Ingineer wrote: "Tony's meltdown was due to a bad crimp in the Blink (Rema) handle." -- Again, you never examined his handle -- this is speculation. You may be right about the primary cause of the Rav4 incident (a truly known secondary cause is Rav4's lack of inlet thermal protection), but why do you state so authoritatively that you know the root cause, and then go on to confidently predict a widespread crimping problem in Blinks when you write: "I'm sure when people start plugging the 2013 Leafs into Blinks we'll see a lot more of this.". Have you managed to extract (currently confidential?) info from Nissan that their currently planned 2013 Leaf implementation has no inlet thermal protection? If so did you convey your understandable serious concerns about Blink EVSEs to your source so that Nissan might consider the necessity to head off (by adding thermal protection to the 2013 production) a scenario which could be at the very least embarrassing to the EV industry and at the worst contribute to seriously damaging to its reputation and subsequent progress?
I'm guessing that if 1) a number of EVSEs soon overheat at 30a and 2) in fact the 2013 Leaf has some kind of inlet thermal protection, the impact should be much less severe and perhaps not very evident at all -- like somewhat increased charging times if Nissan used thermal protection similar to your suggested fix to the Rav4 for owners like TonyWilliams.
I'm guessing that if 1) a number of EVSEs soon overheat at 30a and 2) in fact the 2013 Leaf has some kind of inlet thermal protection, the impact should be much less severe and perhaps not very evident at all -- like somewhat increased charging times if Nissan used thermal protection similar to your suggested fix to the Rav4 for owners like TonyWilliams.