Most videos about charging use AC hooked up to the grid and the people are complaining about charging at 100amps as being slow. I wonder about their electric bill. 16 amps at 240 overnight seems reasonable. or with enough panels during the day to make it free.
People want everything to be instant. For my use, 16 amps are fine. I can add 10-15 kwh to my EV on a sunny day, which gives me 45+ miles. A 100amp charge rate possibly shortens the life of the battery!
So say a person buys the Ford F150 Electric. And wants an off grid charging station to power it, completely off the grid to fully charge the pickup every day with the larger battery option. What size system and how much battery would one need. Thanks for the help.
To charge totally off-grid would take a large battery. The f150 lightning battery is 125kWh, so you would need enough battery to charge it on cloudy days, or overnight. A more realistic scenario would be to charge off solar when you have excess solar production. You would have to find out how many kWhrs you actually use on a typical day. I'm estimating 3-4 miles per kWhr plus whatever power you might use at a jobsite, etc from the Ford's built in inverter.
Let's say I used 250 miles worth of the battery every day. I am in rural Southern Oregon. How much panels and batteries do I need. Is that 10,000 dollars, 20,000 dollars.
Greatest video my father owns a Chevy volt it’s 1gen it takes quite time to charge at 120 8amps but our electrical system doesn’t allow more as breaker trips anyways this charger you mention is nice for the display but we also are ima future planing to go solar and I’ll be awesome to not depend on the breaker limits and maybe go full 240v but that of course as you mention might take a while to save up , how much did the Chevy volt batteries cost you and shipping is it hard to modify those batteries to work for this types of setups ? I mostly have only tried 12v inverters
Thanks, Chuck. I picked up the Volt batteries on ebay a few years ago for around $300/each plus shipping. They cost more now. Also Volt batteries don't have a BMS system. I would look at LiFePo (Lithium Iron Phosate) instead. Safer, built-in BMS, they weigh a little more, but that doesn't matter in a household solar storage system. Also, use thicker wire for the EVSE charger outlet. I used 8awg.
I've been searching for why I can't get my LEAF level one charger to work with my inverter. I have found that it is needing a ground. I grounded my inverter and it still didn't work. I installed a GFCI and it also didn't work. WHAT does work without spending hundreds more.
@@ReelClearMediaLLC I just now checked it and it worked! I have 4- 6v golf cart batteries, 600 watts of solar a GoWise 2000 watt pure sine inverter and the Renogy Rover charge controller. A simple system, but it'll charge my car. 😁
@@ReelClearMediaLLC OH I just realized you are not who I was thinking of. Yes the charger works on the grid. It was looking for ground and my inverter is a floating ground. I made a neutral ground bonding plug, plugged it in a that fixed the problem 😁
some electric vehicles, such as my Chevy Volt, do not offer DC charging. Many newer EVs do have fast DC charging, but would most likely require a charge controller to regulate solar power.
Without an output transformer in that Growatt inverter to provide galvanic isolation, during a catastrophic failure of the H-Bridge circuit where the MOSFETs short to ground, you risk passing high amperage DC current through to you EVs onboard charger which can fry your charger and void your EVs warranty. I would never plug my EV into one of these high frequency, transformerless inverters. There's an excellent video on UA-cam titled "catastrophic inverter failure" by Red Hill Labs that explains in detail, why you should never plug an EV into one of these transformerless inverters.
Without an output transformer to provide galvanic isolation between the DC boost stage and its AC output, that cheap high frequency, transformerless Growatt inverter will one day fry your EVs onboard charger and will void your EV's warranty.
that was a really smooth camera transition from inside the car to the outside in the intro. very impressive haha
Very impresive way who you do a video mounting :). Nice.
Excellent video! I dont have an EV but could understand everything you talked about!!
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Thanks very informative I learned a lot 👏👏👏
Most videos about charging use AC hooked up to the grid and the people are complaining about charging at 100amps as being slow. I wonder about their electric bill. 16 amps at 240 overnight seems reasonable. or with enough panels during the day to make it free.
People want everything to be instant. For my use, 16 amps are fine. I can add 10-15 kwh to my EV on a sunny day, which gives me 45+ miles. A 100amp charge rate possibly shortens the life of the battery!
So say a person buys the Ford F150 Electric. And wants an off grid charging station to power it, completely off the grid to fully charge the pickup every day with the larger battery option. What size system and how much battery would one need. Thanks for the help.
To charge totally off-grid would take a large battery. The f150 lightning battery is 125kWh, so you would need enough battery to charge it on cloudy days, or overnight.
A more realistic scenario would be to charge off solar when you have excess solar production.
You would have to find out how many kWhrs you actually use on a typical day. I'm estimating 3-4 miles per kWhr plus whatever power you might use at a jobsite, etc from the Ford's built in inverter.
Let's say I used 250 miles worth of the battery every day. I am in rural Southern Oregon. How much panels and batteries do I need. Is that 10,000 dollars, 20,000 dollars.
There are many variables, check out this video as a simplified primer. ua-cam.com/video/TJBGbufexEM/v-deo.html
Greatest video my father owns a Chevy volt it’s 1gen it takes quite time to charge at 120 8amps but our electrical system doesn’t allow more as breaker trips anyways this charger you mention is nice for the display but we also are ima future planing to go solar and I’ll be awesome to not depend on the breaker limits and maybe go full 240v but that of course as you mention might take a while to save up , how much did the Chevy volt batteries cost you and shipping is it hard to modify those batteries to work for this types of setups ? I mostly have only tried 12v inverters
Thanks, Chuck. I picked up the Volt batteries on ebay a few years ago for around $300/each plus shipping. They cost more now. Also Volt batteries don't have a BMS system. I would look at LiFePo (Lithium Iron Phosate) instead. Safer, built-in BMS, they weigh a little more, but that doesn't matter in a household solar storage system.
Also, use thicker wire for the EVSE charger outlet. I used 8awg.
I've been searching for why I can't get my LEAF level one charger to work with my inverter. I have found that it is needing a ground. I grounded my inverter and it still didn't work. I installed a GFCI and it also didn't work.
WHAT does work without spending hundreds more.
Does the charger work when using the grid?
What kind of inverter? How is the inverter grounded?
@@ReelClearMediaLLC I just now checked it and it worked!
I have 4- 6v golf cart batteries, 600 watts of solar a GoWise 2000 watt pure sine inverter and the Renogy Rover charge controller. A simple system, but it'll charge my car. 😁
@@ReelClearMediaLLC OH I just realized you are not who I was thinking of.
Yes the charger works on the grid. It was looking for ground and my inverter is a floating ground. I made a neutral ground bonding plug, plugged it in a that fixed the problem 😁
Dear, the point is Not to use an inverter. To charge directly from the panels, without inverter. Electric cars doesnt accept Dc charging?
some electric vehicles, such as my Chevy Volt, do not offer DC charging. Many newer EVs do have fast DC charging, but would most likely require a charge controller to regulate solar power.
Very good video Thank you, have you done a tutorial on paralleling inverters I don’t quite understand how that works .TIA new subscriber.
I only have one inverter. I've considered getting a second one, if I do, I'll video the hookup.
Without an output transformer in that Growatt inverter to provide galvanic isolation, during a catastrophic failure of the H-Bridge circuit where the MOSFETs short to ground, you risk passing high amperage DC current through to you EVs onboard charger which can fry your charger and void your EVs warranty. I would never plug my EV into one of these high frequency, transformerless inverters. There's an excellent video on UA-cam titled "catastrophic inverter failure" by Red Hill Labs that explains in detail, why you should never plug an EV into one of these transformerless inverters.
Thanks, I'll check out that video. So far, I've used the Growatt daily for several years with no problems.
Nice video, but look for a way to DC charge and skip all the inverter mess. It is very lossy.
That would rely on the vehicle supporting direct charging.
Without an output transformer to provide galvanic isolation between the DC boost stage and its AC output, that cheap high frequency, transformerless Growatt inverter will one day fry your EVs onboard charger and will void your EV's warranty.
Level 1; That's a Granny Cord..
What’s the name of the evse?
It was called Zencar, now called Megear. See 6:47
Sound a bit too basey.