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Hello,
I have had a Nissan Leaf S 2015 for a month. The car originally comes from the USA, so it has Type 1 charging socket and the EVSE has a standard USA plug so it has always been used by previous owners with a plug adaptor to fit EU sockets. The car battery is of the 24 kWh type, and the charger inside the car is 6.6 kW.
I have noticed that the plug adaptor gets very hot particularly at the metal "pins" when I charge the car. I have always charged it from about 20% to 80-90% so typically it stays plugged into the wall socket for 4-5 hours. Yesterday for the first time, when I went to unplug it the EVSE signalled the "too high temperature" condition by flashing the READY and FAULT leds.
The yard wall socket was inspected (but perhaps not thoroughly so) by an electrician, who told me that it should be OK, and it has a 16A capacity. While reading the Leaf manual for double-checking the EVSE leds fault code, I also noticed that it says to use only sockets connected to a circuit breaker, while our socket is connected only to a 16A fuse.
My first thought is that maybe I should invest in a new EVSE that has the correct plug and no plug adapter needed. But is there such thing as a Nissan Leaf EVSE with EU plug on the wall side and Type 1 "gun" on the car side?
Alternatively, since the fault is unlikely to be the EVSE itself but just the plug, do you think it's possible to have the EVSE modified by a specialist so that only the plug is replaced (saving a lot of money)?
Apart from the EVSE/plug, I am thinking about having the wall socket replaced with a new one that is more robust and heavy-duty, just in case the problem is in there. Do you think that also a circuit-breaker is a must-have?
Please keep in mind that I know nothing about practical electricity, so I may well say very dumb things... I am just trying to figure out which of these things are absolutely necessary to protect ourselves from electrical or fire accidents, and which are just extra precautions but not absolutely necessary, so that I can prioritize these possible investments instead of doing them all at once (considering they won't be cheap).
Thank you!
I have had a Nissan Leaf S 2015 for a month. The car originally comes from the USA, so it has Type 1 charging socket and the EVSE has a standard USA plug so it has always been used by previous owners with a plug adaptor to fit EU sockets. The car battery is of the 24 kWh type, and the charger inside the car is 6.6 kW.
I have noticed that the plug adaptor gets very hot particularly at the metal "pins" when I charge the car. I have always charged it from about 20% to 80-90% so typically it stays plugged into the wall socket for 4-5 hours. Yesterday for the first time, when I went to unplug it the EVSE signalled the "too high temperature" condition by flashing the READY and FAULT leds.
The yard wall socket was inspected (but perhaps not thoroughly so) by an electrician, who told me that it should be OK, and it has a 16A capacity. While reading the Leaf manual for double-checking the EVSE leds fault code, I also noticed that it says to use only sockets connected to a circuit breaker, while our socket is connected only to a 16A fuse.
My first thought is that maybe I should invest in a new EVSE that has the correct plug and no plug adapter needed. But is there such thing as a Nissan Leaf EVSE with EU plug on the wall side and Type 1 "gun" on the car side?
Alternatively, since the fault is unlikely to be the EVSE itself but just the plug, do you think it's possible to have the EVSE modified by a specialist so that only the plug is replaced (saving a lot of money)?
Apart from the EVSE/plug, I am thinking about having the wall socket replaced with a new one that is more robust and heavy-duty, just in case the problem is in there. Do you think that also a circuit-breaker is a must-have?
Please keep in mind that I know nothing about practical electricity, so I may well say very dumb things... I am just trying to figure out which of these things are absolutely necessary to protect ourselves from electrical or fire accidents, and which are just extra precautions but not absolutely necessary, so that I can prioritize these possible investments instead of doing them all at once (considering they won't be cheap).
Thank you!