MikeDabrowski2017
Well-known member
Most EV owners want to charge as fast as possible
But in my situation I need to control the rate.
I have a battery based micro grid solar system in my home
My outback radian inverter can output a max of 9kw continuous at 240vac
The 45kwh 48v battery bank and 7.5kw solar array
Will fully charge the solar storage bank by noon this time of year so the remainder of the day my excess output was wasted , so the Bolt is a perfect place to dump those electrons
I bought a clipper creek 24 A evse which works fine.
Problem is the solar array with midnight solar mppt charge controllers can at best provide 100-110A of current to charge the solar batteries
The inverter draws 145A from the batteries so to charge the Bolt I cannot maintain the batteries SOC
To solve this problem I just got a juicebox pro 40
This evse is supposed to allow setting the charge current from 6A to 40A
I just got it today so I may not be using it correctly but
It seems to default to 32 A even if I set the max charge rate to 6 A?
Will play with it over the weekend to better understand if I am using it correctly
Anyone else with the juicebox pro 40?
Mike
But in my situation I need to control the rate.
I have a battery based micro grid solar system in my home
My outback radian inverter can output a max of 9kw continuous at 240vac
The 45kwh 48v battery bank and 7.5kw solar array
Will fully charge the solar storage bank by noon this time of year so the remainder of the day my excess output was wasted , so the Bolt is a perfect place to dump those electrons
I bought a clipper creek 24 A evse which works fine.
Problem is the solar array with midnight solar mppt charge controllers can at best provide 100-110A of current to charge the solar batteries
The inverter draws 145A from the batteries so to charge the Bolt I cannot maintain the batteries SOC
To solve this problem I just got a juicebox pro 40
This evse is supposed to allow setting the charge current from 6A to 40A
I just got it today so I may not be using it correctly but
It seems to default to 32 A even if I set the max charge rate to 6 A?
Will play with it over the weekend to better understand if I am using it correctly
Anyone else with the juicebox pro 40?
Mike