Recent content by darelldd

Oh good. I figured that I must have posted my final set of pictures. With my comments, that pretty much tells the story. Been a while though.... and I'm old... so I forgot. :-)

Hi Gary, If you have a look at the second page of this thread, you'll see an image of the diode inside the Clipper Creek. Opening the charger is as easy as opening a car door, so nothing was taken apart. That proved it would work, but would only help THIS charger. So I eventually installed that...

Ha. You bet! You should see my beer supply these days! Meantime, we've charged on everything without fail. Even those pesky GE stations that apparently caused the problem in the first place. And I should give a shout-out to Clipper Creek who stood by to help me all through the process. They...

Interesting idea for sure. Though I find adapters to be quite a bit of trouble in use. I especially like the surge protection idea. In the end though, if you're going to put the effort in, I think doing it once and doing it right is the better choice than having to first create this adapter...

:-) No worries. It looked much prettier after I shrunk the transparent shrink tube (the haze goes away, and it is totally clear). I've been soldering for over 40 years. My equipment has gotten much better, but my eyesight has gone to crap... For the record, I used the clear shrink tube on...

It really is absurd. I wonder - when they've done this "fix" over the years, what do they do with the perfectly-functional OBC's? If I could buy those up for $100, replace the surface-mount diode, and resell them for $1000, I could do pretty well! Then this repair would cost the customer maybe...

Well, you made me go look at the pics again. The joint on the right has a bit too much solder. The joint on the left is actually higher quality. Regardless, both of them are fully bonded. Fear not. Neither of those solder joints will be the failure point! Four charges later on the two EVSEs...

I can get lost in a few blocks. Limited range is not a factor!

https://darelldd.smugmug.com/Automotive/Electric-Vehicle/n-7QXrQ/Nissan-Leaf-charging/i-rcsHp8p Some pictures with captions.

I am happy to announce that the fix is in place, and working perfectly. I'll put a few pictures together that may help others do this in the future. I'm pretty dang happy about this! The entire project took me less than half an hour, including taking pictures, dropping screws, cleaning up, and...

Here's what I've done. The orange wire is the pilot wire from the cable assembly that terminates in the J1772 connector. The blue wire is the pilot wire from the CS-40. You see how easy this was. I just put the diode inline with that wire. Taped for insulation, and I was pretty obvious where the...

Ha! You're confusing this with a customer service experience that cares! My car charges - on basically ONE EVSE. The one at the dealer shop. And it charges on the little110V device that came with my car. Because it charges on the two Nissan devices (that fail to check for that diode), the dealer...

For those of you who have been holding your breath: The diode solution is going to work! So far I have temporarily added the diode to the pilot wire of my Clipper Creek CS-40. The test was a success. Clearly I even managed to install it the correct way around. Now I just need to install it...

Nailed it! All fixed. Thanks!

I am sorry, though not surprised, to hear that! I've had just the one interaction with the dealer. First thing the tech did was plug in the DC fast charger to show me that there was no problem. Yeah. And then when I mentioned that the problem is only when the OBC is engaged... and the whole...