DasCC said:
JoulesThief said:
While waiting for the city to inspect my Nema 14-50 outlet install in the garage, I had to make a public charger run to recharge the e-Golf on Sunday, so a trip to a Whole Foods was in order to accomplish this. While there, an exact copy, white with tan interior 2015 e-Golf SEL clone pulled up next to the other charge handle, and plugged in while going grocery shopping.
It's taken almost a month for this to happen... but there are a few of these e-Golfs running around, and showing up, slowly but surely VW is selling them. Talked to the owner, they leased it in March and have I thought she said 19000 miles on it already, by November 1st? Seems crazy, like maybe why didn't they buy a TDI instead?
Is that a city specific thing? I haven't had my Nema 6-50 inspected... idk the difference between that and a 14-50 though.
The only cars I ever see charging are Leafs.
All I can say is this... NB romex in 8 gauge can get hot, it's another matter if you run conduit and individual 8 gauge wires. Personally, if it were me, I'd run 6 gauge, pulled through conduit, to perhaps put heat issues and fires at bay, or at the circuit breaker, instead of inside my walls. I want the full 244V at the 14-50 Nema outlet, no losses or voltage drop on a large continuous high amp heavy consumer like an EVSE... Heat being generated by wire is lost efficiency, along with voltage droppage. Also, no sharp bends in doing the wiring, either.
A 6-50 is two 120 legs, and a ground wire, there is no neutral wire, no potential for 120V. A 14-50 Nema is also known as an RV outlet, is 4 wire, 120 legs, a neutral ( to make 120) and a ground wire. 50 amp potential per line.
With a 14-50 plug on your EVSE charger box, you can always pay a bit of money and recharge at almost any RV park, if you get in a pinch, which is quite handy if you have the 7.2KWH deluxe charger on board instead of the dirt cheap, slow as molasses 3.6kwh charger. Rather a nice option if you are out in the sticks and need a charge, and find yourself near an RV park., It gives you options.
240V residential at 30 amps and 7.2kw charger is the fastest level 2 charge rate that I have observed, so far, at the full 7.2Kw, versus 6.0 or 6.3KW that you get with 30 amps at 208V commercial charger outlets. That 240V is worth about 15 to 20% in savings of time over 208V, important if you might be doing a lot of miles and a couple of level 2 charges in a day, level 3 is hard to find in the SAE CCM handles here in So Cal, or in remote areas. Remote areas are where you can find the RV parks to charge at, instead.
