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Don't worry. Not charging on it now. I also know how to recommission to lower current as well. the 40A breaker has been swapped for 60A breaker by the electrician. I am still wondering if the wiring is sufficient for 48A actual (60A breaker), or 40A actual (50 A breaker). I am going to...

I"m trying to figure out if: 1. is it safe to charge at 48A or do I need to get someone to make small changes to charge safely at 48A? 2. If not safe, can I turn it down to 40A at the charger as well as get breakers swapped for 40A (so 50A breaker). It isn't totally clear to me.

I will go back and try to verify as much information about the wire when I get a chance. All I know right now, is the electrician told me it is 6 AWG wire. Picture of the wire in case anyone can tell by looking at it, it is the pair of bigger red and black wires.

Of course I had to make a typo while correcting. Sorry, I saw 48/48A, not 40/40A!! I saw 48A and i was surprised the 40A breaker did NOT break. I'm thinking it is a bad breaker.

Thanks so much for the information! To answer your question: Yes, I saw 48/48A, 232V (from voltage drop of the length, I assume that is 240V at the meter). It is a model 3 performance. I don't have an electric stove. Another company calculated that 48A charging is ok for 100A, but they were...

Oh, not sure if I was unclear. I meant yes the Tesla app was shouding 48/48 so I was charging at 48A.

My questions are in the attached picture. -Is there something wrong with changing the 80A breaker to the subpanel, to 100A or 125A, even though it is down stream of the 100A main breaker for the main panel so would never trip? The wire can handle it. Point being that with 80A breaker going to...

Just to clarify, is there no good way to apply the decal, on a car that has already been ceramic coated? I suspect people on amazon complaining that the decal on top of PPF have lost their stickers may have had their cars ceramic coated. Any recommendations for where to put the stickers if you...

Bought on 12/27, still don't have permanent plates now. I have until 3/27 before the temporary plates expire. They told me to wait another week or week and a half. How does it take them so long? Isn't it just paperwork? They should get an intern to do all the paperwork if it is...

Not specifically. I had the issue before the recent weather in the Bay Area, when it was daytime and cool sunny, and night time. It also happens lately with the rains but again it happened before the rains. Thanks for telling me which vhb!

Do you mind telling us exactly which VHB you are using? Is it the 5952? I was thinking, what could I be doing differently from a normal car. I have barely used the brakes since getting the car, because of regenerative braking. So I went out and took some close to limit braking runs. For...

Hi All, This is hard to describe so bear with me. If I brake when reversing, and then switch to drive, the first time I brake going forward I hear a small bang sound. Same goes for if I have been driving forwards and braking, and if I stop, reverse, and the first time I brake after reversing, I...

but yeah 24A is mostly good enough for me too.

but... if you wanted to complete charging even faster to clear your house of EV charging so power could be used for otehr things (say a party so need to use stove, oven, microwave, and washer/drier... then it could be helpful to charge faster so you can more total usage khwr's pulled... So not...

oh cool! i knew someone had to have already thought of this

Isn't this a cheaper way to get power to the EV charger, but doesn't change charge amperage based on available amperage? Still cool none the less. Wish this came out earlier so I could have used it!

Yeah, so my thinking was: Say I put a 60amp (48 amp draw) breaker to the wall charger. And then whenever I use the oven, etc. then constant current draw gets to 80A so wall connector decreases current draw to keep it at 80A and not go over. As soon as the oven etc. is done being used, it...

Either it would be some EE trickery way, by looking at current and waveforms, etc., or simply an additional device that constantly measures current at the main breaker to stay under 80A. So a wireless device or even... wired device that goes from main breaker to wall charger. That was the...

Hi All, New to the forum, so please excuse any newbie questions. I am asking this in a theoretical sense. My question is, why doesn't tesla have something that measures amperage at the main breaker, so then the wall connector could control amperage given to charging the car, so you can...

Received a quote using: -wallbox charger, 30A 240V, for $3109.35. -Tesla wall connector lowers it a bit, I think that comes out to $2872.80 These are becoming prices I can stomach especially with the 30% off, tax credit.

Thanks for bringing this up. I was unaware of this. A first pass google search yielded this: https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/605201/federal-tax-credit-for-electric-vehicle-chargers "Essentially, if you install a home EV charging station, the tax credit under the Inflation Reduction Act is 30%...

Thanks for the responses guys. Yeah, I think I will hold off unless I can get L2 charging. (But I want to switch to Tesla so badly with the gas prices right now!) Just got a quote for $2323 with possible additional $600-700 because they forgot to add that they would need to add a breaker at...

Wow. This makes me think I am being over quoted to. Not sure about bay area, CA prices though... maybe in that case i'm not being over quoted to? I'll shop around though thanks for the info.

I have 100A going to the condo. If I do one of the 240V, less amperage options, I think capacity isn't a problem. There is room on the panel as well. The issue is how does the wire get from the breaker to the garage, through the rest of the condo building. That is the mystery to me. Is there...

Sounds about right for things in my life :)

maybe i should say i'm getting a Bolt.

I've gotten I think three quotes with a wide range. 1. 4-7K 2. 5-8K? 3. One general one like this: "Typical costs for single family residential installations are usually between $1,800 to $2,800, depending on your electrical environment." <-- this last one seems general and they might raise...

Does anyone know if what I said is not true? I want to make sure we're not calculating 80% twice. Is it 80% of 20V = 15V or 80% of 15V = 12V?

Considered this and this would route wiring on outside of building needing HOA approval. I don’t prefer to go this route but maybe I should revisit this. Whatever is cheaper.

I was just thinking as I went to sleep last night, and realized that the other things in the garage probably still need to be on 120V. Other than the fridge which I could move, I have the garage door opener, and a light in the garage that I suspect have to run on 120 V and will not run on...

I guess for me... i'm assuming a performance is still faster than a LR or RWD model 3, at whatever SOC i am at, so I still prefer to have the performance... for the fun factor. Heh.

Thanks for your response. Can you clarify what “in conduit” means? I don’t fully understand all this electrical verbiage.

Does it not work to limit the amperage right there on the charging screen? Any draw back to this? I thought the purpose of that amperage setting was specifically for my situation.

Wait, is this possible on 14 AWG wire? If this is possible this sounds totally a workable solution. If I could do this on existing 14 AWG wire, and just change to connect 240 to the current wire, change the breaker and plus and be done. I will look into this.

Yep, that's factored in. I think 14 AWG can handle 20A but 80% if 15A, so I plan to use right up to that 15A. Breaker is only rated for 15A though so not sure if breaker will consistently break if I run at say... 14.8A. I wouldn't want to put a 20A breaker on the circuit either though.

Yeah, personal time is also a thing. My job is... super busy and one of the original benefits to me, was to not go to gas stations but always charge at work. Yeah, I talked to an electrician and he said I would probably have to replace the pipe the wire goes in, to put bigger wire to do any...

Should I get a Model 3 Performance? Thanks in advance to anyone who reads and responds to my long post. If anyone sees something I have left out in my research, please help to point it out to me! I'd really like to make this work. Background: So I rented a Model 3 Performance back in 2019. I...