Cable for Level 2 charging?

You’ll need to get a level-2 EVSE. I’ve seen some portable ones on Amazon, but I don’t have any personal experience with them.

A poorly-researched, quasi-arbitrary example:

Make sure you get one with the right kind of plug...

 

and the voltage parameters include 208v

 

(Dang, why does it keep giving me an unsupported-media URL when I try to paste in an Amazon web page URL?!)

 

Looks like a NEMA L15-20, you want an EVSE (or adapter?) That fits it.

 

The Duosaida that @mr88cet mentioned is offered with several different connectors. I have one to fit my dryer outlet.

 

Build your own conversion cable for ~$25 dollars & use your OE Toyota EVSE unit for L2 charging, you'll get a full charge at work in about 2 1/2 hours.

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Rob43

 

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I need to stress that 208 volt outlets in the US are three phase, no EVSE is set up for three phase electricity:

Level 1 is 120 single phase
Level 2 is 240 single phase
Level 3 was supposed to be three phase but was dropped as an idea.

If you find an electrician who can make it work, expect 15% slower charging, But I would not mess with converting my employers three phase to single phase without their knowledge!

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Possible if you know how. Pretty iffy on the electrical code. I don't have time to look it up. But it won't charge quite as quickly at 208 as at 240.

 

This is the first reference to a " Non Locking" NEMA 6-30P, is this what you have at your home ? Or did you omit the "L" ?


Rob43

 

I'm very confused - we've charged our Tesla at plenty of commercial EVSEs with standard J1772 plugs that are three-phase. The most common (until a couple years ago) was a 208V/30A ChargePoint. We've charged our Prime at (at least) a couple of these.

 

a commercial charger designed to be three phase, will not use a plug, and will only send single phase to any one car.

 

The receptacle in the photograph is labeled L15-20. Count the poles: four, 3 hot legs (3 phase) plus ground.

I'd contact Brad at BSA Electronics (the Duosida guy) and ask if his $210 portable charging station will work with 208 volts. If so, he can connect an L15-20 plug across just one phase (any two hot wires) to give single phase 208. I don't think this minor 16 amp imbalance will upset the 3 phase system. Dostar Duosida 16A 3.84kW Portable Charging Station - EVSE D25-16A – BSA Electronics

"commercial EVSEs with standard J1772 plugs that are three-phase" Huh? the J1772 connector has five pins. Two hot legs, a ground leg, a signal leg (the car's charger communicates with the EVSE's controller), and a proximity pin that tells the system whether the connector is plugged in.

 

That Duosida works great and is a good value. I have been using it daily fortwo years, now.

 

Three phase systems supply single phase loads all the time. Our factories were all 480V 3 phase, but the lights were 277V single phase. Our radio station in Honduras was 208V 3 phase. But all our loads were single phase. On those rare occasions when the utility managed to keep it above 190-200V, even the 220V stuff worked well. We had LOTS of line conditioners since that didn't happen often. LOL! You do want to try to keep all those single phase loads evenly distributed across the system, though.

 

L6-30 is single phase.