I posted in an Electrical chat forum, but they suggested posting here too. Has anyone else had problems with Gen 3 power sharing and the ESA? I am going to repost what I shared on the other forum and my frustrations. Please bear with the long post.
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Pretty fed up with ESA. Looking for advice.
4 years ago, had licensed electrician install 2x Gen 2 Tesla wall chargers. My garage is on the other side of the houses main breaker box. Electrician had to dig around the front of the house to install wiring. It was a very expensive and time consuming endeavour. We basically had to hire a contractor to do most of the ground work.
They installed I believe Tek cable and there was a 90 amp breaker used at main panel. In the garage, the 2nd gen chargers were daisy chained and set with the dip switches as per instructions. Every thing passed with ESA.
Fast forward to today. 1 charging unit started malfunctioning and we are upgrading 1 car as lease is ending. So we decide to upgrade both chargers too.
Paid different licensed electrician again to install. They remove old gen 2 chargers. Install sub panel with 2x 60 amp breakers and install Gen 3 chargers to that.
They then set everything up for me via the new WIFI interface as per instructions. Everything works as before. Combined cars are not drawing more than 72 amps as programmed.
ESA comes and inspection fails.
It's now turned into a complete gong show. They want me to install yet another cable run from main breaker box. To me, this made absolutely no sense. Have been going back and forth for weeks trying to find out what is wrong. Electrician no longer communicating with me and ESA doesn't want to communicate with us the home owners.
Finally, just recently I found out that the main problem is that ESA doesn't like the new interface wifi login for changing settings. It's 'too easy' to change they say. As opposed, to say, using a very super difficult screw driver to remove screws and change dip switches. They think that I am going to play around with settings because I'm bored and want to burn my house down.
The whole thing has gotten completely absurd. I am not going to pay thousands again to dig up around the house and install yet another cable line. It completely defeats the purpose of the power sharing feature. On top of this, they also want new load calculation tests done because now we assume that the combined draw is a potential 96 as opposed to when it was set at 72 which can now lead to further problems ie. main panel upgrade
Does anyone have experience with any of this? Any advice for me? I am getting nowhere with the electrician and ESA.
I cannot believe what is happening with all this. I have lost all faith in these 'licensed' electricians and certainly this ESA governing body. The whole thing seems like a cash grab covered under the guise of safety.
Everything is just beyond frustrating. It also boggles my mind as to why inspections take place after the fact once everything is installed by a 'licensed' electrician. Doesn't it make sense to forward information before electrical changes are made?? Now I am stuck with this mess and out of pocket for what was done.
The last thing the electrician recommended was to remove 1 wall charger and either install a dryer socket or some cheap lower power chinese wall charger off amazon. Of course, I flatly declined this as it just sounds ridiculous.
I cannot believe what I am going through. Something that has worked for 4 years without a hitch is now a hazard. There has to be some other solution to all this, does anyone have any recommendations???? Is there anything I can further do in the garage to rectify this?
Sorry for the long rant but this is just bonkers to me!
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Pretty fed up with ESA. Looking for advice.
4 years ago, had licensed electrician install 2x Gen 2 Tesla wall chargers. My garage is on the other side of the houses main breaker box. Electrician had to dig around the front of the house to install wiring. It was a very expensive and time consuming endeavour. We basically had to hire a contractor to do most of the ground work.
They installed I believe Tek cable and there was a 90 amp breaker used at main panel. In the garage, the 2nd gen chargers were daisy chained and set with the dip switches as per instructions. Every thing passed with ESA.
Fast forward to today. 1 charging unit started malfunctioning and we are upgrading 1 car as lease is ending. So we decide to upgrade both chargers too.
Paid different licensed electrician again to install. They remove old gen 2 chargers. Install sub panel with 2x 60 amp breakers and install Gen 3 chargers to that.
They then set everything up for me via the new WIFI interface as per instructions. Everything works as before. Combined cars are not drawing more than 72 amps as programmed.
ESA comes and inspection fails.
It's now turned into a complete gong show. They want me to install yet another cable run from main breaker box. To me, this made absolutely no sense. Have been going back and forth for weeks trying to find out what is wrong. Electrician no longer communicating with me and ESA doesn't want to communicate with us the home owners.
Finally, just recently I found out that the main problem is that ESA doesn't like the new interface wifi login for changing settings. It's 'too easy' to change they say. As opposed, to say, using a very super difficult screw driver to remove screws and change dip switches. They think that I am going to play around with settings because I'm bored and want to burn my house down.
The whole thing has gotten completely absurd. I am not going to pay thousands again to dig up around the house and install yet another cable line. It completely defeats the purpose of the power sharing feature. On top of this, they also want new load calculation tests done because now we assume that the combined draw is a potential 96 as opposed to when it was set at 72 which can now lead to further problems ie. main panel upgrade
Does anyone have experience with any of this? Any advice for me? I am getting nowhere with the electrician and ESA.
I cannot believe what is happening with all this. I have lost all faith in these 'licensed' electricians and certainly this ESA governing body. The whole thing seems like a cash grab covered under the guise of safety.
Everything is just beyond frustrating. It also boggles my mind as to why inspections take place after the fact once everything is installed by a 'licensed' electrician. Doesn't it make sense to forward information before electrical changes are made?? Now I am stuck with this mess and out of pocket for what was done.
The last thing the electrician recommended was to remove 1 wall charger and either install a dryer socket or some cheap lower power chinese wall charger off amazon. Of course, I flatly declined this as it just sounds ridiculous.
I cannot believe what I am going through. Something that has worked for 4 years without a hitch is now a hazard. There has to be some other solution to all this, does anyone have any recommendations???? Is there anything I can further do in the garage to rectify this?
Sorry for the long rant but this is just bonkers to me!