In my previous home I had an electric stove with a NEMA10-50 connection. This is the older version of what now is upgraded to 14-50 (240V 50A 4-prong) while the 10-50 is 3-prong (240V only, no Neutral so no 120V) I also bought 20 ft of 6 Gauge wire and 10-50 plug and socket, to bring the stove outlet to the driveway. About $50 total but in the 4 years that I lived there, it was used only once. I think that the problem is that those outlets are not guaranteed to be available (I had to roll out the extension cord) so EV'ers might not take the chance, while if there is a charger on the public street, then you can be quite sure that it is accessible (though it may be in use - for that reason the status can be queried online). I have a JiuceBox lying in my garage, unfortunately there is no parking anywhere near my house except in the garage, so that does not make public charging feasible even if I wanted.
I'll install it in my garage to allow me to "fast"-charge and I will some day also promote to install one of my chargers at work. Regards, Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of fred Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 6:49 PM To: EV DL Subject: [EVDL] a nickel of my time Many moons ago, back in the early days of the Zap Xebra, I discovered a web site (URL now forgotten, but still active) in which fellow EVers could list their availability for charging. As a show of support, I installed an RV outlet for 220v and a couple of 110v outlets. RV outlets are permitted easily, but NEMA 15-40 outlets are a bit more difficult for EV charging purposes! In the five years since, not a single soul has requested use of my power source. If more EVers were aware of this utility and made use of it, perhaps this nickel "theft" would no longer be an issue. fred -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131207/082a d454/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)
