If your wallet was causing you back pain from being too thick and causing you to sit unevenly, it will remove $500 from it, thinning it out.
Well, if you are planning on a 60A circuit, you actually can't use that with a receptacle and adapter and mobile charge cable. Tesla only sells adapters for outlet types up to the 50A ones, like 6-50 or 14-50. You're not allowed to have those on 60A breakers/circuits. So if you want it to be a 60A circuit, you would need to get some other kind of connector--whether from Tesla or some other brand--to make use of that higher current.
Yes, to make use of the higher current.
Right, not really necessary to take it with you daily, but for out of town trips, that's fine. But even with that, if your trip is Supercharger-covered interstate and between pretty decent sized cities with plenty of charging points, bringing the cable still probably won't matter.
Yes--for outdoor installations I definitely recommend it, since it's made to be weather sealed for that.
Sheesh--I had never heard of enclosure ratings that looked like IP55, so I had to do some searching to see what that was. I was only familiar with the ones that looked like 4 or 3R or 3S, etc, which seemed to be some different type of system.
Oh, well, that may not be wrong. You found a reference and I found a reference, and they say different things. Mine was a Wikipedia page, so go figure how accurate that is. I thought this was more established, but apparently it's not an exact science. From your page:
Heh, yeah! That really is a great, advantageous, useful, desirable feature that a lot of people need
...which is why it was such a moronic decision for Tesla to replace the Gen2 with the Gen3 wall connector that is still missing that functionality!
There are regular reports of melted 14-50 sockets due to poor connection. A hard wired socket is more reliable.
If your wallet was causing you back pain from being too thick and causing you to sit unevenly, it will remove $500 from it, thinning it out.
...which almost no one needs and I would never recommend and is not being compared here in this thread.
Help a newbie out here. So if you have two Gen2's from the same circuit, they basically communicate with each other to not overload the breaker?
Yes. We have 3 load-balanced gen 2 wall connectors. Each of them could individually charge a car at up to 80 amps (if we had an older Model S) on our 100 amp circuit. Our current Teslas can only charge at 48 amps each. If we charge one car, it charges at 48 amps. If we charge two cars simultaneously, the 80 amps is split 50/50 and each car gets 40 amps. If we charge three cars at once, they each get ~27 amps. As each car finishes charging, the amps are reallocated to the cars that are still charging.
