I bought a Tesla Model S Gen 2 Charger - Now What?

The only thing standing between you and death is a bit of gravity



Screw that down, or stop "teaching" sloppy safety practice.

It's a bit misleading, what you're "teaching" here on the AC side.

In the US, we use a split phase, earth referenced, power system to homes.

That Tesla charger is NOT connected directly to the service panel breaker as you say, and as you have your corded connection now going to a non-GFCI, indoors range/dryer plug (yikes!). With the weight of the charger making your ground connection 😬

There's an EVSE in between the charger and plug that limits the charger current draw and that detects ground faults. You have none of that.

Charge your car in the rain on a dryer circuit without an EVSE, be the earth connection, and you're dead. You fail to mention the EVSE and a GFCI being mandatory to run this box in a garage or damp/wet place. You fail to mention that the charger needs to be set to pull maximum current of 8A in the absence of an EVSE, yet has to be on a GFCI circuit, not an ordinary breaker. Code also requires, iirc, vehicle charger plugs to be dedicated circuits for vehicle charging, not shared with your wife's clothes dryer.

In fact, you've gone to lengths to fuse (I assume that's the block you have on the DC side, though you infer with the prior post that you put an AC breaker there) the output, but have done nothing to keep from toasting the plug/socket on the input side, or from frying yourself by failing to put the charger on a GFCI circuit.

I may come across as nitpicking or as a curmudgeon (at my age, both expected and a right), but you are putting yourself on the high horse of teaching and being knowledgeable in the eyes of everyone tiring of $4/gallon gas prices(which is why the high influx of new members) yet the things you are showing, omitting, and teaching are very dangerous, can kill someone, and expose yourself to a huge lawsuit if someone or something gets cooked.

No harm in running things up the flagpole here for feedback, though. What you're doing is good stuff, but it also is very naive and possibly negligent in some areas. You have my feedback, hopefully will get some from others, then go back, redo, THEN make a video.

You need to watch what you post; tentative is irrelevant.

You've positioned yourself as an authority, an educator, "this is how to do it" - monkey see, monkey do.

Nobody will continue reading...they will do as you did at that posting point and many will follow the pics vs reading details. You HAVE to assume that.

Omitting information about ground fault safety equipment, yet excruciatingly showing a circuit breaker, and that leaning metal equipment on a ground lug as being good enough is Aramco gold watch material.

If you're going to assume knowledge authority and teach, you carry a responsibility to the ignorant.

You brush it off with excuses vs correcting the postings. An ambulance-chaser's wet dream of potentially deliberate negligence.

Fix it. You can do better. Earlier is better than later because the Internet has memory and propagates material.

It's nice your doing this in the front of the house in the dining room, cuz your wifi reaches any car parked at the curb. Password didn't work...two "m" or three?

With that, I looked it up on OpenInverter:

Connecting to the Web interface
Depending on the version of your Olimex wifi dongle they are "open" or you need a password to connect.

By default you can connect to the network (Acces Point) and browse to: 192.168.4.1

By default all charger kits will have SSID : charger PASSWORD : charger123

Note: Its recommend that you change it. No body wants to drive and have some joker with a phone finding this information and accesing your charger
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Sure enough, you were kidding around and the pw was the default, charger123.

Will wait til 3am before I turn your charger up to 11.