How do you charge at home?

[Sam_Julier]

I’m learning a lot from this discussion. I plan to make calculations and get bids this winter for our new/renovated home and shed/garage to be built.

We loose power often: 5-6 times a year due to the trees. Battery storage is appealing. Shown is our new home in Guilford Connecticut.

 

[Astro_Guy]

I’m learning a lot from this discussion. I plan to make calculations and get bids this winter for our new/renovated home and shed/garage to be built.

We loose power often: 5-6 times a year due to the trees. Battery storage is appealing. Shown is our new home in Guilford Connecticut.

The economics of going solar are pretty straightforward. Battery storeage is more complicated and not worth it for many of us.

 

[E365]

@E365 Is that power sharing dynamic, meaning when one battery fills the other two chargers split the 48 amps equally between them?

Exactly. One car gets the full 48A. Add a 2nd and they each get 24A, add a 3rd and each gets 16A. Then as a car finishes it reallocates power to the ones still charging. All live & automatic (wifi and Bluetooth networked). Seems like about half the EVSEs on the market have this capability. I’ve actually never run 3 EVs at the same time, but I’ve done 2 many times and it’s worked perfectly. About to replace a gasoline car with another EV - so hopefully can test 3 soon.

Another good option is something like the Grizzl-e Duo. It does that live between two cords from the same EVSE unit. Limited to 2 cords though, and I wanted 3 cords.

 

[Astro_Guy]

I’m learning a lot from this discussion. I plan to make calculations and get bids this winter for our new/renovated home and shed/garage to be built.

We loose power often: 5-6 times a year due to the trees. Battery storage is appealing. Shown is our new home in Guilford Connecticut.

The economics of going solar are pretty straightforward. Battery storeage is more complicated and not worth it for many of us.

 

[ecotourist]

Most annoying part is the Tesla locks the charger to the vehicle so I need to unlock it in the app if my ex wants to use the charger and it’s currently in my car. The Equinox it’s simple… I can just unplug it as needed.

You must be locking your Tesla. We have ours set up to not lock when its at our home address (as its kept in the garage) and when its not locked, it doesn't lock the charger either.

 

[dogememe]

You must be locking your Tesla. We have ours set up to not lock when its at our home address (as its kept in the garage) and when its not locked, it doesn't lock the charger either.

Well yes, I lock my car... it's in the driveway on a street... the garage is full of junk!

 

[Sam_Julier]

The economics of going solar are pretty straightforward. Battery storeage is more complicated and not worth it for many of us.

We had solar at our previous home so I’m familiar with it. This time I plan to cover every square foot possible on the SE, S and SW sides. The aesthetics do not bother me. “Go big or go home!”

 

[E365]

Nice.

How much for installation ?

Good question. It was DIY (multiple electricians in family. Also permitted and inspected). I’m sure I spent a solid $750 on wire, conduit, breakers, a subpanel, etc. 2 of the 3 EVSE units were “free” from the power company. The 3rd was another ~$500 retail.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Shown is our new home in Guilford Connecticut.

Beautiful property! Who's gonna clean it? Sheesh.

 

[Sam_Julier]

Beautiful property! Who's gonna clean it? Sheesh.

Like all well trained Yankees we leave our shoes in the mudroom. @Astro14 will understand this.

 

[Astro14]

I’m learning a lot from this discussion. I plan to make calculations and get bids this winter for our new/renovated home and shed/garage to be built.

We loose power often: 5-6 times a year due to the trees. Battery storage is appealing. Shown is our new home in Guilford Connecticut.

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The design vernacular, including a dedicated mudroom, is very familiar to me.

 

[Brons2]

I charge my Lightning on L1, and if I ride the train to work that's enough to get me by. If I drive the office, we have L2 chargers in the parking garage to supplement my slow home charging.

My wife uses an 14-50R receptacle that I installed along with a $159 Amazon EVSE, works great for her Mach-E. I have the amperage on the EVSE turned down to 24A because the subpanel is only 80A total, but that's never been an issue in practice and it was fine at 32A, but, I did the load calculations and under some unusual circumstances with basically everything in the house on at once and every plug in use with a 1000W load, it would be possible to exceed 80% of capacity, so I cut the EVSE down to 24A. It's always been enough for our use of the vehicle.