Tonight here in Cincinnati we're suppossed to get to -3 for the low. So far the '13 leaf I have does fine for heating. If I dont pre-heat I'll see usually 3~4kw of usage for about 5 to 10 minutes then it stays around 1.5kw after that for a little longer until the car hits temperature. I can...
Hey guys, I have a question. I drive a Nissan Leaf (of course lol) and I have recently stopped to check out the Tesla EVSE stations (not to mention look at the cars) at Kenwood Towne Center here in Cincinnati, and I noticed that there is actually a 120v nema 15-20 plug facing the non Tesla spots...
I was thinking of an Idea, and I have no idea If anyone has posted this suggestion. I think it would be a neat feature if you could have a live feed or even photo and motion detection if someone gets too close to a Nissan Leaf. I was thinking of this because a neighbor's car had gotten broken...
I have some bad news for you guys over these stations in Sawyer Point. Someone has vandalized both the plugs off the first dual EVSE. Saw the negative comment and photo on plugshare. This stuff just makes me sick. Felon scrappers just running around ripping everyone off, not to mention that this...
1 thing about the heater that I've noticed.
I live in Cincinnati, Ohio and we've had very cold weather this year. I purchased my 2013 leaf SV in October, So its only been through cold weather so far, dropping as low as -14F in January. What I've noticed is that the Heat pump half of the heater...
I'm wandering, just in case, could all my problems had happened because my voltage was over 240? its usually 244volts without load, then it goes to 242v when I start charging. maybe the programming wasn't set for over 240 volts? thats the only reason I could think as to why it wouldn't work...
Nevermind, I found out why it wouldn't compile. I didn't have the Library files in my c\arduino\libraries folder. Will try to edit it now and see if I can get it to work right. I've successfully compiled it so I just need to load it.. hopefully this works and makes my evse work at 6.6kw now.
I would love to make changes and upload to the Arduino, but every time I try to upload, it says "expected constructor, Destructor or type conversion before "*" token, as well as a few more errors.. this is unedited firmware that I downloaded from emw, and its not letting me load it to the EVSE...
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This is what they had at microcenter, i'm going to run out today and get it, hopefully it will work in fixing my 120/240 issue.
now looking at the code, where exactly do I put...
So im not much for code, but should I go to Microcenter and order an Ardurino usb programmer so I can reprogram it?.. starting to wander if this EVSE is over my head lol. :oops:
Well, hopefully I'll figure this out sometime. It only drops 2-3 volts when charging. from 243v to 241v under 14.5 amps. both Legs of the 220v line are 121.5 under load from the ground peg. I've only got a fluke 77 and haven't got a multimeter that can check duty cycle yet, hope I can borrow one...
also Levi, none of the suggestions worked that you mentioned. I'm going to try and wire up a 6-50 welders plug to it and see if it works on that outlet at 6.6kw, that way, I'll know its something at my home instead of the charger.
I wish i was in California! but no, I'm in Cincinnati, where an EV is basicly alien. I think whats happening is something is limiting my current, either programming in the juicebox (firmware) or or maybe (hope not) something with my wiring. My 240 line is 10 AWG @ about 6ft from my power box...