What You Don't Know about Home Charging a Model Y

Hello, thanks for watching this video. I'll tell you how you can set up

charging

at

home

for your new Tesla or other electric vehicle, or maybe you're wondering how to set up

charging

before you decide to buy a car. difficult, it's not, you set it up, charge your cars at night while you're at

home

and when you leave in the morning, your car is fully charged and you drive all day. It is very simple compared to some of the other forms of fossil fuels. making stuff I'll be happy to show you everything I've made let's take a look so 240 volts usually comes from a pole or underground or through a transformer and comes into your house so this is the typical residential circuit breaker 200 amps.

On the panel you can see that the circuit breakers control the power to each of the circuits and this is where you get the power to charge your car, so this is your standard 120 volt wall outlet, it's good for about 2500 watts of power. power and will charge your car. At an incredible 4 miles per hour charge, you plug in your cell phone connector, so this is a 240 volt, 50 amp NEMA 1450 circuit. Now it doesn't mean much to you, maybe with a higher voltage and higher current of 50 amps and 240 volts giving us about 11,000 watts of power with this connection.

It's actually a good connection to charge your car. Your car will charge faster at an outlet like this. This is the mobile connector charging case that comes with your Tesla. Inside is the mobile connector. The mobile jack is the device that connects the AC sources to charge your car, so it comes with an adapter, it's a 120 volt adapter, if you're here in North America, if you're in Europe, it comes with a shuku, it has another side which connects directly to the actual mobile connector, these adapters fit and adapt the mobile connector to your car and your car of course has the standard connector, if you are in Europe you will have a type 2 connector here that connects to your car if We are in Europe, but in North America we have the standard 120 volt plug and here we have the Tesla connector.

So how hard is it to plug it into the wall? Very simple, you take it, insert it into the socket and make sure the lights come on. green and you are ready to plug this into your car now, plus you can buy additional adapters and I bought this adapter. This is a 1450 plug, 240 volts, 50 amps, it also plugs directly into the mobile jack allowing me to plug it in. I connect it to a higher power circuit in my garage or while traveling, there are several adapters available in the Tesla store, they are available online, you buy them online and they cost 35 dollars each.

Now there is an extra piece that comes with this. and it's this adapter, this adapter adapts the tesla connector to a level two j 1772 connector and you'll find these chargers in supermarkets and around, they weigh between three and seven kilowatts, you plug it in here and you plug it into the car however you need. read the manual and make sure you connect this to the car first and then the j1772, once it starts charging tesla blocks the connection so this will actually lock the adapter in the car; however, your j1772 may or may not lock up here and it should, but if you never heat it up, so it's as simple as having this adapter, okay, let's charge the car with 120 volts AC.

I've installed the appropriate adapter here on the mobile connector and we're going to plug it back in. Put it in carefully. just on the back and now we're in green, okay, I've got the standard looking plug end of the mobile connector, just like

what

we would see on the other Tesla connectors. I press the button at the top, the mobile opens, I insert it like this. the rest of us have some negotiations in blue and now we are in green and now we are charging so now we are charging from a 124 volt circuit it is plugged in using the mobile connector as you can see it provides a whopping four miles per hour of charge This may generally be fine for your daily commute, you may not want to install a larger 240 volt circuit or high power wall charger.

Either way, it will give you four miles for every hour of charging. Plugs directly into a 120-volt outlet. They are available everywhere, most homes have these and in the end it is easy to make. One of the benefits of the Mobile Connector is that it has the 120-volt plug, just like you have at home, so no matter where you drive, you can always pull out your Mobile Connector, plug it in, and add range to your car, even if it's at least four miles per hour. You can add some reach now on a mobile connector. It is limited to 12 amps.

The 12 amps are limited here because being a continuous duty circuit it has a limit of 12 amps, but let's say you connect it to a circuit that maybe has other things connected to it, you can modify the charging current here using the selector. charging current up to

what

ever current you want, but as you can see now we're at two miles per hour of charging, but if that's all the current you can draw from a given outlet, that's fine, at least you get two miles per hour of charging . Here are the 240 plugs, you can see they are much larger than the 120 volt plug.

You can see the back end attaches to the mobile connector and you plug it in and they connect together. Now you are ready to plug it in. Be very careful with this circuit. This circuit has much more power than the standard wall connection in your home. of 120 volts when you plug it in, the best way is to turn off the circuit breaker, but if you are an adult, have some experience and are very careful not to hurt yourself, you can carefully keep your fingers away from it, plug it in. Here to plug this in, my recommendation is to use your hand, keep your fingers away, put your palm on it and push hard and it will crash into the wall.

Okay, we are currently connected with 240 volts to the mobile connector. drawing 32 amps because that is the power limit of the mobile connector 246 volts from the wall and we are charging 26 27 miles per hour of charging if on a trip you take your mobile connector and plug it into, say, a dryer outlet, it's easy task just use the charging current limit here and lower it to say whatever the circuit breaker is minus 20 percent for continuous duty and you will notice that the car will change its charging current now to 24 amps and you will

know

that we are just charging it. 19 or 20 miles per hour, this is usually not a problem since you are going to charge overnight, the last thing you want to do is overload the breaker and open it and then your car will stop charging, so make sure you set your current to whatever be the circuit breaker if it is a 30 amp circuit breaker I recommend 80 of that the circuit will stay on all night and continue so this is the Tesla version 2 wall connector it is designed to supply power to the car.

The battery can then be charged. The car's on-board charger regulates the amount of energy. All the wall connector does is communicate with the car to make sure it is properly connected to the car. There are two connections, the heavy connections are for the energy to reach. the car, the one in the middle is the ground and the two at the end are for communications with the onboard charger in each of the cars, once I plug it into the car the communications happen between the wall connector and the car, the car then says Hey, I see everything is fine.

Point to the wall connector and the wall connector connects the 240 volts here to the car. The car has a built-in charger and of course it then takes over and charges the battery when the car is at its limit. or full, it will tell the wall jack to disconnect the 240 volts AC that it does and you can leave your car plugged in for months and as the power drains slightly from the battery due to the electronics, it will tell the wall jack what do you need. Turn on the wall jack, then you will plug the power back into the charger that is on board the car, the car will charge, get to the magic spot, tell the wall jack that you have enough and then they will disconnect the 240 from the car, all without you you touch it.

Leave it plugged in if you are going to be away for an extended period of time. These wall connectors can also communicate with each other. You can have up to four wall jacks connected together on a 100 amp circuit and they will share power between them. The 4 and 100 amp circuit communicates with the car how much power is available that the car will charge at that rate if one car stops charging the available power from that car's wall connector is now distributed among the remaining three and so on, a Pretty ingenious system. This is the Tesla version three wall connector, it also fits flush to the wall and has room to hang the cable, but there are a couple of differences between this new wall connector, so this new wall connector will charge a maximum of 50 amps, that's fine.

Because all Tesla cars now charge at a maximum of 50 amps, one of the benefits is also that if you look at the difference in the cable, you will notice that the cable is about half of what the non-wall connector version has. 2. Since you have to charge at 80 amps, it charges at 50, so the cable is much more manageable instead of a hard wire connection connecting these wall jacks to share power. This white one will now do it over Wi-Fi and you can have four of These versions three hook up in parallel and will also share power with a software update.

It has an 18 foot cord. This is a 24 foot cable. The wall jack gives us 40 miles per hour on my

model

3. I'll get 44 miles per hour. hour, which is pretty substantial, it's significantly more than the mobile jack because it's 48 amps versus 32 amps, so you're like, well, why do I need the wall jack instead of just using the mobile jack? For the simple reason that if you come home one day and need to charge faster having extra power available to charge faster will allow you to charge up and down to do whatever errands you need to do quickly if all you are doing is spending the night without problems, you can still use the wall jack or mobile phone jack, but having it directly on the wall where you unplug it, plug it into the car makes it much more convenient to use with the wall jack, of course you can adjust the current, if I want to set it to 35 amps, you can see that adjusts the usage drops to 35 and drops us down to 29 miles per hour charging.

Scheduling also works the same way. You can set the schedule on the wall connector. You can also choose to schedule your upload. Press the programming button here and you will have several options. start charging at a certain time or you specify what your departure time is and the car will start charging on its own to reach the power limit or the charge limit that you previously set, so thank you very much for making it this far in the video If I haven't answered all your questions, please write them in the comment. I would appreciate it if you gave me a like and I would appreciate it if you subscribed to the channel.

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