Inspector just came to my house and told me not to plug normal household stuff into the new 14-50 NEMA outlet and I have a lot of questions boy I tell you
@hacks4pancakes I discovered the normal 15A outlet on my condo patio... Next the the ac condenser... Does not provide the expected 110v but instead 220.
Blew a few chargers to find that out. Now I make sure everything works up to that voltage. Pondering putting an EU outlet to avoid future folks making the same mistake.
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Synchronicity...
I just bought this:
MECMO 50 Amp to 20 Amp 110V RV Distribution Adapter, NEMA 14-50P to 4 X 5-20R/15R RV 4-Prong to Mutiple Household Outlet w/ 20amp Circuit Breaker, UL Listed RV Generator Distribution Cord https://a.co/d/5RAOaGP
@hacks4pancakes I’m not sure if this has been mentioned before but be very careful on the brand outlet they install. Leviton is garbage and will melt/fail.
@hacks4pancakes I guess true. Just mentioned in case you knew what brand the electrician installed. There’s lots of stories of electricians installing outlets for EVs but they install the cheapest (usually Leviton) outlets and they will fail because they can’t handle sustained high loads. Case in point, my melted/scorched connection here (top right). My Tesla mobile charger luckily sensed the high temperature and shut down.
@hacks4pancakes you likely know that 14/50 is driven with a pair of out of phase 120v lines, you can get 4 20amp 120v outlets out of it. And if you're paying a special EV rate for the juice from that outlet it could be a good deal to move loads there.
@hacks4pancakes Pretty sure they make PDUs you can (legitimately) plug into that. Although maybe it would have to be an L14 rather than a straight-prong.
@hacks4pancakes did the installer flip the connections for neutral and ground at the outlet? if so, connecting something to that out could get exciting even at other outlets
@hacks4pancakes I caught that it was a 14-50. My recollection is that it is a 4 conductor outlet with both the panel hots to the blades right and left, the neutral is the blade directly across from the semi-round ground.
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At our old shop on Seattle, we had occasion to install a 15-60P at one point. It was mildly terrifying, as was the mill that plugged into it, which drew 53A of 240V triple phase.
Second, if you make a 120V pigtail adapter, it would work and be perfectly safe and probably up to code too unless the neutral isn’t connected (which, don’t do that, install a 6-50 instead and use a 14-50 to 6-50 adapter to plug in any device which uses a 14-50 with no neutral)
@hacks4pancakes oh now that is a warning with a backstory. and a terrifying one at that considering you have no fuses built into power cables to protect the lead.
@hacks4pancakes We installed a NEMA 14-50 outlet in our garage. For my spouse’s kiln. We don’t have a basement, so the garage is our workshop space. The cars are relegated to rusting outdoors.