But, likely it will just be easiest to just spend a little more although there will never be an RV outside. So, now still undecided about 14-50 or 6-50 (return my 14-50 adapter to Tesla and get the other one). AND, thinking I knew what I was doing, bought Tesla's 14-50 adaptor as well (and, bought the Leviton 14-50 at Home Depot which I am now returning). In addition, I thought I knew what I wanted, so I already purchased Romex 6/3 so no savings to drop down to 2 wire. I want plenty of room so no interest in 'going minimal'. I am running it through the wall (electric panel is on outside of garage wall and EVSE will be on inside, so very easy to just run it through the wall with the end product looking just like my flush to the wall mounted 120v outlets. It sure seemed like only 2 of 3 parts were needed, but thanks for the mud ring info. If you'd like to keep it minimal you can go down to a 4" box like this:Ĭlick to expand.Wow, how helpful. It's a bit weird and for some reason only uses 2 of the 4 screws.
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In this case the outlet mounts to the cover and then the whole assembly is mounted to the box. The second part you linked is a cover that mounts to 4-3/4" boxes using 2 of the 4 oddly arranged screw holes, use that if the box is going to be outside the wall. The outlet mounts to the mud ring and the cover is just a cover, exactly like your 120V outlets. The first wall plate you linked is for an actual wall, use that if the box is going to be inside the wall and has a mud ring. The box needs to be at least 30 cubic inches and the cover needs to be 2-1/2" for an industrial grade outlet like the Bryant. And a thousand different ways to approximate those dimensions. Yeah, there are two different box sizes: 4" and 4-3/4" and two different cover sizes: 2-1/8" and 2-1/2". After I reset the breaker, it charged up for another 45m until it was full. Said my breaker may be old.įast forward a month, no issues charging since, but last night same thing happened, breaker tripped after 2 hrs.
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Within the first week I had the car charging up from about half full - after 2 hours of charging ar 32A, the breaker tripped and charging stopped.Įlectrician advised to lower to 30a in the car, and see if that fixes it.
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The 40a breaker is not new, our house has two panels, and the EV charger is on the older (original) panel, which also feeds the newer 100a panel. The outlet above is 2 ft around the corner from said box. The home's previous owner was an electrician, and there was a junction box leading to an available 40a double pole breaker, meant for an EV charger. Had this 14-50 outlet installed at our house last month by a local electrical company (who was both recomended by Tesla as well as some locals I know), prior to getting the car.