Tesla Wall Connector vs. NEMA 15-40

welcome to crosstalk solutions my name is Chris and today we are going to test the Tesla

wall

connector

versus a NEMA 15 40 outlet which one will give you the most charging performance for your money to find out so here we have the Tesla

wall

connector

Now, this thing is a way to quickly charge your car at home. It works at several different amperage levels depending on the type of car you have. The recommended amperage level for my Tesla Model 3 was 60 amps so that's what I use when I installed this, we put in a 60 amp breaker for the wall connector so this Tesla wall connector is not cheap , it costs 500 dollars for this unit and also, if you are like me and don't want to touch electricity, you also have to hire an electrician to install it.

Now we'll go over all the costs to install this, including electrician costs, a little later in the video. There is also a great debate. on whether or not the Tesla wall connector is worth it compared to a 50 amp NEMA 15 40 circuit or a 50M outlet. Now I got a ton of comments on my first impressions video from people saying you don't need the wall connector, it's a waste. Just put the money in a NEMA 15 40 outlet, it will be much cheaper and then you can use the mobile connector that comes with Tesla to charge your car instead of having a dedicated wall connector, so for the purposes of this video, Follow I went ahead and did both so I installed a NEMA 1540 here on a 50 amp circuit and then of course the wall connector was installed on a 60 amp circuit and we're going to test the load capacity of both.

Also mention that if you are lucky enough to live near one of these Tesla super charging stations and if you have free unlimited super charging on your Tesla, this is an absolutely viable option to charge your car on a regular basis, in my case . This is the closest Tesla super charging station to me, it's about a 45 minute drive up the coast here in Lincoln City Oregon, so Tesla super charging stations can fully charge your car in about 60 to 90 minutes and as you can see here, I'm getting about 230 three 234 miles of charge per hour plugged into this super charging station.

Now I'm the only one here at the moment so I'm making the most of this thing and if I was in a pinch and I really had to charge the car quickly. In fact, it could take me 45 minutes to get here, charge the car, and then get back home in much less time than it would take me to charge my car at home if I were just using a standard. 120-volt outlet, so if you live within five to 10 minutes of one of these super charging stations, it's absolutely a viable option for you; It's like going to the gas station you know once or twice a week with a normal internal combustion engine. car, but also keep in mind that if you don't have the unlimited supercharging, you will have to pay.

I'm not sure exactly what those costs are, but there will be a cost associated, given that the supercharger location is too far away. so it's not a viable option for me to go there and charge all the time. You have the option of using the Tesla mobile connector. Now this mobile connector comes with every Tesla car or you can buy an additional one for $300 for each mobile connector to come with. With two plugs, one is the standard 120 volt plug and the other is the NEMA 15 40 240 volt plug. If you are using the standard 120-volt plug with the mobile connector, the Tesla charges at between 4 and 5 miles per hour. which is tremendously slow.

I like to keep my car at 100 to 200 miles of charge for daily use only, so charging this from 100 to 200 miles takes about 20 hours, so that's not feasible if you're a commuter and using your car a lot if you have very little charge and you only have a few hours before you have to go out again, this is just not going to be enough, so let's start with the Tesla wall connector, but before we continue. For proof, let's take a look at what comes in the box. When you receive this, the first thing you will notice is that it is very obvious what is inside this box.

That's exactly how it came to me. There was no outer box. Keep this in mind, if you live somewhere where this might be on your doorstep, maybe you have someone sitting there ready to take this inside as soon as they deliver it, get rid of that, okay, so what we have here? We have a lot. of various screws it looks like some washers or caps for some of the holes that are on the tehsil wall connector we have what looks like a mounting plate then we have this section it looks like this is probably the bottom cap here is where or maybe this is the back, yeah, this looks like the back, so you've got a bunch of places where you could potentially put holes in this to run cables through and then you've got your big chunky.

I want to join in, this is oh for for AWG connections, okay, here's the wall connector, there we go, that looks beautiful, remove the beautiful plastic, now on the side we have a reset button, it looks like we have a place to ground this right here and that's really all there is is it's connected to the piece that goes inside your car right there, and then when it's hanging on the wall, it fits perfectly there, so pull it up and out and there you have it. with the Tesla wall connector I get about 40 to 44 miles per hour charging and it draws 48 amps from the 60 amp circuit, so now let's switch to the NEMA 1540 and see what it looks like with the NEMA 1540 I.

I'm getting about 28 miles per hour of charging and now it is drawing 32 amps from the 50 amp circuit, in other words if you want to talk about the total time to charge the car with the Tesla wall connector almost completely drained the entire time. to get completely full it would take about seven hours with the NEMA 1540 to go from zero to full it would take about 11 hours to sum up all the different charging options the 120 volt mobile connector charges it at four to five miles per hour the NEMA 15 40 The 50 amp circuit charges at about 28 miles per hour, the wall connector charges at about 44 or I would say 40 to 44 miles per hour and then the Tesla supercharging stations charge it between 220 and 245 miles per hour at minus the one I visited in terms of cost, really the only difference is the cost difference between the Tesla wall connector and the NEMA 15 40 outlet, everything else will be more or less the same, so the electricians will work on the miscellaneous parts , etc.

Same thing whichever route you go, in my case I didn't have to upgrade my breaker box and I had plenty of room left for both, you know, the 160 amp circuit for the wall connector and the 150 amp circuit for NEMA 15 .40, so it was just the cost of those breakers to run a wire from one side of my garage to the other and then connect it all to the equipment. I would estimate it if you were just doing the wall connector or the NEMA, it would probably be between three and five hundred dollars for the electrician and then the cost of the materials, so the cost of the NEMA 15 40 plug is about 10 dollars versus the cost of the Tesla wall connector of about 500, so in total, the installation of the Tesla wall connector will probably cost you between 900 and 1100 dollars, compared to the NEMA 15 40, which will cost you between 400 and 600 dollars, since the 50 amp NEMA 15 40 circuit charges at approximately 60% of the Tesla wall charger capacity. that will be perfectly fine for most people if you have a commute and you bring your car home and plug it in at night and unplug it in the morning there will be enough power plugged in overnight to charge it again. to where you need it to be so why then or how would you justify the cost of testing the wall connector?

And for me, there's really only three reasons: Number one, it's just a status symbol. I mean, let's face it, it's nice to have this cool. Looking at some Tesla hanging in your garage here, the second reason you might want one of these is basically just for looks and convenience, if you have a good garage. Well, unlike me, you can see that I have an unfinished garage. I literally cut this piece of plywood. To put it on the wall for the Tesla wall connector, if you have a well-finished garage, this will look much better and be much more convenient than having the mobile connector hanging loose and you know, dangling. with this long cable all around, if that doesn't matter to you then it's not a big deal and the final reason why you might want to go for the Tesla wall connector is if you always want to keep your mobile connector in your car, so there may be cases where it's like an emergency device that you have to plug in, you have to get some power somewhere and maybe mobile jacks are the only way you're going to be able to do that, so having this in the car is a feature nice security, in that case you would want to do it or you would have to buy a second moving connector for your NEMA 1540 plug and the moving connector costs $300 so at that point you might as well spend the extra 200. money and get the wall connector, so there you have it, take a look at the Tesla wall connector versus the NEMA 15 40 50 amp circuit.

If you have any comments or questions, please write them in the comments below and tell me what you would do. What would you prefer to these two articles? Me personally, of course, I'm going to use the Tesla Walk because I already bought it and it's installed here, so I'm going to take advantage of the faster charging of this wall connector and I'm just going to turn off my name's circuit breaker at 15:40 and that's it. You know, if I ever move out of this house, I can take the wall jack with me and the next owner of the house still has a nice 240 volt circuit that they can use if they have an electric car, okay, that's it.

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