There's one fundamental difference: for the EVSE the cord is pre-attached to the "hot" end. The reverse is true for RVs.
Peri -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zeke Yewdall Sent: 13 March, 2013 7:56 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVSE-overcrowing replaces range-angst > There are a lot of RVs on the road and no one seems to get shocked using > the > 50A outlets. But of course the extension cord is dead until the male plug > is plugged into the receptacle and it is difficult to shock yourself with > the female connector. It is of course different on EV extensions where one > could attach the connector to the battery pack first creating the > possibility of getting a shock from the male plug prior to plugging it into > the AC receptacle, or a shock from the male plug on the EV itself before > the > extension is connected. We are talking about AC in the cord, not DC, right? (this would be different for the DC charge port). The car is not capable of generating any AC (unless its a V2G car, which already has tons of complicated electronics to prevent this). So, it's still only a cord energized by grid voltage. So it's not any different on an EV situation than on an RV situation, it seems to me. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130313/2b47fc37 /attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
