It's non-adjustable. You need at least a 40 amp circuit. Or use it as L-1.
Thanks. Not the flexibility I was hoping for, but maybe won’t need to beg for a charge at a friends house with a larger capacity battery. With some luck won’t need to haul around the bucket full of cords & adapters for the evseupgrade.LeftieBiker said:It's non-adjustable. You need at least a 40 amp circuit. Or use it as L-1.
rogersleaf said:Does anyone know a real technical reason why Nissan calls for a 50 amp wall outlet to feed a car that pulls a max 27.5 amps? Is the 240v. EVSE cord supplied with the car designed to deliver wattage higher than the current LEAF can accept? Just seems overkill for most situations.
rogersleaf said:Coach81,coach81 said:Current charge rate appears to be 25 miles per hour... that good/normal?
As in.. every 60 mins is about 25 miles recharged.
Wondering if I can get you to look on the brick part of the charge cord for a wattage or amp rating, or model number? Might find it on a label such as UL Labs rating sticker.
Would like to know what Nissan is providing and if it can be adjusted for a lower amperage 240v. supply such as common for a clothes dryer.
I'm not coach81, but I already posted a pic before at https://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=520123#p520123. IIRC, that was from before '18 Leaf was shipping in the US. Would be curious to know if the ratings and part # have changed.rogersleaf said:Coach81,
Wondering if I can get you to look on the brick part of the charge cord for a wattage or amp rating, or model number? Might find it on a label such as UL Labs rating sticker.
Would like to know what Nissan is providing and if it can be adjusted for a lower amperage 240v. supply such as common for a clothes dryer.
Maybe there aren't 40 amp plugs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#/media/File:NEMA_simplified_pins.svg shows a jump from 30 to 50 amps and nothing in between. https://shop.tesla.com/us/en/product/vehicle-accessories/model-s_x_3-gen-2-nema-adapters.html is the same in terms of the gap.rogersleaf said:Does anyone know a real technical reason why Nissan calls for a 50 amp wall outlet to feed a car that pulls a max 27.5 amps? Is the 240v. EVSE cord supplied with the car designed to deliver wattage higher than the current LEAF can accept? Just seems overkill for most situations.
Maybe there aren't 40 amp plugs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_conn ... d_pins.svg shows a jump from 30 to 50 amps and nothing in between. https://shop.tesla.com/us/en/product/ve ... pters.html is the same in terms of the gap.
Thanks for your response, it clarifies a lot and answers my questions. Nissan did provide an EVSE cord capable of charging at the full rate the car is capable of drawing. It would be interesting to know if the evse cord software could be reprogrammed for manually limiting the amp draw similar to EVSEUpgrade. That way, could manually dial back the amp draw to max 24 amp draw using a paperclip for when only have a 30 amp circuit clothes dryer available. Guess that would likely be too risky for the typical consumer...cwerdna said:I'm not coach81, but I already posted a pic before at https://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=520123#p520123. IIRC, that was from before '18 Leaf was shipping in the US. Would be curious to know if the ratings and part # have changed.rogersleaf said:Coach81,
Wondering if I can get you to look on the brick part of the charge cord for a wattage or amp rating, or model number? Might find it on a label such as UL Labs rating sticker.
Would like to know what Nissan is providing and if it can be adjusted for a lower amperage 240v. supply such as common for a clothes dryer.
And, as we said, it's not adjustable.
Maybe there aren't 40 amp plugs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#/media/File:NEMA_simplified_pins.svg shows a jump from 30 to 50 amps and nothing in between. https://shop.tesla.com/us/en/product/vehicle-accessories/model-s_x_3-gen-2-nema-adapters.html is the same in terms of the gap.rogersleaf said:Does anyone know a real technical reason why Nissan calls for a 50 amp wall outlet to feed a car that pulls a max 27.5 amps? Is the 240v. EVSE cord supplied with the car designed to deliver wattage higher than the current LEAF can accept? Just seems overkill for most situations.
Thats a good question. I just checked EVSEupgrade.com and saw no mention of upgrading the new Nissan 30a L2 EVSE to adjustable, only the older EVSEs. You'd hope they would currently be looking into doing just such a thing, that and maybe upgrading it so it could operate on the somewhat common 208v powerrogersleaf said:Nissan did provide an EVSE cord capable of charging at the full rate the car is capable of drawing. It would be interesting to know if the evse cord software could be reprogrammed for manually limiting the amp draw similar to EVSEUpgrade. That way, could manually dial back the amp draw to max 24 amp draw using a paperclip for when only have a 30 amp circuit clothes dryer available. Guess that would likely be too risky for the typical consumer...
rogersleaf said:Coach81,coach81 said:Current charge rate appears to be 25 miles per hour... that good/normal?
As in.. every 60 mins is about 25 miles recharged.
Wondering if I can get you to look on the brick part of the charge cord for a wattage or amp rating, or model number? Might find it on a label such as UL Labs rating sticker.
Would like to know what Nissan is providing and if it can be adjusted for a lower amperage 240v. supply such as common for a clothes dryer.
Thanks.coach81 said:rogersleaf said:Coach81,coach81 said:Current charge rate appears to be 25 miles per hour... that good/normal?
As in.. every 60 mins is about 25 miles recharged.
Wondering if I can get you to look on the brick part of the charge cord for a wattage or amp rating, or model number? Might find it on a label such as UL Labs rating sticker.
Would like to know what Nissan is providing and if it can be adjusted for a lower amperage 240v. supply such as common for a clothes dryer.
Hope this helps. Sorry for upside down pic..
coach81 said:That is correct.. very frustrating... but I charged last night from 1-6 am so hopefully I got cheapest rate.
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