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

[Paul Wallace]

Justin, 
the 6-20 outlet can sustain 240vac at 16 amps, it is rated to 20 amps, but won't sustain that. You need a 12Awg cord with the 6-20 plug on the end. I suggest that you get something like an Open EVSE: [ https://www.openevse.com/ | https://www.openevse.com/ ] . I have 2 of them and they work quite well for me. They have the ability to adjust the maximum input current so you could use an SOW type flexible cord with the 6-20 plug, set the current correctly, and use the 6-20 outlet. Later, when you get a higher power outlet you can switch out the EVSE input cable to support the full 11KW capability of the car AC charger. On the 6-20 you will be charging at a maximum of about 3.8kw. 

regards, 
Paul 


From: "Justin" <justinclose at comcast.net> 
To: "Corvallis EV CLub" <Caevlist at caevclub.org> 
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2026 10:55:19 AM 
Subject: [Caevlist] Bought an EV! Need a home charger... 

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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