garygid said:
Please, what do the "stickers" (UL, listing, ratings, etc.) on the CC-30 itself say?
Is the manual available on-line (where)?
If you write Len Fein (
[email protected]) (So Cal, AZ, HI) or Dave Packard (
[email protected]) (No Cal, WA, OR) or Mike Paritee (
[email protected]) (MD & DC) they should be able to get you a spec sheet on any of the Clipper Creek units that an Electrician can use to hook it up. If you are, like me, in TN, TX, AL, GA, SC, NC or VA, then you want the very kind and friendly CC employee Don Francis (
[email protected]), who I've been working with to get my CS-100. Don is out most of the next 2 weeks so if you want him to get you something best do it by today or maybe one of the other regional representatives can help.
Yes, I'm going CC. Pricey, for sure. But $750 off for my Electric Auto Association membership -- which is only $35 -- is well worth it.
CC should have a number of CS-40s in stock and hopefully has parts for the CS-100 upgrade so that I can get my EVSE here in the Commonwealth (of VA, not PA or MA or KT -- and what's the deal with that? If you ask me, Commonwealth sounds a bit to much like Communist!) by the second week of December, I hope. Assuming Tina calls me today to take my payment.
Why CC? Well, the Leviton EVB22-3PM (16A) won't be available until January and although I'm sure I could find an electrical contractor who could fudge the work order dates and the IRS wouldn't bother digging into the County Inspection records or the specific of when the Leviton EVSE became available, I wanted something that could do at least 6.6kW all along, so had my eye on the the EVB45-3PD, the 30A unit. Now, there's been no firm date on the EVB45-3PD and although it could be a couple months only between the EVB22-3PM and the EVB45-3PD, my preferred electrical contractor tells me that when he called Leviton that it would be about a year before the EVB45-3PD would be released. 6 months would be okay if I had a July delivery even if I forsook the EVSE tax credit, but I don't want to get my EVSE L2 charger
after I take delivery!
So I agree with EVDriver that ChargeAmerica is at best questionable and I've seen these CC before at the D.C. Auto Show back in February and although they are, IMHO, the butt-ugliest EVSEs I've ever seen and relatively over-priced, they are, as others have said, durable and CC has been doing this for years with both the Tesla and the Mini-Es, so you get quality, functionality, reliability and a company that's likely to be around for years, not "
criminals" like AV, and not restricted to Volt-only like some other manufacturers and I think CC deserves to be rewarded for their contribution to the EAA community and especially for its generous discount for EAA members.