Ideas / pics to make exterior charger setup less cluttered?

[green-pattern]

Hi - we recently got a Premium edition MME and are loving it!! But I have to park in the driveway and charge outside, so with the charger itself, the outlet cover, and the cable reel, there's a lot going on now on that little wall outside our house.

I have thought about at least painting the charger and outlet cover with our house paint, and maybe the charger -> plug cable to minimize it, any other tips or pictures you all have done to make things look less cluttered?

Thank you!

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[generaltso]

Hi - we recently got a Limited edition MME and are loving it!!

Limited Edition?

 

[MacherAWD]

I bought one of these at Home Depot for $10 to hang my charger cord on, works great

 

[green-pattern]

Limited Edition?

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[Mach-Lee]

Some people have made a charging kiosk next to their driveway which looks a little better. Much more work though.

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/charger-extension-station.25162/

 

[AliRafiee]

Like this?

 

[HuntingPudel]

My EVSE is inside the garage. I just lead the cable under the door in the gap between the two slabs that make up the garage floor. No outside clutter. ??

 

[dbsb3233]

Hi - we recently got a Premium edition MME and are loving it!! But I have to park in the driveway and charge outside, so with the charger itself, the outlet cover, and the cable reel, there's a lot going on now on that little wall outside our house.

I have thought about at least painting the charger and outlet cover with our house paint, and maybe the charger -> plug cable to minimize it, any other tips or pictures you all have done to make things look less cluttered?

Thank you!

Hard to tell without seeing a picture of what you've got already. Sounds like your EVSE is already installed outside though. If it weren't, one method is to mount the charger on the inside of the garage and use a cable hatch thru the wall. Also more secure that way.

 

[21st Century Pony]

This is my EVSE cord management for my primary hard-wired Grizzl-E and for my secondary portable Panasonic EVSE.

The Grizzl-E lives coiled in the CordPro large version. The portable trip-ready Panasonic EVSE lives in the standard size CordPro.

Normally both CordPro containers are hanging off the same hook.

Since this picture one year ago I've added two holsters for the two EVSEs' car-end plug-in handles on a small board on the brick wall, right above the CordPros and the metal wiring channel.

 

[NewGuy]

Some people have made a charging kiosk next to their driveway which looks a little better. Much more work though.

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/charger-extension-station.25162/

One thought even if you don’t want to built one of these kiosks like I did…

get the cable nice and neat, and mark the top of each loop with something; I used yellow electric tape. This makes it much easier to neatly coil the cable each time. I can just grab the cable at each marked spot, and put that on the hook.

 

[green-pattern]

Thanks all! Great to know what everyone else is doing.

 

[dbsb3233]

One thing I like doing: mount the cord holder kinda high on the wall so you only need maybe 2-3 loops without it touching the ground. I hate trying to loop the cord like 5 times. That's not very good for the cord either. Here's mine...

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