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It is often a surprise to see how other people react to mains electricity when they encounter it in a piece of equipment. As engineers who have dealt with it both personally and professionally for many years it is easy to forget that not everyone has had that experience. On one hand we wince at those who dive in with no fear of the consequences, on the other we are constantly surprised at the number of people who treat any item with more than a few volts in it as though it was contaminated with radioactive anthrax and are scared to even think about opening it up.
I’m cynical that the non-tetany behaviour of AC results in being able to pull away. Remember that mains is oscillating at >50 x a second, so the pull-away would have to be within that cycle, as well as overwhelming the hyperpolarisation and ignoring the fact that normal neuromuscular signals are essentially pulse-frequency modulated with saturation causing desensitivity (I.e. A continuous signal is ignored)
Such an awful practice and terrible idea. I have an EV and would never do this (me being an EE). I decided to make this correctly and I installed dedicated #10 cable from the auxiliary power distribution box to the EV charger as a permanent connection, no plugs no unsafe contraptions, and following all the NEC codes. Those cables you used and the crimp terminals aren’t suited for the current rate. Check them if you don’t believe me. Crimp pressure plug in terminals are rated for around 6 amps of continuous AC current and I hope you used at least 600 A.C. volts insulation cable… Bad, bad idea.
*Using approved LO/TO procedures which include verifying the energy sources are removed/disappated and safe
And keep in mind that EVSEs are a continuous duty device. As such, you need to derate them from the circuit’s rating by 20%. So you should only use 12A on a 15A rated circuit. And you should only do that if you’re confident that there’s nothing else pulling significant current on EITHER circuit besides your EVSE.
Exactly, sometimes less of a compact form factor makes a better product overall. Snubber circuit is a nice touch tough.
I use these kinds of SSRS in high current applications driving kilns. we protect ourselves quite happily by having a contactor in the line. The SSR when it fails fails ON and the contactor is help closed all the time but overtemp or any other kind of alarm will release teh contactor and break teh circuit. My recommendation – and no one wil ever get to the bottom of the comments on this feed – is to add a contactor in series which is help closed and opened in an alarm condition. Then the SSR can fail to its heart’s content and you’re good. The SSR is of course much better at switching on and off than the relay which will fail eventually from on/off transients. As usual – YMMV
Yeah just what we need – another dopey ‘standard’. Putting stuff in right and using proper equipment is and has always been the solution.
My friend died of electrocution while on the job. Our mains voltage here is 240V (single phase) or 415V (three phase) and not very forgiving.
It really sounds like the issue here is only anticipating a steady load and not a cold start (figuratively and literally) when choosing componenets
I don’t know if the heat is high enough but mirror heating pads can be quite small and put under a sheet of glass would be quite effective.
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