Philly RAV4 EV
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I purchased a leviton 40 amp station and I was making it a permanent hard wired installation. I opened up the unit and looked at the charging cable and the internal wiring. The charging cable is 6 guage wire capable of handling 50 amps, it is connected to 10 guage internal wiring of the unit which is only capable of handling only 30 amps max. Leviton is not rating this unit properly, I would estimate it at 30 or 32 amps max! I hooked it up to a 30amp breaker to test this and it popped after 20 minutes. If it was truly pulling 40 amps, it would have popped the 30 amp breaker instantly. Did anyone else experience this?
I also used 20 ft. of 10 guage 2 conductor wire connected to the 30 amp breaker, the wire got warm but did not overheat. and that was with 4 hours of charging use.
I also used 20 ft. of 10 guage 2 conductor wire connected to the 30 amp breaker, the wire got warm but did not overheat. and that was with 4 hours of charging use.