<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>I have an L2 charger at home which is indeed very convenient for an overnight full-charge after a long day trip. Until you get one for when the need arises, I assume nearby you can find an L3 fast charging station, and have downloaded the PlugShare app so useful for long trips.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Last bit of advice is expect that the 12V battery in the car is only going to last 2 years. When it dies, so does everything in the car including the Start button. It seems the manufacturers install cheap 12V batteries in new cars. I always carry a small portable jump start battery with me. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Best,</div><div>Larry</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Justin" <justinclose@comcast.net><br><b>To: </b>"Charles Bonville" <charlesbonville@comcast.net>, "Shawn Tucker" <shawntucker541@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"caevlist" <Caevlist@caevclub.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, May 26, 2026 4:05:32 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Caevlist] Bought an EV! Need a home charger...<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">Hey all,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the various feedback. All interesting things to think
about.<br>
<br>
• After some further testing, turns out the freezer is on the
kitchen circuit, not the garage. So far, charging has all gone
well, about 20 hours of it.<br>
<br>
• I'll check with PGE (my power company)<br>
<br>
• Interesting point about hardwiring the unit - makes sense.<br>
<br>
• Sticking with something quantity is a good point. Seller of the
Eaton unit was asking $400 for the 32a version... <br>
<br>
• We could live with L1 charging, sure... but I think I like the
flexibility of having an L2 charger. If needed, we wouldn't feel
constrained if we expect to drain-and-full-charge in a single day,
because we would need to do it again the next day. Is it common?
No; but we do periodically go on longer trips, sometimes back to
back. So not having to wait 3 days for it to charge up fully would
be a nice bit of peace-of-mind to have in the back pocket.<br>
<br>
<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
<b>-- Justin</b><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/26/26 10:36, Charles wrote:<br>
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<div> <span style="font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12pt">Which
utility are you with?</span> </div>
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<div class="default-style"> <span style="font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12pt">There may be
EV charger rebates offered by the utility, but only for
certain brands and certain installation conditions (like
hardwired, not plug-in).</span> </div>
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<div class="default-style"> <span style="font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12pt">-Charles</span>
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<div class="default-style"> <span style="font-family:'helvetica';font-size:12pt">(Project
Manager at a solar/battery/evse installer)</span> </div>
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<div> On 05/26/2026 7:35 AM PDT Shawn Tucker
<a href="mailto:shawntucker541@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><shawntucker541@gmail.com></a> wrote: </div>
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<div dir="ltr"> There's a couple things going here.
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<div> 1) You can't charge your EV on the same circuit as your
freezer. The garage outlets are going to be limited to 15 or
20 amps, and the EVSE for the car will pull around 12 amps,
leaving essentially nothing left on the circuit for
additional loads. I learned that my garage circuit is also
shared with my hallway circuit when I was charging on 120v
and tried to vacuum at the same time. Popped the circuit. </div>
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<div> 2) your freezer should be on its own, separate, non-GFCI
circuit. Freezers can often trip GFCI circuits, so it's best
to have them on a separate single circuit that isn't GFCI.
It's (normally, often) allowed as the plug is usually behind
the unit, not used by anything else, and a single outlet for
the freezer only so exception to the "everything in the
garage needs to be GFCI". </div>
<div> </div>
<div> 3) HARD WIRE your L2 EVSE. Period. The NEMA 14-50 plugs
can all too often be the cause of melting or fires with
EVSEs. Whatever you get, hardwire it. </div>
<div> </div>
<div> 4) When you get the EVSE installed, use an electrician,
and have the electrician install a second circuit for the
freezer. Win-win. </div>
</div>
<br>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr"> On Mon, May 25, 2026 at
11:01 AM Justin <<a href="mailto:justinclose@comcast.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">justinclose@comcast.net</a>>
wrote: </div>
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<div> My wife and I finally bit the bullet and bought an
EV! We are excited... Hyundai 2023 Ioniq 5 SEL. Really
liking the car. <br>
<br>
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.) <br>
<br>
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? <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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). <br>
<br>
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? <br>
<br>
<br>
<div> <br>
Thanks, <br>
<br>
<strong>-- Justin</strong></div>
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