Tesla Motors Club
Hi,
I am awaiting my LR AWD M3. So far we are preparing for the car by installing a home charging setup. A friend of mine has agreed to sell me a Tesla wall charger for a very good price since he has an extra one and I have a construction electrician coming by this weekend to set up our box. We have talked about putting in an 80 amp breaker, but he will look at our home and probably lock it down to 60 amps, which would probably mean only 40-45 amps available (since according to him, we never go full throttle on the circuit).
We discussed adding a back up plan in the event that the device fails. He agreed that this would be a very good idea, not only for redundancy in the event that the device fails, but especially if we moved. I wouldn't want to leave the Tesla wall charger behind if it was still working. However the new occupant would have another way to charge their EV (or run an oven
). So we are planning on also installing a a NEMA 14-50 set up? It would reside right next to the Tesla dedicated charger as a back up. (Pity we couldn't use the NEMA 14-50 Dedicated Tesla plug in wall charger - Sold Out and way too expensive).
One question I was asked at work by a few who have M3's was why not just do a NEMA 14-50 and just use the supplied cord to attach it? My answer was simply that I got a really insane deal on the wall charger and the electrician is not charging anything extra to do the additional installation, so why not? Additionally, it adds an extra layer of calmness for me knowing that if the Tesla charger breaks down I have something else to fall back on (as long as there's electricity of course).
Would love to hear the thoughts of others on doing this and/or what you have set up at home.
I am awaiting my LR AWD M3. So far we are preparing for the car by installing a home charging setup. A friend of mine has agreed to sell me a Tesla wall charger for a very good price since he has an extra one and I have a construction electrician coming by this weekend to set up our box. We have talked about putting in an 80 amp breaker, but he will look at our home and probably lock it down to 60 amps, which would probably mean only 40-45 amps available (since according to him, we never go full throttle on the circuit).
We discussed adding a back up plan in the event that the device fails. He agreed that this would be a very good idea, not only for redundancy in the event that the device fails, but especially if we moved. I wouldn't want to leave the Tesla wall charger behind if it was still working. However the new occupant would have another way to charge their EV (or run an oven
). So we are planning on also installing a a NEMA 14-50 set up? It would reside right next to the Tesla dedicated charger as a back up. (Pity we couldn't use the NEMA 14-50 Dedicated Tesla plug in wall charger - Sold Out and way too expensive). One question I was asked at work by a few who have M3's was why not just do a NEMA 14-50 and just use the supplied cord to attach it? My answer was simply that I got a really insane deal on the wall charger and the electrician is not charging anything extra to do the additional installation, so why not? Additionally, it adds an extra layer of calmness for me knowing that if the Tesla charger breaks down I have something else to fall back on (as long as there's electricity of course
). Would love to hear the thoughts of others on doing this and/or what you have set up at home.