To be J1772 compliant your charger needs to be able to do exactly that. As part of the handshake the EVSE tells the charger how many amps can provide and the charger must adjust itself accordingly.
--Rick On 05/22/2013 01:55 PM, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote: > But to install an affordable off-the-shelf 10K on-board charger, the > charger had better have the ability to draw only what is being supplied. > i.e.: plugging a 10K on-board charger into a typical 6kW public EVSE > will pop the breaker feeding 6kW EVSE (or the EVSE will shutdown/be > damaged). Meaning the on-board charger had better have some smarts to > know to turn itself down according to the capability of the source. i.e: > if you were at a bud's house and they had a 3kW home EVSE, your on-board > charger would have to be smart enough to cut its power draw down to a > 3kW level. _______________________________________________ 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)
