I have a leaf 2.0 on order and should be expecting delivery Feb/March, I'm currently looking into EVSE's a little more closely now...
My garage currently has a NEMA 6-30 plug for an electric heater that I rarely use and was thinking about using that for charging the Leaf... At first, I thought just change the plug upgrade the breaker and I'm good to go... But the more I read up on this, the more I see people mentioning using 8 gauge or thicker wire... which, I don't think I have... it's more likely it being a 10 gauge wire...
Charge point has an EVSE with a 16A draw that apparently uses the same double pole 20amp breaker that the NEMA 6-30 uses... My question is... how much longer would a full charge using a 16A EVSE over a 32A EVSE? Should I just bite the bullet splurge the extra cost to run another wire for a 32A EVSE?
My current thought process is (if at all logical),... Get a 16A EVSE use it for now (if the charge rate isn't too slow),... in time, if we get a PHEV for my wife/long commuting vehicle, run a new wire and use the 15-50 plug for the Nissan portable EVSE and have the PHEV use the 16A EVSE.
Then again,... I'm not sure how much longer we'll be living at this house...
Thoughts?
My garage currently has a NEMA 6-30 plug for an electric heater that I rarely use and was thinking about using that for charging the Leaf... At first, I thought just change the plug upgrade the breaker and I'm good to go... But the more I read up on this, the more I see people mentioning using 8 gauge or thicker wire... which, I don't think I have... it's more likely it being a 10 gauge wire...
Charge point has an EVSE with a 16A draw that apparently uses the same double pole 20amp breaker that the NEMA 6-30 uses... My question is... how much longer would a full charge using a 16A EVSE over a 32A EVSE? Should I just bite the bullet splurge the extra cost to run another wire for a 32A EVSE?
My current thought process is (if at all logical),... Get a 16A EVSE use it for now (if the charge rate isn't too slow),... in time, if we get a PHEV for my wife/long commuting vehicle, run a new wire and use the 15-50 plug for the Nissan portable EVSE and have the PHEV use the 16A EVSE.
Then again,... I'm not sure how much longer we'll be living at this house...
Thoughts?