How to Install an EV Charger - Legrand Hardwired Level 2 EV Charger
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2023
- How to install a hardwired level 2 EV charger from Legrand. In this video I give a very thorough explanation on how to install the this EV charger. The Legrand hardwired level 2 EV charger is a fantastic EV charger and I highly recommend checking it out!
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Great Video. One thing to check
You need to check breaker 1a,1b. The original wires were on breaker 1&3 (A&B). When you put in the tandem breaker you landed them both on A Phase 1a,1b. If it’s sharing the neutral on a network it needs to be on different phases so you don’t overload the neutral.
A new apprentice here how can you check the neutral ? Thanks in advance
This was an awesome video, I really enjoy this type of content.
Thanks! That’s great to hear! I haven’t posted much “How to install” type content yet but this was a fun one! I’m definitely open to posting more videos like this ⚡️
post more service calls/home upgrade videos
Great video! Your procedure of fishing the conduit up the wall is GOLD! No drywall work!
Cord under the garage door is questionable if you were in a cold climate. Thanks for sharing your expertise!
Awesome video! Very clear and easy to follow, thanks for explaining the entire process. I would love to apprentice under someone like you once I get into the apprenticeship! Keep it up and thanks for posting this quality content ✌️
Nice video! Very detailed and thorough step by step .Thanks .
It is such a great and much detailed vid on how to. Thanks a lot. I think I am ready to install mine fir the new BMW i4. Happy holidays!
Thank you, very clear. If it were a new home and dry wall wasn't there yet, I presume you would not use conduit and just run the wires inside the wall?
Great Detailed, and nice clean work and very concise explanations . Much appreciated this. Thanks.
Nice, clean work.
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Great video, Steven! Clear, great speed of explanation and clear on materials/tools used/needed. I'll save this video as reference. I'm a general/Handyman and I have wired in e few EV Charger receipts. Ive wired in many dryers(Yes electrical :). Thanks, for this video. Where did you purchase the Adjustable Pliers and the Strippers with Flat end?
Please please please upload more, LOVE your videos 😊
Thanks, Chelsea!!
I definitely intend to! I’ve been pretty busy working on a lot of behind the scenes stuff for Mad Electrician lately but am now getting back into the rhythm of creating more content again.
Thanks for the encouragement and thanks for watching! ⚡️🤘🏼⚡️
💯Safe and clean work🙏 👋Greetings from Orange City Florida 🐊
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Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to watch! ⚡️🤘🏼⚡️
If that panel wasn’t bonded, where would you land the ground wire? Assume on ground bar. Would you then have to run a common too?
Great job, keep up the good work
Great video. Thanks for sharing
This was a great video. You lucky your wife don’t mind the pipe. My didn’t want to see a pipe so I had to open up the wall and get my carpenter friend to put it back up
Thanks! I enjoyed the installing part but it was tricky setting up my camera and light for every shot 😂 I actually really considered doing that but I wanted to do “simpler” install for the video. That’s definitely the cleaner route to go though ⚡️🤘🏼⚡️
Dude you're the Man! great vid.
Thanks!! Glad you enjoyed the video! ⚡️🤘🏼⚡️
Good job sparkie
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Craftsmanship superb makes me excited as an apprentice
Curious if you have changed the location of the charging cord dock? All but that, and what James mentioned below I liked.
Great work. Very clean. But the charger rack for the cable? How do you close the garage 😮
i just joined the field 4 weeks ago and i want to find a great book for exam prep and training. im finding books on amazon but the reviews are all mixed and i struggle to find a book thats has good information. are there any training books that you recommend? i am in the residential field in the seattle area. thank you, your videos have taught me so much!
Legendary video!!!
I’m glad you think so! Thanks for watching! ⚡️
@@MadElectrician one question I have though is how to call an inspector? Do they charge money ?
Do you torque your connections at the panel?
Just curious why you chose to use fmc from the box to the lb instead of seal tight like you used from charger to the 4 11/16 box? Nice clean install.
Hey Steven I just applied for limited residential 2.5 and got a ranking of 382 is that good?
For the flexible metal conduit in the wall to the panel, don't you have to properly ground/bond it to the panel? Such as a grounding bushing or bonding locknut?
Thanks so much for this. It will help me install ours when we pull the trigger on an EV. Question: I will need about 25 ft of cable length from the charger to the car because I can’t park close to the garage (slope/winter). Do I lose efficiency by having a longer charger cable ? Or should I run underground wire closer to the car parking location. And mount the charger outside ? Cheers mate 🥂
👏👏👏 only issue i would have i imagine is my garage door would just open on it's own cuz there's resistance from the hose
How would this install change if you were to mount the EVSE (charger) on the outside of the wall? I assume you'd probably want to run the liquid tight conduit through the wall but you'd also want to do something to prevent water getting into the wall. Thoughts? Also, do you have to change the ampacity or pick a different temp rating for that THHN while running in the liquid tight conduit?
Can you please do a video on how to prepare for and take the state exam 🙏🏽
Is the top breaker not feeding a MWBC? That'd be two 15 amp circuits, same phase, with one neutral, potentially overloading the neutral. Could be remedied by putting it on the other tandem, though you should also have a handle-tie I think?
How do you know they share a neutral?
Is the handle tie necessary even if the same circuit is connected to different fase?
Good content but you were measuring voltage and saying amps?
Thanks! Which part are you referring to? When I was measuring voltage I was mentioning 240v between phases.
6:30 just gotta be carful with those tandums. The panel needs to be rated for their use and location.
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Does the top tandem have both conductors from multi wire branch circuit terminated to it?
#8 ground? Could have gotten away with a #10 just an fyi. Great video tho keep em coming.
Hello could you please let me know if we can use #6 white in place of #6 black? And will it be an overkill if we use all #6 thhn red, black and green wires ?
By code you are not to re-phase conductors unless they are 4awg or larger. 6awg and smaller should be color phased from manufacturer.
You must buy colored conductors according to NEC.
How are you closing the garage door with the charger mounted on the outside of the garage?
Exactly what I was going to ask! Seems that is possible, but no one makes a video about it
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
He lives in a very safe area
No response to this question?
Guys, if you actually took the time to watch the video you would have an answer, he literally says, you can close the garage door no problem. 19 min 50 seconds. Thank you
What size of wires did you hardwire ,? What brand did you choose? What brand is the 60 amp breaker?
Late reply, but it should be #6 AWG wire. You can buy it as sheathed Romex where all the four wires are in a rubber sheathing, or you can buy the stranded wires individually but you have to make sure that you run them in conduit so they're protected. It's a lot safer to put them in metal conduit.
Make sure you keep doing your research but hopefully this gives you a starting point. If you did need to know what size they are. Also, if anyone sees this and knows otherwise, please chip in
Is it a bi directional charger.
i have 200amp panel with all 30 breakers used up. One company give me an estimate with your solution involving tandem breaker with about $1400 quote. Two others insist to install a subpanel next to it with $2700 to $3500. Now that i have seen your work i feel good that first solution is not really wrong. anyone know why two companies insist on new subpanel; one of them didn't even visit though he did work on my house 3 yrs ago.
i am in dallas and google does not say that i need a permit but one company says that i need it
very good video ❤
So, red and black are L1 and L2. Was green neutral or ground? If ground, why didn’t you ground the j-box?
Black - L1
Red - L2
White - Neutral
Green - Ground
I did bond the ground to the j-box 👍🏼
Sorry. I thought I only saw 3 wires in the video, and must have missed the grounding.
Definitely only seeing 3 wires. So that charger doesn’t need neutral.
A gfci breaker is not required?
Nope! I actually specifically asked my local inspector about that before doing this install and he said no.
watch out with that multibranch circuit bro!!!!! You should kw that already (overload neutral)...... booooom
Grate Job exept those old Wire Nuts shurly there is a better Solution!
Thanks! The wire nuts are fine and legal, but there is a better, probably more mechanically sound solution. I could have used small Polaris lugs. They take up a little bit more space but will never come undone. They are just more expensive and I didn’t have them on hand when making the video.
Definitely, they are compliant but with that load and length of time it is pulling a full load I would recomeend a type of crimp or mechanical connector.
great video, hows the garage door gonna close if u have it in the way like that ?
Cut a 1½" slot in the garage door from about 4' to the ground. Piece of cake.
They should make a gard plate to protect you from the live wires.
Not sure why they don’t UK fuse boxes (the more modern ones) usually have a plastic cover for the incoming wires.
It would that seem nearly US power pannels seem to have bare wires in them, electricians nead to carry a temporary plastic barrier plate to make it safer when working inside one.
how is the owner closing the garage door?
This is my house. I didn’t explain it in this video but there was an existing gap in the corner of my garage door that the cable fits under without being squished. Not a great solution but it works fine in my situation.
So how much do you make as an electrician
They typically charge $150-$200 per hour.
He is part of Local union 46, so as an employee he makes 70$/H (140k) on the check + benefits (different retirement plans, medical, dental, vision...) Total package is around 97$/H.
Current equals voltage / resistance.
The same amount of current will pass through you touching a main lug as it would a regular outlet. Why are people so scared of panels
Good ol’ ohm’s law baby.
A couple of reasons, though definitely not all:
It’s very easy to make a mistake and touch a main lug working in an energized panel, especially for someone who isn’t very experienced. It would be easier to get hung up or be in an arc flash/ blast situation vs just by working on a regular outlet. There’s the potential of a phase to phase to short, resulting in a very high fault current. Etc.
Thanks for watching!
A generous 3 feet 😂
Couldn’t you just run emt straight to the ev charger?
I could have but it wouldn’t have been where I wanted the charger mounted and I also wanted my EMT to be ran down low so that it wasn’t taking up too much wall space. This was more work but I’m happier with the placement of everything.
😂 my question is how you going to shut the garage door
It doesn’t affect the garage door at all. There’s unfortunatly a slight gap already in that corner so this fits right underneath without getting smashed.
Always use a regular hammer 🔨 to punch a hole. Not a hole saw or a screw driver. It can be easily patched once your finish....i suggest this method it takes a neat hole no dusk no debris.
Will a neck tattoo affect my interview for the apprenticeship?
It should not BUT with that said, you cannot rule out people’s own opinions and judgments- so maybe hold off until you get in! Good luck!
Yeah. If you don’t have at least 1 neck tat and 1 felony they probably won’t take you serious.
You’re applying to a trade not a bank.
why tf would you put the holster outside????
Most of the time my garage door is shut, and it’s rated to be installed indoor or outdoor. I don’t want to open my garage door every time I need to charge and any car I charge will be parked in the driveway.
Does it make any sense to show people how to do your job? When you're out of work, maybe you can watch plumbing videos and learn a new trade.
It sure makes sense to me ⚡️🤘🏼⚡️
you should've showed the ground wire connected to the ground bus after you were done wiring the 60A breaker. the fact you omitted proof of this most crucial step undermines the rest of the video which is otherwise painstakingly thorough. this is the method of youtube con artists who falsely pretend to have expertise.
Can’t remember to film everything my friend. I think it can be safely assumed that since I pulled the wire it got landed. Not sure how accidentally forgetting to film landing the equipment grounding conductor makes me a con artist by any definition of the word, or not an expert. Pretty sure it just makes me human.
Hilarious dude, I did show myself landing the ground wire and I even mentioned it. I just assumed that since you made such a big deal about it I forgot, but lo and behold, here it is. 23:45
Great video as usual. Evergreen content here!
Thanks! Just trying to make you proud, Jeff 🥹
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