Tip. Have a sub-panel installed in your garage and install at 14-50 outlet with a 40 amp breaker. If you use your Tesla mobile connector, it will pull 32 amps continuous which is more than enough imo. You can sell the wall connector if you like. Also great way to make sure that you don’t overload your electrical system is use scheduled charging. Car will only charger between say midnight and 6am. Also SR plus is limited to 32 amps anyways so can’t really take advantage of the wall connector. Have one car plugged into regular 110 and use the 32 amps for the one which needs most. Look into this. I say call few electricians about adding sun panel in garage. Cost can depends on how far your breaker box is from garage.PS I’m no electrician but just a recommendation
Let me know if you have any questions. Can recommend certain 14-50 receptacles for longevity. Another thought, since you already paid for the installation for wall connector, ask your electrician if you can still add a sub panel and put the wall connector to a 40 amp breaker then of course limit it down to 16 amps on your car screen or just keep pulling 32 over night.
@@AbhijotSolanki Why do you need a sub panel in the garage? What does that give you? Looks like hes routed a thicc wire up from his basement panel through the wall into the garage.
Thanks for sharing. Seems like you did things right and consulted an actual electrician. I have noticed a lot of people on the tesla group have 100amp panel and install 40, 50 and even 60 amp service for their EV charging. That’s keeping in mind that you charge at night when a/c isn’t pumping and most electrics are off. However, then you wouldn’t be able to charge at home during the day. If you ever get 200amp service, keep in mind you will have to upgrade the wires to 6AWG, not only the breaker.
I agree that 200 (or 400 amp for a large house) service is best; however for someone who cannot or does not want to upgrade their service, there are options like EV Management systems that will interrupt charging when the total load exceeds the capacity of the service. Also, if you need to charge during the day you can easily dial the charging rate back to as low as 5 amps (in increments of 1 amp) from the touch screen in the car or on the tesla app. Some electric meters show in real time the kW being drawn which could also help to determine at what rate to charge, just divide the kW by 240 volts to get the amps.
I hope people pay attention to your advice of checking out your homes electrical panel before moving forward with an upgraded charger or really any item that you plan on using more electrical at your house. I work in HVAC and can not tell you the number of times we need to upgrade the electrical panel to have the new system installed to code. If you do not do this it can cause major issues including major safety problems. Really glad you included that last part, very important.
I ordered the Tesla charger and having an electrician come out to install a new 200 amp breaker, here in IL it’s about $5k not including the charger, that was $500, so overall $5,500. It’s steep, but it will be future proof I guess. Between the down on the car payment and this, we dropped $10k. Kind of nuts lol
I got it done for 1700 including the Tesla wall charger and all materials and labor. Including for a 220 volt plug for my garage and wall charger at the office. Electricians often rip you iff
Cost me about 1600NZD here in New Zealand (about 1000USD) for supply and install of a wall connector. 5k is crazy, but maybe your installation was more complex?
I had my box upgraded to 200 amps back in 2019. Cost was $7,000 including the Tesla wall charger installation. Currently my Model Y gets about 44+ miles of range/per hr. And, my Model S gets about 37+ I charge during non peak hrs and sometimes during the day when really needed. My model S is unlimited FREE charging when using SUPERCHARGERS. So unless I'm far away from home- I don't sweat charging at all. With 50miles or less, I alternate from home -to-superchargers in my area if I seriously need it. With the 200amp upgrade, One doesn’t have to worry about major appliances running, with HVAC being on and risking tripping any circuit breakers. It all runs smoothly. Home is 3500 sq ft. Goodluck with your cars
Just got done installing mine. Spent about $150 on the breakers, conduit, and wire. Never seen a 100 amps service before. Even the smallest house where I live is 200 amps.
if you dryer connector is reachable, it could be a 32amp connector. You may need to order is the type of nema plug from tesla and you can use the mobile connector to charge faster - like almost 30km+ / hour. If you already have a NEMA 14/50 connector for your dryer, you may be able to use the extra connector already provided with the tesla mobile charger.
The negative about using the dryer charger is that those are mostly made of plastic and are considered Residential plugs and the Tesla Charger will / should required a commerical plug to lessen the event of over heating and catching fire. DO NOT USE your house dryer connection.
I installed my own Tesla Model 3 NEMA 14-30 outlet for less than $100 here in the southern US. It provides 22 miles per hour for my EV, which is more than enough. I don't see the value in spending over $1000 just to install the wall connector. There's no need to upgrade the panel either; you can easily set it up in the Tesla app to only charge the vehicle late at night to avoid exceeding your, for example, 125-amp capacity. The logic is simple: I have the same NEMA 14-30 for the gas dryer, which I don't use at night, so I won't have to worry about any issues with charging the vehicle overnight.
Your house does not continuously use 100 amps, not even close. Might peak to close to 80 amps when absolutely everything is on, depending if you have air conditioning, electric heat, electric hot water, electric cooking, electric clothes dryer, etc., but these are not continuous loads. Therefore, you might be able to install a 60 amp, but more likely it would be safer to go with a 50 or 40 amp 240 volt breaker if you install an EV management device which will automatically monitor the total power your house is consuming and disconnect the EV when needed to keep the load within the capability of your electric service. There are several brands available, but a Canadian company makes one called dcc electric. BTW, from the video it looks like a pretty large size wire was installed. If so you would not need to upgrade the wire, just the breaker, and of course install the EV load management equipment. Since the wire is in conduit you could use a 60 amp breaker if the wire is #6 or a 40 or 50 amp breaker if the wire is #8, assuming the wire is THW, THWN, THHN, etc., and assuming Canada's wire ampacity requirements are the same as those in the US. Good luck!
Thanks for the information but our house had to have EV management system to have anything above 20AMPS. I had that in plan once we get more Tesla's delivered, that is why the wire was thicker to be compatible with a 60AMP breaker. Now we have 3 wall connectors power sharing with EV management system and 60AMP breaker.
@@POGAuto That's great. I take it that you now have EV Management system installed? Curious if the EV management system lets you know how often it is actually turning off your EV charging, and if so how often it actually activates?
Do you know what size wire they used from the breaker box to the Wall connector? If they didn't use #6 or thicker gage you still won't be able to safely use 48amp charging with the wall connector. (so obvious answer would be to re-run that bit of wire with the right stuff but it's another expense you may not have considered)
You can have two level 2 wall connectors and they will load balance by communicating with each other so neither goes over the limit you set (in your case 20 amps).
Look into a black box. It is a automatic load management system. So you can have a 60amp breaker installed as it would count that 60amp breaker as 0% load not 100%
Hi, thanks for sharing this video. Maybe i've already read some comments below about that, but i'm still in a doubt. Is it possible, with the Gen 3, to use any kind of dynamic load balance, or integration with solar systems to use production excess for example?
Thanks for sharing your experience, hopefully it will help people plan correctly before buying an EV. I'm currently upgrading my garage and I added a 100A subpanel in the new section (derived from the main 200A panel), mostly to support one or two EVs in the future.
Your underground wire from the transformer to your meter box is the same for 100 and 200 amp. Couple things though, you are in Canada so might be different. An old subdivision might have a old smaller wire in the ground. You look like you live in a newer subdivision. The power company /utility company is not going to run a smaller triplex to your home and a larger triplex to your neighbor if they have a 200 amp service. Union electrician here and worked in the housing market for over 25 years in Chicagoland. I can't count the number of meter boxes if have wired and there was no difference in triplex size, at least here. The wire from your meter into your house and panel would all have to be changed to 200 amp.
I saw another video where the Tesla owner recommended the wall charger (over the mobile charger) for outside use as it's designed to be weather resistant.
I am surprised you have a 100amp service I am just outside Calgary and have 200amp service. My last place was just a townhome condo and it also had 200 amp service and was about 18 years old. You can do load sharing if you have two Tesla wall chargers as well so that they can use the same breaker and the two will talk to each other and limit output so that it only uses the maximum of the breaker.
What a crazy waste of money for a glossy EVSE. Should have just bought another mobile connector and added a nema 1450 outlet. I did all mine on a crusty 30 year old Challenger panel with a 50 amp breaker for $350. Mobile connector was $250. My car charges at 32 amps. Or 50-80% in 3 hours.
Thank you so much for your video but we don’t use any kind of an adapter or anything, we bought the the exact same Tesla wall charger, we had a Electrician come and made 220v connection straight to our panel, we’ve used it for about 3 months with no problems but recently it’s been tripping the breaker about 30 minutes into charging our vehicle, we have a Tesla model 3, what could be causing the circuit tripping. Thanks
I am not an electrician but just a suggestion. Try connecting to the wall connectors wifi and then making sure it has the proper AMP breaker set up. If you have a 30AMP breaker in the panel then set it to 30AMP mine is a 60AMP now and it is set to 60AMP which gives the car 48AMP of charging speed
You should have wired it for 60amps anyway with the appropriate hardware and breaker instead of limiting yourself to 20amps. In a crunch, you could monitor electricity usage and devote up to 60amps of your available 100amps to your EVs (like at night when you're all sleeping and pretty much electricity use is very low). Plus, you could always control the charging amps within each EV so that you never draw more than what is available to stay within a safety limit during the busy times.
Just bought a Tesla and I don’t have enough room in my outside box for a 220 outlet I need to upgrade my box. So now I’m $ucked with a 2021 Tesla that I need to Charge with a regular 110 outlet. I did a lot of research on the best electric car for me but not on my house. Lol
Dude - thought it’s supposed to be “how to use a Tesla Wall Connector” - not what are the requirements to install the wall connector. Took us 2 hours run wires / install. How to use a Wall Connector app once everything install
So let’s say you parked it overnight at 65% battery and did not plug in the car to charge in the morning you will not be at 65% this could be worst on colder days. So I will be doing videos on this rolling when the extreme cold happens
You use the mobile charger right? And also after installing your nema 15-30, do you get your charge to 80% for the recommendation and not worry about it after?
Hey POGAuto, I am also from Alberta as well. Instead of the Wall Charger, Would you recommend to get the 240V wall plug and just use the Mobile Charger that way instead of the Wall Charger? I do have the same issue as you as I have a 100Amp Breaker Box
I'd get a second opinion for a different electrician and also consult your power company. the power company WANTS you to drive EVs badly and will make it work one way or another.
Unfortunately the electricians were right but there is a different way and now there are 3 wall connectors installed on a 60amp breaker on a power sharing mode
@@Pimpernicholas Those sources also may not be as effective or may pose more risks in the long run. As you know, there are many factors that require consideration. Some we know and some we do not know.
@@hadessahf3549Why not start with what we know. I think the ones we know are well-known. Few people commit suicide using wind, solar, hydro, nuclear compared to internal combustion engines. I would say that these health-risk facts are well-known. and there are others that are as obvious.
Yes and all that electric is coming from coal and gas fired power plants. Nice your helping the environment with your electric car. When everyone on the block starts charging your street will blow up and you will be using candles to read at night.
Common anti-EV comment. Maybe from coal or gas. Maybe from wind, solar, hydro too. But much more efficient than a gas car, get about 3 miles per kWh of electricity, which works out to the equivalent of over 100 miles per gallon of actual energy used. Back in the 50's very few people had air conditioning. Now almost everyone does. This did not overload the grid, at least in states not run by fools. As EVs slowly are added the grid will be improved, just as it was to allow for air conditioning. Also, if EVs are charged overnight, this will make the grid more efficient because it will be more fully utilized because the grid is underutilized overnight.
@@utkyle12 1. Because I install them for a living and probably know more about it than you. 2. Because what I'm saying is the truth. 3. Because this is a place where people exchange different intellectual points of view. Why not respond to my actual comment and tell me how I'm wrong? Any ideas of your own?
@@ericjorgensen4826 as an electrical contractor I can tell you you are wrong if everyone on your street has an electric car charging at night the grid will never handle it. It was not designed for that kind of load. You sound like an intelligent person I just don't think you understand the sizing of a residential grid and what is capable of handling.
@@Eec2023How about a little intellectual discourse? I agree with you "When everyone on the block starts charging your street will blow up . . ." IF that happens now, or even soon. But did you read what I wrote? "As EVs slowly are added the grid will be improved, just as it was to allow for air conditioning." Right now EVs are a very small percentage of all vehicles. And it will not go to "everyone on the block charging" quickly. It will be a gradual transition. If everyone installed central air-conditioning in 1955 the same thing would have happened to the grid...it would have suddenly been severely overloaded, from generation to transmission to distribution to individual services. Back in that time, a typical new middle class house had an electrical service with 4 to 6 screw in fuses and a 240 volt service with two 60 amp cartridge style main fuses, with maybe a second 40 amp 240 volt pull-out style fuse holder for an electric range. Older houses often had less: back in the 1960's my grandmother's house that was built in the 1930's still had a 30 amp 120 volt two wire service with knob and tube wiring. Almost all such electrical systems have been since upgraded. And charging overnight (or other off peak times) will help the situation for those that can do that, which is most people. It will more fully utilize the grid, which is underutilized during the 12AM to 6AM time. BTW, not an electrician, but a EE here. Many if not most houses with 150 or 200 amp service can handle an additional 240 volt 24 to 48 amp load on their service conductors and electrical panel. As EVs are added, over the years, the many of the distribution transformers will need to be upgraded, as will the entire electrical grid to get to the point where EVs are the predominate vehicle. Also, it is possible to use load management hardware that can make even a 100 amp service work satisfactorily for EV charging, depending on the type of loads currently being served. There are several EV management systems available that install CTs on the service conductors that allow the system to monitor the total current being drawn, and if it goes above 80% of the rating of the electrical service will shut down the EV charging circuit until the load returns to an acceptable level. The house I grew up in in the 1960's used to have a 37-1/2 kVa transformer that fed it and 5 other houses. Now this transformer has been changed out to a 100 kVa transformer for these same 6 houses. In my case, I personally have two Tesla EVs which have no problem simultaneously charging at 48 amps (240 volts, 11.5 kW each). Each EV circuit is attached to one of my 200 amp panels with a 60 amp breaker, with #6 AWG THWN CU wire in conduit to the Tesla Wall Connector. The panels are fed from my 320/400 amp service. Florida Power and Light recently proactively upgraded the pad mount transformer that feeds my house, along with two others, from 50 kVa to a 75 kVa transformer. My underground service is fed with parallel runs of 4/0 AL, and the 200 amp panels are each fed with 3/0 CU from the main disconnect.
Tip. Have a sub-panel installed in your garage and install at 14-50 outlet with a 40 amp breaker. If you use your Tesla mobile connector, it will pull 32 amps continuous which is more than enough imo. You can sell the wall connector if you like. Also great way to make sure that you don’t overload your electrical system is use scheduled charging. Car will only charger between say midnight and 6am. Also SR plus is limited to 32 amps anyways so can’t really take advantage of the wall connector. Have one car plugged into regular 110 and use the 32 amps for the one which needs most. Look into this. I say call few electricians about adding sun panel in garage. Cost can depends on how far your breaker box is from garage.PS I’m no electrician but just a recommendation
Let me know if you have any questions. Can recommend certain 14-50 receptacles for longevity. Another thought, since you already paid for the installation for wall connector, ask your electrician if you can still add a sub panel and put the wall connector to a 40 amp breaker then of course limit it down to 16 amps on your car screen or just keep pulling 32 over night.
@@AbhijotSolanki Why do you need a sub panel in the garage? What does that give you? Looks like hes routed a thicc wire up from his basement panel through the wall into the garage.
I've had my home EV charger on a 20A 240V breaker for over 11 years. Never had a problem with overnight charging...
Thanks for sharing. Seems like you did things right and consulted an actual electrician. I have noticed a lot of people on the tesla group have 100amp panel and install 40, 50 and even 60 amp service for their EV charging. That’s keeping in mind that you charge at night when a/c isn’t pumping and most electrics are off. However, then you wouldn’t be able to charge at home during the day. If you ever get 200amp service, keep in mind you will have to upgrade the wires to 6AWG, not only the breaker.
I agree that 200 (or 400 amp for a large house) service is best; however for someone who cannot or does not want to upgrade their service, there are options like EV Management systems that will interrupt charging when the total load exceeds the capacity of the service. Also, if you need to charge during the day you can easily dial the charging rate back to as low as 5 amps (in increments of 1 amp) from the touch screen in the car or on the tesla app. Some electric meters show in real time the kW being drawn which could also help to determine at what rate to charge, just divide the kW by 240 volts to get the amps.
I hope people pay attention to your advice of checking out your homes electrical panel before moving forward with an upgraded charger or really any item that you plan on using more electrical at your house. I work in HVAC and can not tell you the number of times we need to upgrade the electrical panel to have the new system installed to code. If you do not do this it can cause major issues including major safety problems. Really glad you included that last part, very important.
I ordered the Tesla charger and having an electrician come out to install a new 200 amp breaker, here in IL it’s about $5k not including the charger, that was $500, so overall $5,500. It’s steep, but it will be future proof I guess. Between the down on the car payment and this, we dropped $10k. Kind of nuts lol
About 4-5k in Ontario, Canada
I got it done for 1700 including the Tesla wall charger and all materials and labor. Including for a 220 volt plug for my garage and wall charger at the office.
Electricians often rip you iff
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Cost me about 1600NZD here in New Zealand (about 1000USD) for supply and install of a wall connector. 5k is crazy, but maybe your installation was more complex?
How does that work if I have an apartment?
I had my box upgraded to 200 amps back in 2019. Cost was $7,000 including the Tesla wall charger installation. Currently my Model Y gets about 44+ miles of range/per hr. And, my Model S gets about 37+ I charge during non peak hrs and sometimes during the day when really needed. My model S is unlimited FREE charging when using SUPERCHARGERS. So unless I'm far away from home- I don't sweat charging at all. With 50miles or less, I alternate from home -to-superchargers in my area if I seriously need it. With the 200amp upgrade, One doesn’t have to worry about major appliances running, with HVAC being on and risking tripping any circuit breakers. It all runs smoothly. Home is 3500 sq ft. Goodluck with your cars
What was ur subpanels amps before the upgrade
Agree with the level 1 and overnight charging. I usually need to replenish 20-25% battery like 4 days a week.
My level 1 charger is getting 7 miles an hour at 15 amps. I drive 20 miles a day round trip for work so it’s perfect for me.
Just got done installing mine. Spent about $150 on the breakers, conduit, and wire. Never seen a 100 amps service before. Even the smallest house where I live is 200 amps.
if you dryer connector is reachable, it could be a 32amp connector. You may need to order is the type of nema plug from tesla and you can use the mobile connector to charge faster - like almost 30km+ / hour. If you already have a NEMA 14/50 connector for your dryer, you may be able to use the extra connector already provided with the tesla mobile charger.
The negative about using the dryer charger is that those are mostly made of plastic and are considered Residential plugs and the Tesla Charger will / should required a commerical plug to lessen the event of over heating and catching fire. DO NOT USE your house dryer connection.
I installed my own Tesla Model 3 NEMA 14-30 outlet for less than $100 here in the southern US. It provides 22 miles per hour for my EV, which is more than enough. I don't see the value in spending over $1000 just to install the wall connector. There's no need to upgrade the panel either; you can easily set it up in the Tesla app to only charge the vehicle late at night to avoid exceeding your, for example, 125-amp capacity. The logic is simple: I have the same NEMA 14-30 for the gas dryer, which I don't use at night, so I won't have to worry about any issues with charging the vehicle overnight.
Your house does not continuously use 100 amps, not even close. Might peak to close to 80 amps when absolutely everything is on, depending if you have air conditioning, electric heat, electric hot water, electric cooking, electric clothes dryer, etc., but these are not continuous loads. Therefore, you might be able to install a 60 amp, but more likely it would be safer to go with a 50 or 40 amp 240 volt breaker if you install an EV management device which will automatically monitor the total power your house is consuming and disconnect the EV when needed to keep the load within the capability of your electric service. There are several brands available, but a Canadian company makes one called dcc electric.
BTW, from the video it looks like a pretty large size wire was installed. If so you would not need to upgrade the wire, just the breaker, and of course install the EV load management equipment. Since the wire is in conduit you could use a 60 amp breaker if the wire is #6 or a 40 or 50 amp breaker if the wire is #8, assuming the wire is THW, THWN, THHN, etc., and assuming Canada's wire ampacity requirements are the same as those in the US.
Good luck!
Thanks for the information but our house had to have EV management system to have anything above 20AMPS. I had that in plan once we get more Tesla's delivered, that is why the wire was thicker to be compatible with a 60AMP breaker. Now we have 3 wall connectors power sharing with EV management system and 60AMP breaker.
@@POGAuto That's great. I take it that you now have EV Management system installed? Curious if the EV management system lets you know how often it is actually turning off your EV charging, and if so how often it actually activates?
Do you know what size wire they used from the breaker box to the Wall connector? If they didn't use #6 or thicker gage you still won't be able to safely use 48amp charging with the wall connector. (so obvious answer would be to re-run that bit of wire with the right stuff but it's another expense you may not have considered)
thanks for video,,we want to buy a Tesla Model 3,Dont have solar panels,what do cost to charge 110v ,,with wall connector,
You can have two level 2 wall connectors and they will load balance by communicating with each other so neither goes over the limit you set (in your case 20 amps).
Man, 20amp breaker is almost still level 1 charging. I just had my panel inspected and lucky it’s got plenty of room for a 60 amps
overnight, charge the 3 for 4 hours and the Y for 4 hours on the 220V/30amp and you'll be happy - you don't need 200amp service
Look into a black box. It is a automatic load management system. So you can have a 60amp breaker installed as it would count that 60amp breaker as 0% load not 100%
Thank you for explaining, this Tesla charging is kinda headache by itself : (
Could have just stuck with the mobile connector and had the electrician install a 240 V outlet, so you save on wall connector cost.
I installed a 60A breaker for my wall connector with a 100A panel.
Hi, thanks for sharing this video. Maybe i've already read some comments below about that, but i'm still in a doubt. Is it possible, with the Gen 3, to use any kind of dynamic load balance, or integration with solar systems to use production excess for example?
Thanks for sharing your experience, hopefully it will help people plan correctly before buying an EV.
I'm currently upgrading my garage and I added a 100A subpanel in the new section (derived from the main 200A panel), mostly to support one or two EVs in the future.
If you don’t have AC in your house you can run 60amps on your 100amp subpanel but I would charge at night
Your underground wire from the transformer to your meter box is the same for 100 and 200 amp. Couple things though, you are in Canada so might be different. An old subdivision might have a old smaller wire in the ground. You look like you live in a newer subdivision. The power company /utility company is not going to run a smaller triplex to your home and a larger triplex to your neighbor if they have a 200 amp service. Union electrician here and worked in the housing market for over 25 years in Chicagoland. I can't count the number of meter boxes if have wired and there was no difference in triplex size, at least here. The wire from your meter into your house and panel would all have to be changed to 200 amp.
100 amp service not good. However that is max load all at once.
Is it possible to use the Tesla wall charger for Peugeot 208 electric?
Only 100A for a house? Wow. My tiny 1-bedroom apartment has 100A service.
Can you install the Tesla wall connector outside? My garage has too much stuff in it to fit a car. 😂
I saw another video where the Tesla owner recommended the wall charger (over the mobile charger) for outside use as it's designed to be weather resistant.
I am surprised you have a 100amp service I am just outside Calgary and have 200amp service. My last place was just a townhome condo and it also had 200 amp service and was about 18 years old. You can do load sharing if you have two Tesla wall chargers as well so that they can use the same breaker and the two will talk to each other and limit output so that it only uses the maximum of the breaker.
Because you didn’t live in a single dwelling
can this charger be installed outside in the weather?
What a crazy waste of money for a glossy EVSE. Should have just bought another mobile connector and added a nema 1450 outlet. I did all mine on a crusty 30 year old Challenger panel with a 50 amp breaker for $350. Mobile connector was $250. My car charges at 32 amps. Or 50-80% in 3 hours.
Please see the new updated video. This was done for a upcoming planned upgrade
Thank you so much for your video but we don’t use any kind of an adapter or anything, we bought the the exact same Tesla wall charger, we had a Electrician come and made 220v connection straight to our panel, we’ve used it for about 3 months with no problems but recently it’s been tripping the breaker about 30 minutes into charging our vehicle, we have a Tesla model 3, what could be causing the circuit tripping. Thanks
I am not an electrician but just a suggestion. Try connecting to the wall connectors wifi and then making sure it has the proper AMP breaker set up. If you have a 30AMP breaker in the panel then set it to 30AMP mine is a 60AMP now and it is set to 60AMP which gives the car 48AMP of charging speed
Your not using all the full load amps on your panel. It would trip if you have everything one
Great Video!
Does anyone know whether this charger's 40-second intermittent "beep" can be disabled?
You should have wired it for 60amps anyway with the appropriate hardware and breaker instead of limiting yourself to 20amps. In a crunch, you could monitor electricity usage and devote up to 60amps of your available 100amps to your EVs (like at night when you're all sleeping and pretty much electricity use is very low). Plus, you could always control the charging amps within each EV so that you never draw more than what is available to stay within a safety limit during the busy times.
Just bought a Tesla and I don’t have enough room in my outside box for a 220 outlet I need to upgrade my box. So now I’m $ucked with a 2021 Tesla that I need to Charge with a regular 110 outlet. I did a lot of research on the best electric car for me but not on my house. Lol
So even if its the level 2 and chipotle has to be 48. Only give you 16?
if i install the charger my and wiring myself..will it void the warranty? does anybody know?
The adaptor won’t come out of the wall connector. Only the NACS piece comes out not the J1772 anyone know why?
Great video...Thank you.
my left ear enjoyed this
Dude - thought it’s supposed to be “how to use a Tesla Wall Connector” - not what are the requirements to install the wall connector. Took us 2 hours run wires / install. How to use a Wall Connector app once everything install
Has anyone here actually installed a 60A charger on a 100A service and actually tripped the 100A breaker?
i just go to the superchargers near by, this is way too much work.
How much did they cost for installation
Overpriced charger and you can't even take advantage of it at the time. Because of the box. A 240V Nema would've work just as well.
Anyone know why model 3 locked 32A with wall charger ? Model Y can charge 48A.
Model 3 long range can do 48A as well
The beat is fire
Dude really hooked it up to a 20 amp breaker smh good luck with that
What did you mean by the car starts to drain itself?
So let’s say you parked it overnight at 65% battery and did not plug in the car to charge in the morning you will not be at 65% this could be worst on colder days. So I will be doing videos on this rolling when the extreme cold happens
is that 220VAC 60Amps?
I order the nema 15-30 plug 🔌 $35 and its charge me 240volts 24amp
You use the mobile charger right? And also after installing your nema 15-30, do you get your charge to 80% for the recommendation and not worry about it after?
110 will give you only 3 miles per hour. That is not good
What gauge wire did they run to the Tesla Wall connector ??
Look up a wire gauge to amp chart on Google. Probably like 10-12.
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So the car is charging from the electricity from the house? So this runs up the electric bill then right??
Yes
@@POGAuto oh wow ok..thanks for the info
@@MrHim313 just curious, but how did you think the battery was replenished in an EV?
@@madmechanic3213 I was hoping someone had figured out how to absorb all the free electrons floating around in the air, smh
Yes. Where I live electric cost is about 5¢ per mile. My model X Plaid gets 3 miles per kWh.
Hey POGAuto, I am also from Alberta as well. Instead of the Wall Charger, Would you recommend to get the 240V wall plug and just use the Mobile Charger that way instead of the Wall Charger? I do have the same issue as you as I have a 100Amp Breaker Box
I'd get a second opinion for a different electrician and also consult your power company. the power company WANTS you to drive EVs badly and will make it work one way or another.
Unfortunately the electricians were right but there is a different way and now there are 3 wall connectors installed on a 60amp breaker on a power sharing mode
Sorry to say, but this electrician is not skill. Did you know you could fish the wire inside the wall, in behind the charger for a clean installation.
you have great hair
I own 12 tesla
Hard Flex
Subpanel
Sad people do not know that petroleum and coal is what produces electricity
Depends. A lot is solar, wind, hydro and nuclear. Even if it's comming from coal it's still using less energy than an ICE vehicle.
@@stbr0510 what is your source? EPA? 😂 Even wind power farms affect the environment.
@@hadessahf3549 Any use of energy has an effect on the environment. However, all uses are not equal. Why not use that which has the least influence?
@@Pimpernicholas Those sources also may not be as effective or may pose more risks in the long run. As you know, there are many factors that require consideration. Some we know and some we do not know.
@@hadessahf3549Why not start with what we know. I think the ones we know are well-known. Few people commit suicide using wind, solar, hydro, nuclear compared to internal combustion engines. I would say that these health-risk facts are well-known. and there are others that are as obvious.
Lithium batteries are in no way sustainable
Yes and all that electric is coming from coal and gas fired power plants. Nice your helping the environment with your electric car. When everyone on the block starts charging your street will blow up and you will be using candles to read at night.
Common anti-EV comment. Maybe from coal or gas. Maybe from wind, solar, hydro too. But much more efficient than a gas car, get about 3 miles per kWh of electricity, which works out to the equivalent of over 100 miles per gallon of actual energy used.
Back in the 50's very few people had air conditioning. Now almost everyone does. This did not overload the grid, at least in states not run by fools. As EVs slowly are added the grid will be improved, just as it was to allow for air conditioning. Also, if EVs are charged overnight, this will make the grid more efficient because it will be more fully utilized because the grid is underutilized overnight.
How do you find yourself on an EV charger install video and talking this shit? Unless you’re a troll and sought it out.
@@utkyle12 1. Because I install them for a living and probably know more about it than you. 2. Because what I'm saying is the truth. 3. Because this is a place where people exchange different intellectual points of view. Why not respond to my actual comment and tell me how I'm wrong?
Any ideas of your own?
@@ericjorgensen4826 as an electrical contractor I can tell you you are wrong if everyone on your street has an electric car charging at night the grid will never handle it. It was not designed for that kind of load. You sound like an intelligent person I just don't think you understand the sizing of a residential grid and what is capable of handling.
@@Eec2023How about a little intellectual discourse?
I agree with you "When everyone on the block starts charging your street will blow up . . ." IF that happens now, or even soon.
But did you read what I wrote? "As EVs slowly are added the grid will be improved, just as it was to allow for air conditioning."
Right now EVs are a very small percentage of all vehicles. And it will not go to "everyone on the block charging" quickly. It will be a gradual transition.
If everyone installed central air-conditioning in 1955 the same thing would have happened to the grid...it would have suddenly been severely overloaded, from generation to transmission to distribution to individual services.
Back in that time, a typical new middle class house had an electrical service with 4 to 6 screw in fuses and a 240 volt service with two 60 amp cartridge style main fuses, with maybe a second 40 amp 240 volt pull-out style fuse holder for an electric range. Older houses often had less: back in the 1960's my grandmother's house that was built in the 1930's still had a 30 amp 120 volt two wire service with knob and tube wiring.
Almost all such electrical systems have been since upgraded.
And charging overnight (or other off peak times) will help the situation for those that can do that, which is most people. It will more fully utilize the grid, which is underutilized during the 12AM to 6AM time.
BTW, not an electrician, but a EE here.
Many if not most houses with 150 or 200 amp service can handle an additional 240 volt 24 to 48 amp load on their service conductors and electrical panel. As EVs are added, over the years, the many of the distribution transformers will need to be upgraded, as will the entire electrical grid to get to the point where EVs are the predominate vehicle.
Also, it is possible to use load management hardware that can make even a 100 amp service work satisfactorily for EV charging, depending on the type of loads currently being served. There are several EV management systems available that install CTs on the service conductors that allow the system to monitor the total current being drawn, and if it goes above 80% of the rating of the electrical service will shut down the EV charging circuit until the load returns to an acceptable level.
The house I grew up in in the 1960's used to have a 37-1/2 kVa transformer that fed it and 5 other houses. Now this transformer has been changed out to a 100 kVa transformer for these same 6 houses.
In my case, I personally have two Tesla EVs which have no problem simultaneously charging at 48 amps (240 volts, 11.5 kW each). Each EV circuit is attached to one of my 200 amp panels with a 60 amp breaker, with #6 AWG THWN CU wire in conduit to the Tesla Wall Connector. The panels are fed from my 320/400 amp service. Florida Power and Light recently proactively upgraded the pad mount transformer that feeds my house, along with two others, from 50 kVa to a 75 kVa transformer. My underground service is fed with parallel runs of 4/0 AL, and the 200 amp panels are each fed with 3/0 CU from the main disconnect.
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Kilometers? It’s kilowatts