Added an appliance 50 amp cord to my Gen 3 WC, pull a rock steady 40 amps at 36 mph, love the NEMA 14-50 outlet as it gives me options going forward. Tax credit is an added bonus.
It’s important to point out the magic is the giant electric cable. It doesn’t have to go to a Tesla Wall Connector, though that is the cleanest solution. Just having a 50A 220V circuit and socket there on the wall would allow you to use the mobile connector in a similar fast mode with the included adaptor plug. But then you are either leaving the mobile connector at home or having to store it every use.
They should have made also a Tesla badge glow green or yellow or red depends on what is going on with it, it would look way better and more futuristic.
Question. Can you set up the system to charge at 20 amps during the day and 48 amps overnight. I will be mainly charging overnight, but want to add some charge during the day. I'm limited to 60 amps for my garage/ inlaw suite. During the daytime, inlaw suite may be using 30 or so amps, so I cannot use 48 amps, but overnight I feel comfortable using 48
The Tesla Wall Connector is only set for the max rating based on the circuit it is attached to. You can, however, change the charging rate on the Tesla vehicle charging screen on the lower left to reduce the charge rate down from the 48 amps to 40, 32, etc. Remember that you never want to pull more than 80% sustained long-term (over 3 hrs) load of the circuit rating (based on the National Electrical Code). Hope that helps!
@@GTStrane as a new excited owner of I'm looking at a lot of mod videos. Mud flaps ambient lighting wrapping paint film any mod really but affordable ones
Once you have made your original line from the breaker, can you tap into that outlet box to place a second wall charger next to it? Or would each charger need to have a line to the breaker
Technically, no. It doesn't directly convert AC to DC. Common misconception. The wall connector supplies AC voltage to the car from the AC mains source in your house, typically a 240 volt AC single-phase service tied to a 60 amp circuit (NEC calculations rate sustained load at 80% of a circuits rating, hence a 60A breaker supplies 48A sustained charging. Think of the Wall Connector, whether v2 or v3, or the Mobile Connector or CMC, all are more like a smart, beefy extension cord with extra circuitry and communication signals over low-voltage connectors (the smaller connectors on the tesla charging plug) to ensure some safety vs an unregulated extension cord. It is the onboard charging module in the car that takes AC energy in and converts it to DC to be stored in the Li-Ion cells comprising the cars battery pack. Conversely, Tesla Superchargers, and other branded DC Fast Chargers supply DC voltage directly to the car. You may ask, "How is that any different? Aren't the superchargers tied into the electrical company too?" Yes, they are. There are 2 main differences: 1) That big enclosure next to the superchargers is whats called a 'rectifier'. A rectifier converts AC power from the power company and transforms it into DC power, which allows the onboard charger module in the car to go into pass-through mode (doesn't have to be tasked with converting AC to DC now) and therefore can allow the massive 250 kilowatts of DC power to come through without overstressing the charging system in the car, whereas the Tesla Wall Connector can merely supply up to 11.5 kilowatts AC power limited mainly by the electrical service to your house. 2) The 480-volt 3 phase, 2000-amp AC service supplied to the Superchargers produces 1 megawatt of energy and converts it to DC and supplies 4 Supercharger stalls at 250 kilowatts each. Basically, each grouping of 4 Tesla Supercharger v3 stalls fed power from that rectifier has the equivalent electrical capacity as approximately 21 single-family homes. Hope that answered your question!
@@Metalsman75 Thank you! I appreciate it. There are so many underinformed/misinformed people making up things and teaching people wrong information on the internet. Perhaps my explanation is a bit too technical for many, and they will simply TL;DR. But for those that wish to understand everything that is under the hood, I wrote it for them. While I am not a professional licensed Electrician by trade, I appreciate what the work is and the knowledge that goes into it as a critical infrastructure component. In my belief, you have picked an excellent (and exciting, pun intended) trade. Not all heroes go to college and get PhDs. Thank you for your small part in lighting the world Sir Journeyman!! Safe travels.
Regular charger charge 3miles an hour x100 = 300miles so that’s 100 hours to charge full with regular charger. 4days that’s 96 hours total need 4 days and 4 hours to charge up full for 300 miles for regular Tesla.
I call BS on this video. You should have plugged the mobile charger to the 240V 50 amp outlet and you would have seen charging speed upto 35Miles per hour vs 40 some with the fancy new charger you just paid 500 plus 600 for the outlet. Hardly a big improvemnt for 1100 bucks more. What do you say?
Ajay Bhogal yeah you need a nema 14-50 for a wall connector anyway.. you’ll just save $625 dollars to get 34 mph vs 43-44 and I drive 45k miles a year and it works fine.
At 4 miles per hour the most you can get in a 24 hour day is 96 miles of range. If the battery was down to 50%, you would have to charge it non stop for a full day and a half. Otherwise, you'd have to swing by a super charger to get it back up to near full. The factory supplied wall outlet plugs work but not for everyone.
Yeah it all depends on your driving situation. My dad drives a lot all over for his job so he needs the faster charging since there aren't any superchargers within an hour in Minnesota where we live
I was wondering the same thing. Plenty of countries drive on the left with steering wheel on the right (including where i'm from)... Australia, New Zealand, UK, India, Thailand, South Africa, etc etc. but he seems American, so I think its mirror effect only ...
