Electrify America vs BMW i3-REx

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  1. David Green

    David Green Well-Known Member


    I see, Quinn is a popular teacher at Edmonds Woodway, teaches English and Theory of Knowledge. I have known him for a long time... great guy. He also was a co-founder of allrecepies.com in college
     
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  3. bwilson4web

    bwilson4web Well-Known Member Subscriber

    After the Manchester disaster, I started looking at an L2 route Huntsville-to-Nashville. Turns out Blink pretty much has a lock on L2 chargers but I've been burned by ones derated to 16A. So I asked Blink and they report:

    Blink Level 2 stations are limited to a maximum of 30A and the vast majority are set to 24-30A as is the case with most public chargers.

    If I decide to risk it, I'll survey the EVSEs with a tester to measure the pilot signal duty cycle and read out the available current. Then I'll record the results in PlugShare.

    Bob Wilson
     
  4. Do you know what this is in kW?
     
  5. bwilson4web

    bwilson4web Well-Known Member Subscriber

    It depends but for a typical commercial installation with 3-phase:
    • 5.0kW ~= 24A * 208V
    • 6.2kW ~= 30A * 208V
    Bob Wilson
     
  6. David Green

    David Green Well-Known Member

    Amps X Volts /1000 is

    In the USA, 208 V is very uncommon unless it is 3 Phase Commercial... Most common input voltage in L2 Chargers is 240V, in residential and small business applications not equipped with 3 phase.
     
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  8. Sorry, had some sort of brain freeze. Was thinking these were DCFC stations. Couldn't figure out the low amperages. Now it makes sense. Doh!
     
  9. jim

    jim Active Member

    its good they are working with you. I would expect a few problems so you are helping us all. When I look on their website todfay 9-13-2018 they have 12 locations up and hopefully working. It's great they have 4-10 ports at each location. But you tried them all so it must be a software issue on top of the CCS communication.
    Too had a Chevy or other CCS vehicle didn't come by so you would also have a side by side comparison to get them going on a fix.
     
  10. dGarry48

    dGarry48 Member

    Good location indeed, a few friends of mine there might be enjoying the station already.
     

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