Tesla Universal Won’t Connect Back To Holster

[FloridaMan655321]

Had an issue this morning I figured I would post in case anyone else has this issue.
Had the truck plugged in overnight and in the morning I disconnected and went to plug the cable back into the Tesla holster (whatever it’s called) and it wouldn’t take. It wouldn’t latch on at all.
I flipped the breaker thinking a reboot might help, but it didn’t. I then flipped the breaker off and went on to walk my dog, thinking maybe a ‘cold reboot’ would fix it. It did not. Also, it wouldn’t take with no power to the Wallcharger.

I then connected it back to the truck, opened the Tesla app and told it to start charging again. Nothing to charge obviously so it stopped right away, then it was able to connect back into the holster.

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[Heliian]

Why would it have an electrically actuated lock?

 

[RLXXI]

Why would it have an electrically actuated lock?

To prevent a very possible and extremely nasty high voltage DC arc flash.

 

[FloridaMan655321]

Why would it have an electrically actuated lock?

RLXXI mentioned a safety concern, but the Tesla universal wall mount has the adapter built in. So you either take the regular NACS cable out, or press a button and it will have the adapter for our vehicles.

https://shop.tesla.com/product/universal-wall-connector

Kind of shows in the pictures.

 

[Heliian]

To prevent a very possible and extremely nasty high voltage DC arc flash.

We are talking about a level2 evse here, there is no lock on the truck.

 

[RLXXI]

We are talking about a level2 evse here, there is no lock on the truck.

If you've ever disconnected a high voltage dc circuit under load and lived, you would understand, and by high voltage dc, I mean anything over 48v.

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