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There are calculators online that you can use or the app my sparky used. Yours should have done that before adding loads but like my aircon installers just stuck the aircon onto a power circuit and figured it would be fine. I guess that is right since I am now not running 10A of heater all the time in the room, just 3.something of aircon instead (except when my feet are cold)
Your other big household load will be the oven,
So on a midwinter evening with a roast in the oven, the jug on for coffee, the clothes dryer running and the car charging you will be getting close to 60 amps
The legality of a connection isn't determined by when you say you will use it, there are tables in the appropriate AS (3000 I think) that a sparky actually doing their job right will add up to see if they can add the load to your board.
The shift to more efficient heating and lighting doesn't seem to have been taken into account with the loading figure tables for power sockets. Also I went crazy with this place with sockets everywhere, which count, whereas if I had put 1 per room it would be way lower loading, despite the fact that I would be running the same amount of stuff just with more powerstrips and extension cords.
Hi Guys
Bought a 2016 Tekna 30kw on Saturday Very impressed with it. Drove from Auckland to Hamilton with plenty to spare. The maps/ Navigation are set to England and only have European countries. This locks you out of many of the features of the car. I intend to go back to the dealer to discuss
this. Any advice would be welcome. Very impressed with the assistance and comments made on this site regarding EVs
Cheers
Hi Guys
Bought a 2016 Tekna 30kw on Saturday Very impressed with it. Drove from Auckland to Hamilton with plenty to spare. The maps/ Navigation are set to England and only have European countries. This locks you out of many of the features of the car. I intend to go back to the dealer to discuss
this. Any advice would be welcome. Very impressed with the assistance and comments made on this site regarding EVs
Cheers
gulfa:Hi Guys
Bought a 2016 Tekna 30kw on Saturday Very impressed with it. Drove from Auckland to Hamilton with plenty to spare. The maps/ Navigation are set to England and only have European countries. This locks you out of many of the features of the car. I intend to go back to the dealer to discuss
this. Any advice would be welcome. Very impressed with the assistance and comments made on this site regarding EVs
Cheers
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Thanks Linux Lover
AutoLink Auckland
Great to deal with. I have got everything sorted apart from the Navigation. USB setup was a piece of cake. I guess I will keep using Waze app for my phone, which is very good. At the moment using the WEL Charger in TeRapa Hope to have my charger installed in my
garage in the next couple of days. Your comments have been helpful.
Quick charge to 80% in about twenty minutes. Looks like I will get around the 180kms driving normally keeping to speed limit and normal traffic flows
Apparently Clarion are Head unit providers according to the manual. I have been searching their site They do have a
maps section with a download But I want to check it out thoroughly as it is quite expensive $100.00 American. I emailing them
Cheers
gulfa:
Thanks Linux Lover
AutoLink Auckland
Great to deal with. I have got everything sorted apart from the Navigation. USB setup was a piece of cake. I guess I will keep using Waze app for my phone, which is very good. At the moment using the WEL Charger in TeRapa Hope to have my charger installed in my
garage in the next couple of days. Your comments have been helpful.
Quick charge to 80% in about twenty minutes. Looks like I will get around the 180kms driving normally keeping to speed limit and normal traffic flows
Apparently Clarion are Head unit providers according to the manual. I have been searching their site They do have a
maps section with a download But I want to check it out thoroughly as it is quite expensive $100.00 American. I emailing them
Cheers
I bought the additional "Spark" (from Sweden) cable that lets me charge from any 10amp 3112 domestic power point. You can also get one from Juicepoint. They are $800-$1000 each as we are a small market, but they give you the security of being able to charge your LEAF anywhere that has a normal household powerpoint. I bought one.
What charger are you getting installed in your garage? :-)
Also.....did you buy the grey 30kw LEAF? Henry showed that one to me. :-)
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Caravan port type. Are you suggesting other types? What the advice on only charging to 80% on a fast charge (Wel Enerrgy)
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gulfa:
The Grey One Yes
Caravan port type. Are you suggesting other types? What the advice on only charging to 80% on a fast charge (Wel Enerrgy)
Cheers
Caravan port type is fine. I have one.
But I also have a separate cable that can plug in anywhere away from home.
Here's a photo....though I didn't take a photo of the side that shows the ability to select 6amps, 10amps or 16amps. ( You would NEVER do 16amps through a normal household power point. The circuit breaker would trip instantly and if it didn't you'd call the fire department asap). I keep it locked on 10amp. 6amp is useful if the power point at the location already has something drawing power that you aren't able to turn off for whatever reason. But it charges very slowly.
This charger lets you charge at 10amp....about 60% of the speed of your intended 16amp outlet. But 10amp is better than nothing if you find yourself away from home with less power than you thought. It adds about 9%-10% of battery per hour. Enough to be useful in an hour or two (two hours charge would give you about 16% -18% - so about 25km-30km) unless you REALLY screwed up your travel plans. :-) This cable is energy insurance. Autolink sold it to me for $1000. I would not be without it.
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Here's a photo....though I didn't take a photo of the side that shows the ability to select 6amps, 10amps or 16amps. ( You would NEVER do 16amps through a normal household power point. The circuit breaker would trip instantly and if it didn't you'd call the fire department asap). I keep it locked on 10amp. 6amp is useful if the power point at the location already has something drawing power that you aren't able to turn off for whatever reason. But it charges very slowly.
Circuit breaker would not trip as power circuits are normally protected at 16 or 20 amps - sometimes even 25/27A breakers (not too sure on the legality of that but have seen it)
The weakest point would be that travel adapter that is on the charger, a standard wall outlet will survive that overload for quite sometime without damage. Think of the number of people that use a double adapter for their heater because the cutout in the 4 way power strip keeps tripping.
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