Academiguy
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jjeff said:A 30a breaker will get quite hot pulling 27.5a(what the Leaf EVSE generally pulls) after a short while. If the wiring is 10g which generally a 30a circuit has, it will also get warm but may be harder to feel that. All in all not a good idea to run the OEM Leaf on a 30a circuit, besides being against code.
In my case the 30a circuit that my Nissan EVSE is on comes from a subpanel in my detached garage. The subpanel itself is fed from the main panel in the house, with a 40a breaker on it. Hypothetically, could I pull the 30a breaker out of the subpanel and replace it with a 40a breaker? That would handle the 27-28 amps the EVSE draws without going over the 80% capacity (32a) of the breaker. Would that be a reasonable solution?