<div dir="ltr">>Lower charge rates are more efficient both for the car's battery and the solar/ battery system<div>I don't get that. Our house battery is full at about 11 a.m., so we have about four hours to charge the car. During that time we make about 6KW, so the car uses 5KW of that and charges up. If I went to the 120V charger, I would be charging all day and it still would not be charged.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:05 PM Ray <<a href="mailto:ray@solarray.com">ray@solarray.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Also have a customer with a Leaf that can charge from a dual GVFX
system. He uses the 120 vac charger. Lower charge rates are more
efficient both for the car's battery and the solar/ battery
system, so I recommend sticking to the 120 vac chargers if
possible.<br>
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Remote Solar
303 505-8760</pre>
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<div dir="auto">I was trying to charge a Nissan Leaf with a ? Iam
not sure but two VFX i think old age.. i mostly rember having
the problem. I think the car harger had a max of 2kw</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 3:41 PM
Jay <<a href="mailto:jay.peltz@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer
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<div dir="ltr">I\u2019ve got offgrid 2 clients and they have no
issues. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">They each have a Bolt and can choose the
charging rate. They can run it at either power. But only
use higher power when they have lots of sun. </div>
<div dir="ltr">Older Stacked vfx and Schneider xw, no
issues. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">I would expect the SW to work, however it\u2019s
an odd beast as it\u2019s waveform steps change with load. More
load, more steps, therefor cleaner so maybe at lower
charge rate it\u2019s not clean enough. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">As to your issue it could be power factor
Being really poor. </div>
<div dir="ltr">Can you tell us what inverter, yea 5 years
ago is a long time. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Peltz power. </div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jun 7, 2020, at 11:53 AM,
Darryl Thayer <<a href="mailto:darylsolar1@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">darylsolar1@gmail.com</a>>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">I think you said it
well, about 5 years ago I tried to charge a car from
an off-grid system. I did not record my events but
the inverter had twice the power of the level two
charger, yet the inverter would get hot and trip
out. I was told a ferroresonant transformer may
help, and it might be different with different
cars. However, I was warned the ferroresonant was
to stop input wave problems from arriving at the
output not to prevent the output wave problems
showing up on the input. The off-grid customer
gave up.</div>
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at 6:36 AM Hilton Dier III <<a href="mailto:hiltondier@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The
issue with EV chargers is that they create a
lot of reactive power. Think of it as "slosh"
in the waveform. That means that charging at
2,000 watts sloshes a lot more than 2kW
through the cable, plug, outlet, and from the
inverter. If you've got a reasonably good
sinewave inverter the charger will like it
fine. However, the inverter might not like the
charger if you cut things too close. Make sure
to have a lot of top end left in your
inverter. Always use a transformer based
inverter. The SW series has a big chunk of
metal in it, so that's good. At 120V the Bolt
will only draw 1440 watts max.<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">An
aftermarket Bolt 240V charger can draw up to
32 amps. That's 7.7 kW, so too big for an SW.
Treat it more like 40 amps. The OEM 120/240
EVSE (smart charging cord) that comes with the
car can draw 8 or 12 amps at 120V or 12 at
240V. Assume that the 8 amps is really 12 and
the 12 is really 15 or a bit more. I have seen
15 amp plugs and outlets with the hot prong
melting plastic around it. The plug on the OEM
EVSE is 20A rated but make sure your outlet is
as well.</font><br>
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Missisquoi River Hydro
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