What is a Tesla Charge Controller? BTW, crackling sounds are usually leaky capacitors.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 5, 2020, at 9:14 PM, Mark Laity-Snyder via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have installed 2 Tesla charge controllers and have had 2 of them fail at > my house. I bought 2 when I first got my Tesla because I have 2 houses and I > figured it would be worth it to have one at each house. I never got around > to installing the 2nd one so It has served as a spare so I don't have to wait > for Tesla to replace the burned out one. But I just want to make sure there > is nothing on my end causing these to go out. The wiring is very simple so I > am not sure how it could be on my end. The charge controllers have both > lasted about 7 to 9 months. They work fine up until the day they stop > working. They still lit up but a red light comes on instead of the green > when I plug in the power supply. There was also a crackling noise inside the > last one. The Tesla charges fine on 120VAC. I plan to replace the latest > dud again soon but I just want to avoid future problems. > Any info would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Mark > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200506/7bbb7f72/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
