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Old 11-14-2016, 05:53 AM   #176 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary View Post
After looking at some YouTube videos as well as a blog a guy did on adding more chargers to his Nissan Leaf it does look possible to simply tie in a (400V!) solar panel where the cable to the motor controller connects to the battery. More (400V!) batteries could also be connected in parallel to the main battery by the same means. Or, like in the blog, add another J1772 charge port and charge twice as fast with two Level 2 chargers.
But then you'd lose the opportunity to charge really fast at ChaDeMo chargers.

Maybe is something similar to this something for you?


Portable 22kW charger

AC goes in, DC goes out and you can use the existing ChaDeMo port. If your next car has CCS simply swap out the leads.

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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary View Post
Yes. And those Bursa chargers are now cheaper on eBay. If I did add another Leaf battery in the trunk (or put that +600lbs of battery on a trailer) I could use a couple of these chargers to charge up 48kWh's in the normal up-to-4-hours time.

One thing I've noticed is that after 80%, the charging becomes slow. I can charge up from 30% to 80% in just a couple of hours, but then from 80% to 100% in another couple of hours. So the idea of having more level 2 charging stations around would make it faster to just charge up to 80% more or less quickly and then keep going instead of having to charge up to 100% and still not probably make it to the next station.
After 80% the charging slows down to protect the battery. 20-80% can be done in about 20-30 minutes with DC fast charging.
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