Trying to wrap my head around your comment of “market rate”? Here’s my take, all electricians you asked for a quote have different ideas on how the job is layed out for them. Secondly those that spent the most time with you, probably have the best picture of what they’ll have to do for your install, and most probably will represent the closest real cost for the job. Those that didn’t spend too much time may have figured you were getting multiple quotes and didn’t care to be one of ten, bidding your work. That said every home has a different lay out, panels aren’t in a specific place, and depending on if you have one or two floors, impacts how they’ll have to route the feeder to your desired charging location.
Depends on how you want to look at that. Because it's a continuous load, you are not allowed to run it near the maximum the outlet is capable of. It's long periods of time, but always far below the outlet's rating.
No. This is 2018, not 2013.
I dunno, commercial electricians might not have a license to work on residential houses, it does not mean they don't know what they are doing. Permit is a permit is a permit. As long as the install will meet all the regulations if you need to get a permit later an install is an install (Yes you should probably get a permit). Some will ask if you want to get a permit or not as it simply adds time and cost to the install or opens up inspections to find other issues. When the inspection came for our solar install everything passed inspection but when I was up in the attic fishing some cat-5e I found all sorts of things that should not have passed inspection. It's because the inspector didn't go up into the attic I guess... Basically there's tons of exposed romex wires left up there, although they are not actually hooked up to any power, another set of romex was run right near the access which I believe is also against regulation.
Is there some reason you think the connection between the UMC and the adapter isn't prone to wear? I'd actually rather trust the 14-50 outlet.
Yeah, I've always thought that suggestion was kind of crazy, putting the repeated wear on a $300 piece of equipment versus a $10 or $70 piece of equipment. You can proactively replace that outlet every 5 or 6 years for cheaper than if you mess up your UMC from detaching that adapter frequently.
I'm not sure why you would think that. Being "mobile" means that the whole thing is smaller and lighter, so you can lift it and carry it around and move it places. I doubt they built it with the expectation that you're going to be pulling its adapters off every day. I sure would not expect that connection point to be made for a lot of plugging cycles. The use case would be either that it's rarely used as a backup, or that it is used constantly at someone's home, which would be on the same connection, not changing adapters every day.
Not at all. Why would you think that? Why do you think you need to take the mobile charging cable with you every single day away from home when you are driving around locally? You do over 200 miles every day, where you would need to charge away from home? That would be well over 50,000 miles a year just for weekdays. Most people don't do that. Remember that Superchargers and Tesla wall connectors and J1772 charging stations don't even use the mobile charging cable, so where could you go in New Jersey that there aren't any access to any charging stations where you would need to plug into someone's outlet? A very large portion of Tesla owners leave the mobile cable plugged in at home hanging on the wall and don't unplug it every day. There generally isn't any reason to.
Careful what you're talking about here. This isn't talking about the plug that goes into the charge port, or about the plug pins that go into the outlets. This was about the interface where the adapters plug into the electronics body. That is used when you change what kind of outlet you are going to plug into, and the normal use case is not switching what type of outlet they use every day. And that is especially true for "the general non-enthusiast masses", who aren't going to be switching around outlet types every day from 5-15 to 14-30 to 6-50 to 10-30 to 14-50 to 6-15, where they would be changing adapters all the time putting heavy daily use on that connection.
Who said anything about range being in garage!
. Range outlet near (feel free to say how far) from panel. I have this exact setup (basement MIL).At least you had the right appliance. A lot of times I see people say to tell the electrician you want the 14-50 for a clothes dryer. Clothes dryers don't even use that type of outlet.Who said anything about range being in garage!
RV plug is better rationale though
Nobody outside of Tesla knows the specifications of Tesla's proprietary plug, but the connectors look similar to the ones in the Tesla charge handle or a J1772 handle. The latter is designed to withstand 10,000 mating cycles. Residential grade appliance outlets are simply not designed for this kind of (ab-)use.
