NEMA 14-50 Buying Guide for Tesla EV Charger

So now you're

buying

a Tesla, what do you want to do with home charging? Of course every Tesla comes with a UMC, a universal mobile connector, what it really is, it's not a

charger

because in-car

charger

s are actually an adapter that takes your home power and plugs it into the car and allows your car to is loaded. The fastest charging is to use a 240 volt outlet, which you probably don't have in your garage, so you've probably done some research and seen it. I want to install a NEMA 1450 outlet. Well, there are choices to make here. These are five different NEMA 1450 outlets that are available on Amazon with prices ranging from $8 to $68.

What's the difference? I'll tell you about them soon. Welcome to the useful. Dad TV I'm Chris Hyder, your virtual dad in the cloud and if you're

buying

an electric car you're going to want to plug it in and the cheapest or at least I should say the cheapest way to charge your car at home. It will be using the charger or the UMC that comes with it, you just need to install a 240 volt outlet. Now I'm not going to explain how you install them here, but in this video we'll talk about the different ones. Options Tesla is actually pretty good at giving you information on how to install a charging outlet.

This is the document on the NEMA 1450 plug, so this is a popular plug. There are seven different options, actually eight, that you can connect to the UMC depending on. Which one you plug in determines how fast your car can actually charge. I'll put a link in the description of the video so you can see what it says, but basically it says that for the Model 3 you can go 30 miles per The charge hour rate for the Model S is 23 and for the Model that the model's cables will be the same as those of the Model 3 30 miles per hour there; it doesn't go into any specific branding or recommendations like it just says you need a 50 amp breaker and you need to use six gauge wire and specifically for these outlets you will use six three wire which means there are three conductors inside the wire but that is a separate video.

We will go into an installation, okay, we will take them in order of prices, so the first is the Lebanon, which I bought for seven dollars and eighty-three cents, it is a product from Mexico, the type of cable is to the CU, which means it can support aluminum and copper wire, the wire size is rated between number 10 and number 4. Now remember that with wire gauge, the smaller number is the larger, the thicker wire, so that 10 is actually smaller than the number 4, imagine, but that's the cable entry. on this one it's from the back, it's the only one that comes from the back and the accessory with the cables is screwed on, you will see that the screws actually hold the cables, the contacts are steel, looking closer at them.

You can see their silver, but you can also see that they are kind of half contacts, they don't cover the entire length of the opening for each of those tips and this is the only one that is like that, the rest are full on both sides the depth of the unit is shallow, it's the shallowest, it's 40 millimeters, which is, like I said, much better than all the others, but that's because the cables come out the back, you still need to have a lot of space behind it. so you need a deep box for this type of outing, the weight on this one turned out to be four point four ounces and the rating on Amazon is four point seven stars with one hundred and thirty six reviews many of the reviewers say not to use This with an Eevee is intended for appliances and a $300 dryer is very different than a $50,000 luxury electric vehicle, so if that's the Levitan, next is the interior lights, I bought this one for $10 and $19. cents, the country of origin is China only supports copper cables and the cable size on the device says it is for number 8 wiring, however in the listing it says from number 8 to number 4, the cable entry comes in the lower part, the fixation is carried out using screws, the contacts are made of brass. you can see they are yellow, the depth of the device is 55 millimeters which is much thicker than the Levitan, but that's okay because the cables come from the bottom, the weight is 5.4 ounces so it's a little more heavier than the Levitan and the rating on Amazon is 4.8 stars with 190 reviews.

I want to note that this seems to be very popular with many Tesla owners, judging by the reviews it had many great five star ratings from Tesla owners who said it works well. The next UMC is Eaton. I paid $10 and 49 cents for it. It is made in Mexico and says it supports LCU wiring. The cable size is number 10 for the cable entry in this because it is a box for itself, you can fix it to the wall and bring the cable from the back or you can bring the cable from below. The wires are connected to the terminals with screws that hold the wires.

The contacts, as you can see, are made of steel. The depth of this is 54 millimeters deep, the weight is max 10.1 ounces, but that's understandable because it's much larger and doesn't require a box. The Amazon rating is 4.7 stars with 72 reviews. The only drawback to the Eaton is that the Tesla calls for the ground pin to be on top, you would actually have to hang this upside down to use it with the Tesla um look the next one is walking. I paid $15.99 for this one because it didn't say the country of origin anywhere. but the name on the front is Zion de, which is an electronics company from China, so I guess they are the ones that make this and someone just put their own Hawking brand on it and it is made in China, this says it is good for copper wiring only the size of the cable is from number 10 to number 4 the cable entry comes from below the accessory is with screws the contacts are brass the depth is 53 millimeters the weight is 5.7 ounces and this has 4 .6 stars on Amazon with 62 reviews and the last but not least is the most expensive, which is the Hubble for 68 dollars and eighty-eight cents, that's what I paid for it.

This is the only one of this group that is made in the USA and is good for an LCU wiring runs from number 10 to number 4 the cable entry is from the bottom it is the only one on this list that actually holds the cables without turn a screw against them the contacts are brass the depth is 63 millimeters apart from the Eaton the weight is the heaviest at 9 ounces, which is more than double that of the Levitan. The Amazon rating is 4.4 stars with only 26 reviews. I was very surprised by the low rating of 4.4 which is the lowest of the bunch and only 26 reviews are the rating itself due to the fact that there are so few reviews you get one bad review and it really skews the results and that is the case here Also, there was a one star review and it was for a shipping issue, so it really had nothing to do with the quality of the product itself, but it's still surprising that there are only 26 reviews since it's actually a product recommended by Tesla by name.

It was in an earlier version of this NEMA 1450

guide

, they took it out now and only tell you to use it in an industrial outlet, but in the original version of this they actually called the Hubble by name, so in summary, and we've seen five of them, I'll count the meals because you really can't. It doesn't seem right to put it the other way around, so I'm going to take it off the table so you're left with basically the bargain basement that is the Levitan and trust me, I love Levitan devices. I use them in my own home. but I don't think I would use it for this purpose.

I just don't have a good feeling about it. It's not heavy enough. I don't want 50 amps going through that device every night while I sleep. The lights are a bargain at ten dollars and 19 cents and it has the most reviews and highest rating of the bunch, so one is a really strong contender if you're pressed for money, but how are you going to use your UMC? You'll simply plug it in and leave it there or unplug it and take it with you every time you use your car. Do you have to confiscate it and will you just leave one in the garage?

Well, if you do, you could consider a cheaper outlet and leave it plugged in, but if you're going to be unplugging it a lot, I don't know, seventy bucks for peace of mind isn't a bad thing, although you could replace this one nine times even if it fails. times for the cost of it, but you would really want to do it and when it fails, what does that mean? But this is definitely top of the line $68 and the way I look at it is if you're spending $50,000 on a leopard car. and you will charge it every night with 50 amps.

I think you want the peace of mind of having a good outlet that it's plugged into. I will put links to each of these outlets in the video description below you can go to Amazon check them all out for yourself read the reviews make your own decision but I have to tell you that for the money I don't think this is bad and if I bought a Tesla, this is the one I would put thanks for looking. I found this video helpful, like it and I'll see you in the next one. Be sure to subscribe and check out our new series, The Living Flip, which is inches and a quarter long.