House with Tesla Charger can it be used on a Mustang EV?
Discussion
Kaelic said:
As title, buying a house with an already fitted tesla charger and I have a mustang ev can I get an adaptor type thing? Or is it a whole new charger?
Thanks in advance
Hold up!Thanks in advance
Older Tesla chargers have a set of dip switches when the front panels come off.
The right one is called "legacy setting". You need to set this to "legacy" for it to work on all cars, otherwise it'll only work on Tesla's. Iirc this has a bit more impact in US chargers, but in European (type 2) chargers it's just that.
By default it's disabled, I've enabled it on three chargers so far. All v1 or v2 iirc.
In my experience (tried with VW, Hyundai, Porsche...) the chargers just don't start at all if that switch is in the "wrong" position.
PS: The silver front panel comes off with a tiny Torx Security screw, on one of mine it was driven in too tight and when trying to get it off I broke the front plate and cut my hand open. Just saying, be careful
.My strategy would be to just plug in the car, and if it doesn't start charging, you'll have to flip the switch. But as for the rest, all Tesla chargers should charge any car.
Edited by ZesPak on Wednesday 26th February 17:11
ZesPak said:
Hold up!
Older Tesla chargers have a set of dip switches when the front panels come off.
The right one is called "legacy setting". You need to set this to "legacy" for it to work on all cars, otherwise it'll only work on Tesla's. Iirc this has a bit more impact in US chargers, but in European (type 2) chargers it's just that.
By default it's disabled, I've enabled it on three chargers so far. All v1 or v2 iirc.
In my experience (tried with VW, Hyundai, Porsche...) the chargers just don't start at all if that switch is in the "wrong" position.
PS: The silver front panel comes off with a tiny Torx Security screw, on one of mine it was driven in too tight and when trying to get it off I broke the front plate and cut my hand open. Just saying, be careful.
My strategy would be to just plug in the car, and if it doesn't start charging, you'll have to flip the switch. But as for the rest, all Tesla chargers should charge any car.
Thanks so much probably saved me £1K+ Older Tesla chargers have a set of dip switches when the front panels come off.
The right one is called "legacy setting". You need to set this to "legacy" for it to work on all cars, otherwise it'll only work on Tesla's. Iirc this has a bit more impact in US chargers, but in European (type 2) chargers it's just that.
By default it's disabled, I've enabled it on three chargers so far. All v1 or v2 iirc.
In my experience (tried with VW, Hyundai, Porsche...) the chargers just don't start at all if that switch is in the "wrong" position.
PS: The silver front panel comes off with a tiny Torx Security screw, on one of mine it was driven in too tight and when trying to get it off I broke the front plate and cut my hand open. Just saying, be careful
.My strategy would be to just plug in the car, and if it doesn't start charging, you'll have to flip the switch. But as for the rest, all Tesla chargers should charge any car.
Edited by ZesPak on Wednesday 26th February 17:11
Will report back once in the house
BTW, I've found them very cheap (especially for the one with the 7m lead) but they've been good to us charging several EVs on different locations for over 5 years.
HOWEVER, they don't do load balancing. We have one at one location where, if a car is charging at full tilt (16kw for our fastest charging car) and the heat pump of the building turns itself on, the power goes out.
We've easily mitigated that by using the potentiometer next to the dip switches.
Since it only happened on the Model S, we've set it to "5", which on the three phases it's on would be about 11kw (limit of most cars anyway).
Again, dumb charger, but has been utterly reliable for us and was less than half the price of anything comparable back then.
PS: Read what they say on this official manual on dip switch 2: "DIP Switch Position 2 should always be in the UP position." without any further explanation.
That's what I was dealing with 5 years ago.
HOWEVER, they don't do load balancing. We have one at one location where, if a car is charging at full tilt (16kw for our fastest charging car) and the heat pump of the building turns itself on, the power goes out.
We've easily mitigated that by using the potentiometer next to the dip switches.
Since it only happened on the Model S, we've set it to "5", which on the three phases it's on would be about 11kw (limit of most cars anyway).
Again, dumb charger, but has been utterly reliable for us and was less than half the price of anything comparable back then.
PS: Read what they say on this official manual on dip switch 2: "DIP Switch Position 2 should always be in the UP position." without any further explanation.
That's what I was dealing with 5 years ago.
Edited by ZesPak on Wednesday 26th February 22:43
So how moved in and tried the Tesla charger
Car says charging paused by charging station is there something I am misssing? A way of authenticating myself on the charger or something? I don’t think I can just plug in and start charging or do I need an app or something?
Sorry to be dumb but previous owner didn’t leave any info
Car says charging paused by charging station is there something I am misssing? A way of authenticating myself on the charger or something? I don’t think I can just plug in and start charging or do I need an app or something?
Sorry to be dumb but previous owner didn’t leave any info
It could be a V3 charger with a schedule set. i think it’s the middle light that will flash on the charger when it’s waiting for the schedule. If it’s that then the car is likely to charge overnight as that’s a typical use. You can try talking to the previous seller but they’ll only be able to change it if the charger is still connected to wifi which you may have changed in your home. Failing that, connect to it in setup mode which is hassle and might need you to open it up for the access codes.
If it is a V3 charger (the current model), it’s worth sorting it out and installing the Tesla app on your phone and adding the charger. You’ll be able to control the charger which can be handy.
If it is a V3 charger (the current model), it’s worth sorting it out and installing the Tesla app on your phone and adding the charger. You’ll be able to control the charger which can be handy.
Edited by Gone fishing on Wednesday 5th March 06:40
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