Another good option is the Bryant, it's made by Hubble with a different branding, and often less expensive on Amazon. It seems like the Hubbells are expensive again, I paid $53 for mine, but it's showing $94 now on the jungle river site. Both are Made in USA.
L2 charging at home is just like heating up an oven or a dryer, except the load is a lot longer in duration, which can tax cheap receptacles not designed to be used with that load/draw profile. That's why they make EV-specific ones.
The problem I have with Leviton is that they were slow to respond in this space and sold thousands of the cheap ones that are for plugging in household stoves, not EVs. Many later melted. They could have chosen to head off this situation by recalling them and labeling them for "not for use in EV charging" but took no action other than to eventually bring out an EV plug of their own.
Thanks Overkill. Do you see or know of any issue with the Leviton that many are using? Asking for a friend (my neighbors!).
Leviton has the relationships with the retail stores and the electrical supply houses.
A friend does marine electrical work in the Santa Cruz Harbor. He told me about the Hubbell years ago when he replaced the Home Depot NEMA 14-50 with the hard wired Tesla Wall Charger. I was 100% ignorant of the proper requirements at the time.
I agree, they should be fine, I just don't like the way the situation was handled by the company.
You're probably right, but I would fault the installer. There's a reason I pay people for stuff above my pay grade. The guy who originally installed our NEMA plug was young but was in the electrical union.
@JeffKeryk There will probably come a time when you can bid on the Hubble Space Telescope but you will be responsible for transportation. Without something like the sapce shuttle it will be challenging to bring it home.
Exactly. High, sustained, load. I am genuinely not a fan of having plugs in that circuit.
