cdherman
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I am going to need to install a new sub panel to acomodate the 60A Clipper Creek refurbished charger that I just purchased off eBay. I have been using the coverted Nissan EVSE, but the price was right for the Clipper Creek and this way, I can start taking my portable unit with me at all times. And I have future proofing to certain extent. I suspect many EVSE's will eventually charge at 60A or higher.. That's about 12kw an hour, or roughly 30 plus miles of range, hypothetically. May be more if future EVs are more efficient...
The new subpanel will give me the option of adding any additional circuits that I desire. The ClipperCreek EVSA will live in the middle of the rear wall of the 2 car garage so that either bay can charge.
But a 220V outlet outside had 2 benefits I am thinking. One is that I myself sometimes get entangled in garage projects, like building cabinets or woodworking (have shop to the rear of garage), and historically, I've parked cars outside for a few days or weeks when that happens. Cannot do that anymore with an EV in my life.
Second benefit would be sharing via Plugshare. I actually may still be long certain months of the year with my grid tie PV, and I'm community minded enough to share a few $1 of electrons to a traveler, regardless....
So my plan is to put a downward facing L6-20 220v plug relatively high on the exterior wall. I may put it all the way up under the eve, which makes wiring a breeze, as I have good attic access. Only problem with the "very high" solution is that I can reach it (I'm 6'5") but a wayward traveler would not. I can leave a stool!
And I think I would put a 110v plug on the wall too, for the occassional use by someone with an uncoverted EVSE (painful). I *think* I can just use one leg of the 20A 220V wire for the 110V. I understand completely that if I put a 110V and a 220V plug in the same circuit, I cannot use them both at the same time. But that would be a rare/never event.
I figure that putting the plugs up high, given my relative wide eves, makes the rain and snow risk remote and the EVSE should be OK hanging, with its locking plug. Don't know how it would work for a 110V user....
An ideas why this is a bad idea? Refinements to suggest? I don't have a lot of code restrictions -- un-incorporated location. But I try not to do stupid things either....
(Later edited to correct my poor memory of L6-20 versus L6 30)
The new subpanel will give me the option of adding any additional circuits that I desire. The ClipperCreek EVSA will live in the middle of the rear wall of the 2 car garage so that either bay can charge.
But a 220V outlet outside had 2 benefits I am thinking. One is that I myself sometimes get entangled in garage projects, like building cabinets or woodworking (have shop to the rear of garage), and historically, I've parked cars outside for a few days or weeks when that happens. Cannot do that anymore with an EV in my life.
Second benefit would be sharing via Plugshare. I actually may still be long certain months of the year with my grid tie PV, and I'm community minded enough to share a few $1 of electrons to a traveler, regardless....
So my plan is to put a downward facing L6-20 220v plug relatively high on the exterior wall. I may put it all the way up under the eve, which makes wiring a breeze, as I have good attic access. Only problem with the "very high" solution is that I can reach it (I'm 6'5") but a wayward traveler would not. I can leave a stool!
And I think I would put a 110v plug on the wall too, for the occassional use by someone with an uncoverted EVSE (painful). I *think* I can just use one leg of the 20A 220V wire for the 110V. I understand completely that if I put a 110V and a 220V plug in the same circuit, I cannot use them both at the same time. But that would be a rare/never event.
I figure that putting the plugs up high, given my relative wide eves, makes the rain and snow risk remote and the EVSE should be OK hanging, with its locking plug. Don't know how it would work for a 110V user....
An ideas why this is a bad idea? Refinements to suggest? I don't have a lot of code restrictions -- un-incorporated location. But I try not to do stupid things either....
(Later edited to correct my poor memory of L6-20 versus L6 30)