Moving with FCSP

[atxlightning]

I have the FCSP installed by Qmerit a year ago and i decided i want to move out of my home and rent it. If the value of the charger is not relevant to a tenant, and the cost for me to buy another charger at my new home is too great, i am considering the cost to safely remove my charger from my home and taking it with me. My home needed some upgrades so that will remain, essentially only taking what i got from Ford when i bought the Lightning. Has anyone had experience removing and/or moving your FCSP? I thought i should reach out to the electrician company that was hired for the install and get a quote to remove and disable the power.

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[K6CCC]

Should be easy enough for an electrician to move it for you. There's no magic involved. I am qualified to do that level of electrical work and it would take me less than 1/2 hour to completely remove my FCSP and the conduit back to the breaker panel. Installation at a new location would depend on what all was involved. And yes, i did the installation of my FCSP. I did have the advantage that the FCSP is about eight conduit feet from the main panel...

 

[Athrun88]

As long as you didn't get the HIS equipment installed, it should be a pretty straightforward job for any electrician. Depending on the layout of your new place, they might be able to reuse the existing conduit when they reinstall too.

 

[BluesClues]

the cost to remove and reinstall is likely going to cause a wash on the ~$500 savings of a new charger depending on local electrician labor rates in your area (+service call fees and what not)

i know FCSP is more, but you could go with a different charger

 

[hturnerfamily]

Since this will remain 'your' home, whether you rent it or live in it, the installed EVSE/FCSP wiring is not really any issue: just replace the FCSP with a NEMA 50amp Oulet/box for any future tenant EV owner's usage. Replace the 240v breaker with the correct 50amp type.

 

[Rlevans]

I agree with hturner. Leave the wiring in place and have them install a 14-50. Then if you ever move back you can just plug in your FCSP.

With a strong clause in your rental agreement that only "approved by you appliances" will be used there.

I had a rental once and you can never anticipate what people will do in a place they don't respect.

 

[FloridaMan655321]

I don't know what FCSP stands for, but it sounds like it's a home charger. The cost of an electrician installing is the biggest price to getting a home charger installed. They are around $500, though I'm a fan of the Tesla Universal, which is a tad more. Just seems like a product that you would keep installed at a location instead of treating it like a mobile connector.
Of course, my lack of knowledge of the FCSP acronym might make the above statement sound dumb.

 

[Pioneer74]

I don't know what FCSP stands for, but it sounds like it's a home charger. The cost of an electrician installing is the biggest price to getting a home charger installed. They are around $500, though I'm a fan of the Tesla Universal, which is a tad more. Just seems like a product that you would keep installed at a location instead of treating it like a mobile connector.
Of course, my lack of knowledge of the FCSP acronym might make the above statement sound dumb.

FCSP

Ford
Charge
Station
Pro

 

[TaxmanHog]

We've only written about the Ford Charge Station Pro hundreds if not thousands of times.

OP: Leave the wiring setup for a lower capacity EVSE, your future tenants might be EV users.

 

[chl]

Since this will remain 'your' home, whether you rent it or live in it, the installed EVSE/FCSP wiring is not really any issue: just replace the FCSP with a NEMA 50amp Oulet/box for any future tenant EV owner's usage. Replace the 240v breaker with the correct 50amp type.

Not a bad idea.
Just remember to clearly label the outlet box "40A MAX" which is the maximum allowed continuous load on a plug-in circuit, assuming you put it on a properly sized breaker (125% of 40A = 50A breaker), and we are assuming you hard wired the FCSP for that amperage or more (the max 80A perhaps?).
Also, the 2019 code, if adopted in your area, requires any 240V outlet in a garage be GFCI protected - so a GFCI circuit breaker would be required.
Your electrician should be aware of the local rules.

 

[FloridaMan655321]

We've only written about the Ford Charge Station Pro hundreds if not thousands of times.

Not everyone lives on the forums, or would even think something like that would have a acronym. Plus if you search (at least on duckduckgo) there isn't anything close to that on the top results. It's always good to know your audience and if you plan on using acronyms like that, then you might want to first establish what it is and not use it like you are working at a corporation. I used to work in IT and would bitch at AT&T for pulling this nonsense on me lol (using internal acronyms and not standard IT acronyms).

Well it seems I was close in that it was a home charger

 

[Aminorjourney]

Depending on where you are, I would TOTALLY leave it - or at least replace it with another unit.

As home ownership becomes something of a laughable goal for anyone under the age of 40 in much of the world, having a charging station might get you renters with EVs.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Not everyone lives on the forums, or would even think something like that would have a acronym. Plus if you search (at least on duckduckgo) there isn't anything close to that on the top results. It's always good to know your audience and if you plan on using acronyms like that, then you might want to first establish what it is and not use it like you are working at a corporation. I used to work in IT and would bitch at AT&T for pulling this nonsense on me lol (using internal acronyms and not standard IT acronyms).

Well it seems I was close in that it was a home charger

I'm very familiar with writing technical guides and manuals (thanks IRS technical writing courses), but you an I have had this debate before, it's OLD...... you're on the forum, have had numerous opportunities to educate yourself, why the persistent complaining.

 

[chl]

It does take some time to get up on all the acronyms used in tech-world. I did a stint as a technical writer for Bell Labs in the Systems Software Dept. and that place was crazy with acronyms!

The old-timers didn't need a glossary but it was helpful for the new hires.

I wrote a little Shell program to go through a document, identify all the potential acronyms, compare them with a database of known (to me) acronyms and then produce a glossary from the results. My boss there was a big programming fan and Bell Labs had all kinds of courses one could take. Often the same acronym would be used for different things so I modified the program to also include the page the acronym was on and highlight it in bold so I could double check them all.

Some people used their programming skills to make sure the severs (DEC minis) would crash around noon every Friday, basically a simple loop to create new files until all the memory was full, so we all got Friday afternoon off, lol.

Anyway, I have some sympathy for people coping with acronyms.

My Achilles heel is spelling - I probably spend more time correcting what I just posted than it took me to write it in the first place. My fingers can't keep up with my brain and my brain wants to spell thing phonetically, which doesn't work so well with English, so they tell me (my editors).

Besides being an engineer (MSCEE) I am also a lawyer (JD) and have worked in the patent field since 1985. Don't get me started on all the Latin phrases used in the law! Try figuring out acronyms for Latin phrases! A real mind-numbing experience, but those law text books were a great cure for insomnia.

Enuf said.

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