+1... If they made the 30 amp cable TOO portable, that constant load may turn off the breakers on a lower rated power line..
I would imagine they explain that in the manual??
They made sure of that. I will likely never use mine. Too bulky. My EVSE upgrade is half the size and just as capablepowersurge wrote:+1... If they made the 30 amp cable TOO portable, that constant load may turn off the breakers on a lower rated power line..
I would imagine they explain that in the manual??
Evoforce wrote:The circuit is over designed to allow headroom and the 30 amp breaker is the built-in fail-safe. Changing the wall permanent outlet was not suggested on my part. If the EVSE is in fact 27 amps, this is a mere 3 amps over. It is not ideal and generally not recommended but it is very close to parameters.EVDRIVER wrote:Evoforce wrote:
A dryer in the US is 30 amp 240 volts with 10 gauge wire (usually). Yes technically, it should be a charge drawing no more than 24 amp continuous, but (I) would still do it at 27 amp. Apparently you have the blessing of the Nissan on this one.
This is an irresponsible stance for the record, the 24A rating is the continuous load rating of the outlet and the dryer outlets are often old and worn. In addition I can assure you that someone will plug the unit into a car that can draw the full 30A as well. Any adapter from a 50A to a 30A is also a complete hazard as someone will plug a 50A load into one of them at some point. Because Nissan marketing has the wrong wording on the site is no reason to imply this is acceptable or safe. There are so many reasons this is a bad idea and so many instances of history of this that it's really a poor position to suggest this. There are so many instances of people creating hazards making screw on type adapters that fail and using them to do things like this and the last thing we need is endorsing that type of behavior. You can do as you choose of course but please don't suggest this is safe or acceptable because there are large numbers of people that will do this and cobble together an adapter that will fail or use an outlet or device that can't safely handle the inappropriate load.
We are going to leave it because it appears... however, the car manufacturer is instructing to do so.
That was me that posted the image (from a screenshot), and as I said in the same post it came from Nissan's "configure/build" page. Thanks for finding the direct link to the image.cwerdna wrote:Apparently not, but I found a place that has such a passage:Evoforce wrote:On page three the first poster it looks like pasted a passage from what I interpreted as an instruction manual.
https://www.nissanusa.com/buildyourniss ... erformance
You don't have the Charge Package with the second, larger charge port?campyleaf wrote:I just brought my 2018 Nissan Leaf S home. When I opened the portable charging cable provided, it standard with level 2 (240) plug and a level 1 (110) adapter which snaps onto the level 2 plug. Quite nifty! This was not optional equipment.
All Leafs still ship with at minimum a level 1 120 volt EVSE. Some Leafs instead ship with a 120/240 volt L1/L2 EVSE (see earlier discussion on which come with it or not).koolkev wrote:Nissan needs to bold the 240v function of the optional charger. That makes a major difference in the charger capability. I miss read it and it looked to me like you had to buy a $2000 option package to get a basic 120v charger!?
Did anyone post a picture of the actual device? In the wild. Not nissan's image.
So, there's nothing in the owner's manual recommending the use of a 14-30R...Use only a 220-240 volt, 50 amp, dedicated outlet installed by a qualified electrician
The NISSAN Genuine L1 &L2 EVSE draws 30 amps continuously while charging the Li-ion battery with AC 220–240 volt outlet. Do not plug in to any electrical circuit unless it is inspected by a qualified electrician to confirm that the electrical circuit can accept a 30 amp draw