Mark, There are How-To guides to modify the Leaf charger yourself. <http://www.instructables.com/id/CONVERTING-A-LEAF-LEVEL-1-12AMP-CHARGER -TO-A-LEVEL/>
In essence: since the old Leaf charger has a small 110V transformer, you need to wire this across one leg of the 240V input, so you *must* have a 4-wire inlet like NEMA 14-30 but the replacement of the standard 5-15 cord with the 240V inlet and rewiring the transformer input to the (otherwise unused) Neutral is pretty much all that is needed. The charger will still put out the same pilot (there are more extensive hacking/modding services for specific versions of the Leaf charger that also allow changing the pilot settings) so it is still going to do 12 Amps to the car. 240V 12A is 2880 Watts. So, it will charge twice as fast as on 110, not using the full 3.3kW capability of the 2011/2012 Leafs, but pretty close. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hanson via EV Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 3:40 AM To: ev@lists.evdl.org Subject: [EVDL] 240VAC on 120VAC Courtesy charge ports,Best Charge Controller Hi Folks, I have a 120VAC courtesy charge controller in my Leaf and Spark & noticed that there's an online service that changes the plug to 240VAC for about $50 so are the portable charge controllers that come with factory EV's OK to put a 240VAC plug on and operate at 3.3KW instead of 1.4KW? Obviously the J1772 works at 240/120 into the switching battery charger on the vehicle but was curious if there was some internal charge control control circuitry that wouldn't tolerate the higher voltage? Also what's the best 240VAC wall mount charge controller with a KWH/time display, GE, Juice Box, Schnieder, Aerovironment etc? I already have a GE but had to special order a display from the factory in Mebane NC (since I used to work there) but would rather get another charge controller with the display already installed. Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20161129/b7c0 4e9c/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) _______________________________________________ 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)
