Level 2 charging for 5-7 hours outdoors in the rain

[LeftieBiker]

If you get torrential rain a lot, you can make an accordion-fold side curtain set for the charge port door. I think that has been done before.

[Tsiah]

I always cover the port with plastic when rain is coming. Why not just have an additional level of water protection?

It's not necessary and kind of a waste of time. If the car has a problem it'll stop charging. The EVSE has internal ground fault protection too.

[lorenfb]

I always cover the port with plastic when rain is coming. Why not just have an additional level of water protection?

It's not necessary and kind of a waste of time. If the car has a problem it'll stop charging. The EVSE has internal ground fault protection too.

That's your view! And you rely on Nissan's extensively testing that the car's system always just stops charging with no internal failures, right?

[davewill]

An oldie, but goodie. There used to be one that showed water streaming onto the charging port area while charging, but I couldn't find it.

https://youtu.be/nvp6pc9D2sU

[BuffaloBillsfan]

I always cover the port with plastic when rain is coming. Why not just have an additional level of water protection?

It's not necessary and kind of a waste of time. If the car has a problem it'll stop charging. The EVSE has internal ground fault protection too.

That's your view! And you rely on Nissan's extensively testing that the car's system always just stops charging with no internal failures, right?

It's not a view that "The EVSE has internal ground fault protection too."

It's a fact

[lorenfb]

It's not necessary and kind of a waste of time. If the car has a problem it'll stop charging. The EVSE has internal ground fault protection too.

That's your view! And you rely on Nissan's extensively testing that the car's system always just stops charging with no internal failures, right?

It's not a view that "The EVSE has internal ground fault protection too."

It's a fact

To each his own!

[danrjones]

I charged last night, level 1 though, for about 8 hours and it rained over an inch during that time. All the gear out in the rain, using Nissan's charger.

As a side note, we get about 4" of rain a year, so for us, that's WET.




If it helps, I can rephrase it - I charged last night through a storm that dumped 25% of our annual rain.

[GlennD]

It's not necessary and kind of a waste of time. If the car has a problem it'll stop charging. The EVSE has internal ground fault protection too.

Many of the Chinese EVSE's lack GFCI protection. As long as everything is OK they work fine but they lack the full J1772 specs.

[LeftieBiker]

If it helps, I can rephrase it - I charged last night through a storm that dumped 25% of our annual rain.

That doesn't matter. The 1" was more relevant. When I had the whole unit outside right after getting my 2013, I improvised rain protection with a garbage bag taped over the EVSE brick and the plug connection. Others have used plastic storage boxes, with cutouts for the cords placed so that rain doesn't get in.

[jjeff]

Just because you can doesn't make it correct
Seals wear out, don't always seat correctly 100% of the time, especially as things age. I also wouldn't want to get in my Leaf to go to work, expecting and needing a certain charge level, only to find out my Leaf stopped charging for one way or another, it would be bad. No for me anyway it would be worth the extra few seconds to try and help reduce the possibility of a charging failure, of course you may feel differently and that's fine too, to each his own