Campground charging checklist? What do I need?

[Firn]

WTF?

Yes in the end it is just a contactor, you can put whatever voltage and amperage you want on it and it will pass through. You could wire it directly to your incoming power lines if you wished for a really high voltage experience. I don’t think that you should.

Shade tree engineering works for ICE vehicles (or used to work) but it is too damn dangerous to mess with the safeties of EVs. They are very safe by design, but they are not intrinsically safe so I really don’t think that anybody should recommend hacks to get around the safety and design of any components associated with charging.

You may be very smart and all that but unless you have disassembled the EVSE and understand exactly how it works - and can guarentee that some engineering change down the line doesn’t change your assumptions - nobody should be recommending violating the basic common sense safety protocols and practices (such as a 120V plug ONLY supplying 120V) that the engineering department relies on. Especially when the proper EVSE is just an Amazon order away.

Calm down for a minute.

That info was provided to show that the EVSE does not just look at 120v vs 240v to determine the amperage to provide. I neither recomended it, or recomended against it, I only stated the point as it was relayed by others on the forum.

If you want to debate the safety of it go ahead, but probably best to do so in the actual thread that discusses it.

As for the rest, it kind of feels like you are raising a big stink about this to draw attention away from being wrong and to avoid the point that was made, which was that the EVSE does in fact support different currents based upon the end used, and does not choose its output based simply on the voltage.

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