs and outlets with the hot prong >> melting plastic around it. The plug on the OEM EVSE is 20A rated but make >> sure your outlet is as well. >> >> -- >> Hilton Dier III >> Missisquoi River Hydro >> Renewable Energy Design >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance >> >> List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org >> >> Change listserver email address & settings: >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >> >> List-Archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html >> >> List rules & etiquette: >> www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm >> >> Check out or update participant bios: >> www.members.re-wrenches.org >> >> _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > >
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