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<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>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">-Charles</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">(Project Manager at a solar/battery/evse installer)</span>
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On 05/26/2026 7:35 AM PDT Shawn Tucker <shawntucker541@gmail.com> wrote:
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There's a couple things going here.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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4) When you get the EVSE installed, use an electrician, and have the electrician install a second circuit for the freezer. Win-win.
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On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 11:01 AM Justin <<a href="mailto:justinclose@comcast.net">justinclose@comcast.net</a>> wrote:
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My wife and I finally bit the bullet and bought an EV! We are excited... Hyundai 2023 Ioniq 5 SEL. Really liking the car.
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<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.)
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<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?
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<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.
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<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).
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<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?
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<br>Thanks,
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<br><strong>-- Justin</strong>
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