I know you don't do as many videos as other Tesla or EV channels but they are always well done, concise, a good length, and you have a real knack for it. Thanks, they are entertaining and much appreciated.
I was just wondering: I like the whole OpenEVSE idea. And I really your version repurposing the telephone case. Very artistic, cheeky, and unique. Would you be interested in doing a follow-up video showing where OpenEVSE is today in comparison to all of the current, commercial EVSE equipment available on the market? Cost, capabilities, extensibility, portability, etc. could be topics of presentation.
Didn't know about the solar aspect, using the excess energy to charge an EV instead of sending it to the grid for pennies is a great idea! Makes this charging station all that much more valuable as I dont know if off the shelf chargers have that type of capability. A video showing this setup would be pretty awesome as well!
From Will Powers solr forum: "Emporia Vue with their EV charger works awesome to charge off of excess solar in a grid tied situation.".... I'm just researching now but it looks like another good option.
Alex, I am so intrigue with software you use to make this video. Is it like an animation software? The presentation of this video is well done. Thanks.
The video was edited with Adobe Premiere Pro, but no special software was needed for the self-assembly sequence since that was just some old-fashioned stop motion animation.
I know certain energy companies require a separate energy monitoring meter to give full clean energy credits / optimized energy use rates for EV charging; do you know if companies like Southern California Edison and other energy providers accept the energy useage data from OpenEVSE or its connected databases for those credits? I've done some research on the ChargePoint EVSEs and only some of them qualify so I was hoping that you might know given your relationship with the OpenEVSE's creators.
That's a very good question and, honestly, I've never heard of anything like that despite being an SCE customer who started on their discounted EV charging rate schedules years ago (TOU-D-TEV initially, now TOU-D-A)... I'll ask.
OH! You mean the dedicated meter rate schedules... It depends on the utility, but those plans generally require a separate utility meter and usage is billed to a separate account tied to said meter. I haven't heard of utilities allowing data from an EVSE to be used in place of a dedicated meter for those plans, but I'll see what I can come up with. I've stayed away from the dedicated meter plans since they'd cost me more money than the net metered solar on TOU-D-A setup I currently have (my total net cost for electricity last year, with all service charges and fees included, was less than $10).
@@AlexVenz I would think that the logic in the controller is still using the current on L1 compared to the total current to decide whether or not there's a ground fault. just seeing current on one leg or total current on both legs on its own wouldn't show you a ground fault it would just show you total current.
I know you don't do as many videos as other Tesla or EV channels but they are always well done, concise, a good length, and you have a real knack for it. Thanks, they are entertaining and much appreciated.
I was just wondering: I like the whole OpenEVSE idea. And I really your version repurposing the telephone case. Very artistic, cheeky, and unique.
Would you be interested in doing a follow-up video showing where OpenEVSE is today in comparison to all of the current, commercial EVSE equipment available on the market? Cost, capabilities, extensibility, portability, etc. could be topics of presentation.
Didn't know about the solar aspect, using the excess energy to charge an EV instead of sending it to the grid for pennies is a great idea! Makes this charging station all that much more valuable as I dont know if off the shelf chargers have that type of capability. A video showing this setup would be pretty awesome as well!
From Will Powers solr forum: "Emporia Vue with their EV charger works awesome to charge off of excess solar in a grid tied situation.".... I'm just researching now but it looks like another good option.
Killing it dude
Nice!
I seriously considered OpenEvse and would have gotten one from them over a juicebox had it been pre assembled.
OpenEVSE does offer fully assembled charging stations
what is the j1772 adapter 1 hand charging trick?
Best summarized here: teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/2498331/
Alex, I am so intrigue with software you use to make this video. Is it like an animation software? The presentation of this video is well done. Thanks.
The video was edited with Adobe Premiere Pro, but no special software was needed for the self-assembly sequence since that was just some old-fashioned stop motion animation.
very cool .. thanks Alex.
+1 on the stop motion assembly portion of your video. Great job! Subscribed.
One temp sensor was reading 0C... ?
I know certain energy companies require a separate energy monitoring meter to give full clean energy credits / optimized energy use rates for EV charging; do you know if companies like Southern California Edison and other energy providers accept the energy useage data from OpenEVSE or its connected databases for those credits? I've done some research on the ChargePoint EVSEs and only some of them qualify so I was hoping that you might know given your relationship with the OpenEVSE's creators.
That's a very good question and, honestly, I've never heard of anything like that despite being an SCE customer who started on their discounted EV charging rate schedules years ago (TOU-D-TEV initially, now TOU-D-A)... I'll ask.
I think it's classified as the TOU-EV-1 now according to the SCE website
OH! You mean the dedicated meter rate schedules... It depends on the utility, but those plans generally require a separate utility meter and usage is billed to a separate account tied to said meter. I haven't heard of utilities allowing data from an EVSE to be used in place of a dedicated meter for those plans, but I'll see what I can come up with. I've stayed away from the dedicated meter plans since they'd cost me more money than the net metered solar on TOU-D-A setup I currently have (my total net cost for electricity last year, with all service charges and fees included, was less than $10).
Did you make the motion capture scenes of the device building itself?
Yes and it was my first ever attempt at stop motion animation... I learned a lot in the process, but it was very time consuming.
Alex Venz
It looks AMAZING!
Of course that is a lot of work!
Wow, hats off to you sir!
Thanks!
wow Alex I thought this was footage from OpenEVSE themselves. Outstanding job!
Holy crap, you did those yourself?!?!
Doesn't ground fault protection require measurements from both CTs?
I prefer to connect to mine over WiFi. It's quicker than the 1 button.
GFI setup in this unit has both hots passing through the same CT
@@AlexVenz I would think that the logic in the controller is still using the current on L1 compared to the total current to decide whether or not there's a ground fault. just seeing current on one leg or total current on both legs on its own wouldn't show you a ground fault it would just show you total current.
"jiggling" all the parts in the first bit at 2:-- was making me nauseous and totally unnecessary.