My Airbnb charging kit

[jeeden]

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I'm picturing something like the spiders in the movie minority report.

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[SwampNut]

They would use inductive charging, but mostly wouldn't work on the defective Rivian charge pads.

 

[jeeden]

A heads up to everyone that right now (July 8th, 2024) Amazon has the gearIT Tesla to J1772 adapter in the top post at 20% off making it $43

 

[zgStevieD]

Can any of you smart folks help me out on this? I bought this early days based on recommendation from another owner Amazon.com: MICTUNING 18 Inch 30A Male to 50A Female Heavy Duty Dogbone Electrical Adapter with Handle, 125V 3750W : Automotive
I've had a chance to test it, but it didn't seem to work. And I recall seeing info that these have to be EV specific (which I see the ones posted here seem to say in the descriptions).

Can anyone confirm this would work at say an RV park? TIA

 

[VandalSibs]

Can any of you smart folks help me out on this? I bought this early days based on recommendation from another owner Amazon.com: MICTUNING 18 Inch 30A Male to 50A Female Heavy Duty Dogbone Electrical Adapter with Handle, 125V 3750W : Automotive
I've had a chance to test it, but it didn't seem to work. And I recall seeing info that these have to be EV specific (which I see the ones posted here seem to say in the descriptions).

Can anyone confirm this would work at say an RV park? TIA

If it doesn't say that it is for EVs, it's not going to work.

What are you using for a portable charger at a campsite? I personally use a Tesla Mobile Charger with a TT-30 pigtail that fits the Tesla unit (TT-30 Adapter for Tesla Gen 2) & the usual Tesla to J1772 adapter at my truck. No need to worry about properly adjusting amperage in the vehicle. There is a significant $$$ investment there, but it's really the best solution until someone starts making custom pigtails for the Rivian Mobile Charger.....

 

[jeeden]

If it doesn't say that it is for EVs, it's not going to work.

What are you using for a portable charger at a campsite? I personally use a Tesla Mobile Charger with a TT-30 pigtail that fits the Tesla unit (TT-30 Adapter for Tesla Gen 2) & the usual Tesla to J1772 adapter at my truck. No need to worry about properly adjusting amperage in the vehicle. There is a significant $$$ investment there, but it's really the best solution until someone starts making custom pigtails for the Rivian Mobile Charger.....

Yea, as he said above, it won't work at an RV park because there are special grounding requirements so for that scenario you need to use an EV specific plug.

 

[mudito]

Can any of you smart folks help me out on this? I bought this early days based on recommendation from another owner Amazon.com: MICTUNING 18 Inch 30A Male to 50A Female Heavy Duty Dogbone Electrical Adapter with Handle, 125V 3750W : Automotive
I've had a chance to test it, but it didn't seem to work. And I recall seeing info that these have to be EV specific (which I see the ones posted here seem to say in the descriptions).

Can anyone confirm this would work at say an RV park? TIA

This is the one I got based on recommendations from this forum: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G2MT4T6?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

I haven't had yet the chance to test it, but it's EV specific, not RVs

 

[zgStevieD]

THANK YOU!

 

[jeeden]

@Dataport Check out this thread (top post of first page) for a guide on adapters for vacation rentals.

 

[MacO512]

Instead of using adapters between the receptacle and the EVSE - I've used the Tesla mobile connector which has many adapter options available to swap in to it. I have all of the adapters in the official Tesla bundle as well as the TT30 adapters from evseadapters.com
https://shop.tesla.com/product/nema-adapter-bundle
https://evseadapters.com/products/tt-30-adapter-for-tesla-model-s-x-3-gen-2

The big advantage of this is;
1. Temperature sensor is directly on the plug at the receptacle (most common failure point)
2. Amps are always correctly set at 80%
3. Much sleeker system with known higher quality components and fewer connections/adapters (points of failure)

I have a NACS to CCS adapter I use for my Rivian.

I have three 20' Lectron NACS extension cables (I tested all three with my Tesla wall charger at 48amps and had very little voltage drop of only 1-2v). This setup also has a big advantage in that I don't need a bunch of different extension cords. The difficult part for others is I no longer see that NACS extension available to buy on Lectron website. It was expensive too - I believe over $200 each. I think only buying one ~20ft should be fine too. You will want a very high quality extension cable. Before I found these extensions I had a bulky 14-50 EV extension (without neutral) which is much more cumbersome and loses many of this system advatanges.

I do have some converters I keep for an emergency but have never used and would be very weary to use (L14-30P>14-50R)+(10-50P>14-50R)+(6-30P>6-50R). Ideally I will eventually replace these with Tesla mobile connector adapters.

 

[SyanVergio]

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