My used iMiEV came with a no-name L1 charging brick. I mean literally no name - there's no ID on the thing, only an ETL logo and some minimal instructions zip-tied to the power cord. It does clearly say 120 VAC, which surprised me. I thought these things generally had universal input.
I'm trying to broaden my opportunity charging opportunities, and there is a Tesla store in a mall in my area that has a charging area in the parking garage. Apparently Teslas use a 14-50 (RV or electric range) outlet in addition to their proprietary port and they have several available. (And the plugshare blurb shows a Leaf charging there, so it looks like they're OK with that. But yes, I'll ask.) So here's my question. A 14-50 has a neutral, so I'm pretty sure I can adapt my brick to it by simply tapping one leg of the 240 V. Is there anything subtle that I'm missing? Like if there are a bunch of these outlets fed by a single panel and I pull 3 kW off one leg of one, is that an issue? Anything else? I'm thinking it'll be fine, but I'm not comfortable deciding that on my own. (Such is the challenge of being an electrical dolt in an EV world.) TIA, Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170228/232e4d19/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)
