Has anyone googled "electrocutions at RV parks"? The NEMA plugs are over 100 years old and the higher power ones are not safe enough for public use in public locations. David Kerzel
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zeke Yewdall Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:56 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)
