Hello, I park outside and where I live it's always raining, and charging the car with my Level one EVSE is challenging because I always have to put it under the car and throw a tarp overtop. I have started making some mods to allow me to mount the EVSE inside the car behind the 12 V battery. There is a nice space there. I also will unscrew the current J1772 inlet and push this back into the car. In its place I will install a regular NEMA 5 prong which then leads to all the other equipment inside under the hood. This will allow me to just plug in my extension cord directly, without all the hassles of worrying about rain, theft, and my EVSE lying outside in puddles on the ground (kind of defeats the safety theme of the EVSE if you're forced to place it in puddles)
But the car will not move with the EVSE plugged in, correct? Even if there is no power applied? So in order to do this I would have to cut the proximity signal from the J1772 inlet and add a switch. My question is, not being an electrical engineer (I'm a mechanical engineer so I won't do anything stupid), is it a simple matter of cutting this wire and adding a switch which I would flip every time I plug in the extension cord to fool the car into thinking that the EVSE is not plugged in? Would I also have to do this with the pilot signal?
But the car will not move with the EVSE plugged in, correct? Even if there is no power applied? So in order to do this I would have to cut the proximity signal from the J1772 inlet and add a switch. My question is, not being an electrical engineer (I'm a mechanical engineer so I won't do anything stupid), is it a simple matter of cutting this wire and adding a switch which I would flip every time I plug in the extension cord to fool the car into thinking that the EVSE is not plugged in? Would I also have to do this with the pilot signal?