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Wall Charger Installation
- Thread starter wkramer28451
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Color is a very easy way to tell. If it's white, it's definitely the gen3. The gen1 and 2 ones came in silver or black but never white.
My opinion is use the Tesla recommended electricians.
I live in a condo, it has 4 chargers/connectors installed already. Gen Manager had me contact the electricians that placed those. One came out for walk through but never gave me a quote, the 2nd one never answered my calls/emails. I then contacted 3 electricians from the Tesla recommendation page and they all answered. First one that responded came out and did a walk through in July and they just did the install Monday (timing was my choice). Now I wait for my car.
Tesla recommended 3 of them in my area. One of them gave me outrageous price another one say they will stop by in October -November because they so busy with solar and another one did not respond so I found one on Home Advisor
So the first walk through guy made the obvious recommendation to connect to meter on my garage floor but it was likely twice what I paid. Tesla recommended electrician suggested alternate....here's my WC. Install goes down and across several parking spaces, up through a hole in the floor along large pipe to the submeter on the garage floor above me. Sadly I park my 2003 Corolla next to it. The neighbors must be confused.
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What is the distance from your junction box to wall charger? Is it in the basement? I have a 66 feet distance from basement to garage and quote came for $2500.
My main power supply is on the other side of the wall with the skis. It's about 30 feet total run that you can see. There's 5 feet in the main outdoor cabinet. With that said, I had 3 quotes from different companies ($2100, 1700, 900) and obviously went with the cheapest as they are all well-known companies and it's not exactly rocket science.
Not that I could tell. This is flexible with a metal liner inside. Approved for both indoor and outdoor applications. 6AWG copper.
I just had a Tesla recommended installer quote me 2100. Charger is to be installed 20 ft from Circuit box in my garage. It’s not that much in labor and materials needed, 2100 bucks is outrageous. My charger install at my last house was 900 bucks and was further away from circuit box. WARNING… be sure to get three quotes, make sure one or two are not the Tesla recommend Electricians. 2100is a total rip off For such a simple job. IN KY just outside of Louisville.
Yeah, that's 'way too much. I think I paid $600 or $700 back in 2018, I bought the Gen2 WC myself. Copper hasn't gotten that expensive.
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too much. its a tesla tax. unless your box requires significant upgrades 100a-200a etc.....
I paid $2700 for a 60a with 125" for installation and wall connector installation/commissioning. Plus I had to purchase the tesla wall connector fwiw
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