"Snopud"...I haven't heard that acronym since a skiing accident I had in the '80's.
Apparently this is a brand new thing for nema 14-50s, it was mentioned by the first electrician I contacted before I decided to switch to the hard-wired and do it myself.
Yup, that’s why I switched to the hard-wired after hearing about the GFCI breaker requirement.
You’re right, that’s what the instructions say. But that’s the code requirement told to me by an electrician when I requested a quote. I will ask the inspector when they visit.
I danced under that name one Winter.
More than glorified. My Grizzl-E explicitly says it's built into the EVSE, and don't plug into a GFCI outlet.
As others said, that's not an option. One possibility (depending on your usage) is just to charge at 120V, but it's slow. The included charger appears to be 8A at 120V, adding about 3 miles per hour. But if you have an unused 20A circuit to the garage, you could get a 16A 120V charger to add about 6 miles per hour, if that were enough for your needs. But it's rare to have a totally unused 20A circuit. Couldn't be shared concurrently while charging. Although there might be an automated switch available, and the garage door opener often has a dedicated circuit.
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No worries. I ended up shelling out about $1,300 to have a licensed electrician come out and trench my yard and run conduit to my detached garage and install a 14-50 NEMA outlet. Don't think I will be installing charging station at this point, but I will say that the $1,300 that this guy did it for came in much less than what I was quoted by a ouome other companies, so I am crossing my find gers that it all works when I get my MACH e home...
This charger is similar to Ford’s Connect hard wired charger in that it’s GFCI and putting in a GFCI breaker would confuse the charger and cause faults in circuitry shutting down the charger.
Are you going to claim the 30% federal tax credit for it? I suppose you can try even without buying the charger. But if not, then buying a charger in 2020 to make it all qualify for the credit basically pays for the charger.
aka: Ground Faultess Interruptus
That’s IF the hard wired charger is NOT used!!! If a hard wired charger similar to Ford’s “Connect” charger is used, it already has GFCI circuitry onboard and using a GFCI breaker will confuse the circuitry and cause it to “fault” interrupting charging! Tell your electrician about this when he quotes code.
