mrcharlesho
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I recently leased a 2013 Leaf SV and love the car! I've been exploring different Lv 2 EVSEs and am pretty settled with the Leviton EVB32. I'm pretty inept at electric work, so I've been in contact with my electrician about getting it installed.
Just some quick info, I park the Leaf in my garage, and my garage shares a wall with my circuit box. In fact, where I want the Leviton installed is almost directly behind where the circuit box is. I let my electrician know and told him this should minimize the amount of copper that he needs to run.
I also sent him the installation manual for the Leviton so he would have an idea of what is involved.
Today, he emailed me a quote of $390 to install!!! The breakdown was $75.63 for part, wire, and hardware and about 4.5 hours at $70/hour.
This is obviously WAY more than I expected (I was looking for neighborhood of $200), but since I don't know much about electric work, I'm not sure how to best communicate to him that this job will probably be way easier (to him at least) than he thinks.
Do you guys have any tips?
ALSO on an unrelated note... I've been looking at the Leviton EVB32 and the EVB45. Other than one being 7.7kW and the other 7.2kW and some cosmetic differences, they seem pretty similar. Are there other differences between the units I should know about?
Thanks in advance!!!!
Just some quick info, I park the Leaf in my garage, and my garage shares a wall with my circuit box. In fact, where I want the Leviton installed is almost directly behind where the circuit box is. I let my electrician know and told him this should minimize the amount of copper that he needs to run.
I also sent him the installation manual for the Leviton so he would have an idea of what is involved.
Today, he emailed me a quote of $390 to install!!! The breakdown was $75.63 for part, wire, and hardware and about 4.5 hours at $70/hour.
This is obviously WAY more than I expected (I was looking for neighborhood of $200), but since I don't know much about electric work, I'm not sure how to best communicate to him that this job will probably be way easier (to him at least) than he thinks.
Do you guys have any tips?
ALSO on an unrelated note... I've been looking at the Leviton EVB32 and the EVB45. Other than one being 7.7kW and the other 7.2kW and some cosmetic differences, they seem pretty similar. Are there other differences between the units I should know about?
Thanks in advance!!!!