taztaz
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Hello and greetings from Sweden!
First of all, I hope my English is enough to make my point understood...
A friend of mine owns 2 Nissan Leaf cars, A 2011 and a 2013 model. He has modified the standard chargers to the cars by cutting the power plugs of the chargers and made a persistant electrical installation with them, like a home charging station. Now to the problem, for the 2011 charger there was no problems. After cutting the plug the cable consisted of 3 wires, earth(ground), phase and a zero cable as we call it in Sweden. That charger is installed and working fine! BUT.. When the guy bought his second Leaf, the charger for the 2013 model is a little bit different. The cable to the powerplug contains 5 wires. Connecting the 3 normal wires (ground, phase and zero) does not make the charger work. All the LED´s on the charger are flashing... The 2 other wires were connected to a small component in the powerplug looking like a "NTC-resistor" built in to prevent overheating in case of bad outlets or something. The charger would probably stop the charging if the powerplug become to hot. Now the NTC-resistor got damaged in the dismantle process. So my question is.. Do anyone of you know what kind of NTC resistor it is? I guess it can be replaced by a normal resistor to simulate normal temp? But then I need to know what value that resistor should have..
Does anyone have any idea about this? Or know where I can find this information?
First of all, I hope my English is enough to make my point understood...
A friend of mine owns 2 Nissan Leaf cars, A 2011 and a 2013 model. He has modified the standard chargers to the cars by cutting the power plugs of the chargers and made a persistant electrical installation with them, like a home charging station. Now to the problem, for the 2011 charger there was no problems. After cutting the plug the cable consisted of 3 wires, earth(ground), phase and a zero cable as we call it in Sweden. That charger is installed and working fine! BUT.. When the guy bought his second Leaf, the charger for the 2013 model is a little bit different. The cable to the powerplug contains 5 wires. Connecting the 3 normal wires (ground, phase and zero) does not make the charger work. All the LED´s on the charger are flashing... The 2 other wires were connected to a small component in the powerplug looking like a "NTC-resistor" built in to prevent overheating in case of bad outlets or something. The charger would probably stop the charging if the powerplug become to hot. Now the NTC-resistor got damaged in the dismantle process. So my question is.. Do anyone of you know what kind of NTC resistor it is? I guess it can be replaced by a normal resistor to simulate normal temp? But then I need to know what value that resistor should have..
Does anyone have any idea about this? Or know where I can find this information?