On Wed Jan 15 14:08:29 PST 2014 [email protected] said: >On 15 Jan 2014 at 11:00, John Lussmyer wrote: > >> Not if you do it "right". I have 2 charging inlets (120 and 240). I use a >> pair of breakers with a mechanical interlock so only 1 can be ON at a time. > >Maybe I'm missing something here, but why not use a 4-pin inlet, perhaps >similar to a modern clothes dryer plug? With the proper relays, connecting >120 volts to neutral and one hot would activate the 120v charger and connect >it to the battery; connecting 240 volts to neutral and the other hot would >activate the 240v charger and connect IT to the battery. There'd be no >exposed live pins that way.
Oh it's quite doable. But does NOT fit nicely in the gas filler areas of my truck... :-) I don't like having extra connections hanging down to be messed with. -- Tigers prowl and Dragons soar in my dreams... _______________________________________________ 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)
