[Caevlist] Bought an EV! Need a home charger...

[Justin]

My wife and I finally bit the bullet and bought an EV!  We are 
excited...  Hyundai 2023 Ioniq 5 SEL.  Really liking the car.

But now I need to work on all the ancillary stuff... most notably 
charging at home.  It came with a 120v Level 1 charger...  it looked 
like it was working in our first attempt at using it, but it later 
tripped the GFCI outlet, which cause the rest of the garage circuit to 
cut out, of course.  There is a freezer on that same circuit - don't 
want to have that go out!  :)  (Not sure if it is the charger, the car, 
or the freezer... if the freezer kicked on while charging, it seems like 
it would have tripped the breaker, not the GFCI.  Car and outlet are all 
inside the garage, no moisture or water in the neighborhood.)

I have a NEMA 6-20 outlet that I was planning on using in the short 
term... but no adapter for the current charge cable (which is standard 
3-prong 120v, NEMA 5-15 or 5-20).  Are there places locally to source an 
adapter?

And then I plan on installing a Level 2 charger in the (near?) future.  
I saw some Eaton ones on Facebook... person had stacks of them, new in 
box.  These appear to be more commercially oriented - but seem like they 
could work in a home setting.

Saw a Juicebox one, for fairly cheap - but that company went out of 
business (in the US).  There seems to be an after-market OpenSource kit 
you can buy (for certain Juiceboxes anyway - not sure it would fit on 
this particular model).

I hope to (again, at some point in the future) supply this via solar 
panels, also.  Do I need to take that into account when settling on a 
charger?  Or are all those issues handled by upstream equipment?



Thanks,

*-- Justin*


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