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Put an electric car charger on the side of your shed?

• Syonyk 5y ago
  When I redo the wiring in my shed, that's one of the things I plan on doing - more exterior outlets. Right now, I don't have an easy way to plug the Volt in down there, but on days when it's used early and has the full day to recover, I probably could. The main limit is that I only have a 2kW single phase (120V) inverter down there, so I can't really charge at a full 2kW, and I can't charge hard while also running my air conditioner. I can spare 500-800W, no problem, but beyond that, it starts to be harder. I've got a bigger inverter on a trailer I can parallel in, though, and that might work - run 900W out of my office into the aux charger on that, with another 900W coming in from solar, and then charge the car at 3.3kW, buffering off the battery pack. I need to play with it a bit more this winter, but having some good outdoor outlets on my office will make things easier.