A 120volt outlet is usually only rated for 15 amps.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone-------- Original message --------From: Bill Dube via EV <[email protected]> Date: 1/18/2016 12:07 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Seth Rothenberg <[email protected]>, Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Leaf Chargers I believe the trickle charger is limited to ~12amps at 120 volts. Thus, only 1400 watts or so. They can be internally modified for 240 volt ~3 kW "euro" charging, but that is about it, as I understand it. Bill D. On 1/18/2016 8:28 AM, Seth Rothenberg via EV wrote: > Does anyone know if the Leaf with 6.6KW onboard > charger is supposed to come with a different kind of EVSE? > Or is the "trickle charge" just that, regardless of > the car's ability to charge faster? > > I bought an OpenEVSE, but I would like to know > if I need to ask the dealer to replace the 12a charger > with the correct one. > > Thanks > Seth > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at 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 Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160119/704215b5/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
