Good Mobile EVSE option

[potato]

Overall, I find it inopportune and actually a bit sad that every car manufacturer EVSE I've seen, Ford included, has a proprietary connection between its "brick" and its cord whips. This makes no cords and plugs interchangeable between different OEM EVSEs.

What I greatly like about my old EVSEUpgrade unit, is that its business end terminates in NEMA L6-30R plug and thus any short adapter or cord whip that terminates in a corresponding L6-30P end can be used with it.

We standardized electric receptacles many decades ago... why can't OEM EVSEs use that well-known technology?

I think the point is to guarantee the EVSE is not physically capable of overloading the circuit it's plugged into. If you rely on software / user configuration to limit current, sooner or later you are going to mess up and draw more than the circuit can safely supply. Something will overheat. Hopefully it's the breaker...

There are lots of third party EVSEs if you do want to take that risk.

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[21st Century Truck]

I think the point is to guarantee the EVSE is not physically capable of overloading the circuit it's plugged into. If you rely on software / user configuration to limit current, sooner or later you are going to mess up and draw more than the circuit can safely supply. Something will overheat. Hopefully it's the breaker...

There are lots of third party EVSEs if you do want to take that risk.

Gotcha. My old EVSEUpgrade is capable of 20 amps at its top end, so it's pretty safe for all the 240V receptacles I'm aware of.

 

[Tom M]

Thanks, that's pretty much exactly what I was looking for, but ouch on the price lol.

The J+ Booster is what I have. It has a wide variety of plug options, amperage selectable, and probably made way better than it needed to be.

 

[Shmoe]

The Tesla Mobile Connector (EVSE Charger) is a soilid reliable product for only $300. You would need an inexpensive NACS to J1772 adapter also to use in your Ford.
https://shop.tesla.com/product/mobile-connector

The also sell a kit for an additional $245 with a NEMA adapter bundle to connect to a variety of electric outlets.
https://shop.tesla.com/product/nema-adapter-bundle

ncludes:

• 1x Gen 2 NEMA 5-20 Adapter
• 1x Gen 2 NEMA 6-15 Adapter
• 1x Gen 2 NEMA 6-20 Adapter
• 1x Gen 2 NEMA 10-30 Adapter
• 1x Gen 2 NEMA 14-30 Adapter
• 1x Gen 2 NEMA 14-50 Adapter
• 1x Gen 2 NEMA 6-50 Adapter
• 1x storage bag

You can do even better on eBay.. this is the way.

 

[potato]

I also went with the Tesla mobile connector. As noted above, it has a pretty good variety of dongles, and was pretty reasonably priced. Also because I can then charge any vehicle from the bed outlet if necessary. Not that I've had to, but it's possible.

 

[Shmoe]

I also went with the Tesla mobile connector. As noted above, it has a pretty good variety of dongles, and was pretty reasonably priced. Also because I can then charge any vehicle from the bed outlet if necessary. Not that I've had to, but it's possible.

It is one of few you can get a few more amps out of utilizing a 5-20 adapter in the bed outlets if you don't have the 9.6kW PPO instead of a 5-15 since Tesla sells that along side the rest of the adapters too.

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