Scott Ford wrote: > I am the proud new owner of a 1985 VW Cabriolet 120v EV.(1st EV)
Congratulations! > The vehicle is currently designed to charge from an old > Lester Electronics off-board charger. Seeing that I live right on the Los > Angeles and Orange county borders, it seems silly for me to not have the > ability to take advantage of opportunity charging with the available > Southern California EVSE stations. I am hoping to get some advice for a > cost effective setup that I can add to my car which would allow me to > charge virtually anywhere. I am wanting to keep the current Lester > Charger capability if possible for back up should I ever have problems > with an on-board charger. The Lester charger plug in is located in the > front grill of vehicle where the VW emblem would be. Sounds a lot like the configuration of my first EV, other than mine having been 96V while ours is 120V. My Lester had a little sliding door on the front which was used to expose or cover one of two AC inlets; one accepted a 120V cord, the other a 220V cord. If yours is similar, then you can use your Lester with the J1772 public stations simply by plugging a cord from the (220V only) J1172 inlet (that you will add) to the 220V AC plug/inlet on the charger. This does require that you are able to fit/carry the Lester in the car with you, and you would either relocate the Anderson DC charge inlet from the front bumper to a more convenient location, or simply extend the charger DC output cable such that it can reach the original inlet even while inside the car. Note that you refer above to keeping the Lester in case of trouble with an "off-board" charger; just in case there is some misunderstanding: the J1772 EVSE's are NOT off-board chargers; they are simply fancy/smart AC outlets that provide power to the on-board charger that *you* provide. Cheers, Roger. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
