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Does anyone have experience using this type of adapter? some of the amazon reviews say it destroyed the tesla charger. If I destroy my wife's charger it will cost me way more than the money to replace it.
 
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yarpos said:
If you can afford 2 EVs and a wife , why not just get the correct charger?
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Because it’s not always about being able to afford. I can afford a lot of things including something way more expensive than a RAV4 PRIME but is it wise to if you don’t have to? If there are good alternatives that works and is cheaper, why not? People need to learn how to save and not over spend.
This mentality is why ppl don’t have the emergency funding to ride out times like Covid and rely on the government to just hand them money.
 
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To answer your question yarpos.
My Electrical panel is MAXED out with solar, the house, and the Tesla charger.

on another note and please don't reply
This is not facebook. I am not rich i am middle class. we only paid 35k for the Model 3 after rebates.
thanks redhawk
 
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DIY Dan said:
To answer your question yarpos.
My Electrical panel is MAXED out with solar, the house, and the Tesla charger.

on another note and please don't reply
This is not facebook. I am not rich i am middle class. we only paid 35k for the Model 3 after rebates.
thanks redhawk
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Just put in an A/B switch to the chargers, you clearly dont plan to use them both at once

Glad the rebates worked out for you, OPM is the good way to fund cars
 
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RedElmo said:
Because it’s not always about being able to afford. I can afford a lot of things including something way more expensive than a RAV4 PRIME but is it wise to if you don’t have to? If there are good alternatives that works and is cheaper, why not? People need to learn how to save and not over spend.
This mentality is why ppl don’t have the emergency funding to ride out times like Covid and rely on the government to just hand them money.
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Tend to agree with the philosophy really, however my flippant response comes from bitter experience. Kludging together adapters trying to do to much with disparate systems is rarely a way to save money in the long term. YMMV of course.
 
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I've used that Lectron charger adapter quite a bit with public Tesla chargers and haven't had any problems with it at 6.6kW (Tesla HPC and Tesla Destination type chargers). I haven't used it with a Tesla mobile/home charger since we don't have one, but I'm not sure what it would do to destroy the Tesla chargers. As far as I can tell, there are no intelligent components in it, just wires. My Prime always seems a little confused by it at first compared to a regular J1772 connector, but it always sorts itself out and starts charging within 15 seconds.

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I was going to get the first one linked above (post # 2), but with it being a max of 40A and the Tesla charger at my daughter’s house being 50A, not going to take a chance. I hope someone will come up with an adapter that will handle more than 40 A. I saw a video in which the above 40A max adapter would not work with greater than 40A being supplier to it anyway (perhaps it has within it a “amperage limit” sensor within it to protect it).
 
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Traveling said:
I was going to get the first one linked above (post # 2), but with it being a max of 40A and the Tesla charger at my daughter’s house being 50A, not going to take a chance. I hope someone will come up with an adapter that will handle more than 40 A. I saw a video in which the above 40A max adapter would not work with greater than 40A being supplier to it anyway (perhaps it has within it a “amperage limit” sensor within it to protect it).
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No RAV4 charger will draw more than 30 amps, you should be fine.
 
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The other half of the safety question is whether the adapter will be fine with almost rated a 40 A max by the manufacturer. Thus to be sure, I just posed this question to someone I trust, Tom Moloughney in his video, asking him would I need to get the most expensive Testa Tap 80A version adapter since the EVSE cord is coming from a 60A breaker.

 
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In a sense, your car is appliance. You plug it in, it draws power. Point being, lots of appliances have cords and parts that are not rated to handle the full power of the circuit. I'm interested in what Tom has to say.
 
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I fully agree; this question was in regards to our periodically visiting our daughter’s house and using their hard wired 60A Tesla EVSE with an adapter so we could charge while visiting them and get home on EV — thus using 100% EV power for the entire round trip.
 
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