{"id":751,"date":"2013-08-22T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=751"},"modified":"2013-08-22T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:31:11","slug":"leviton-evses-and-bmw-active-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/leviton-evses-and-bmw-active-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviton EVSEs and BMW Active E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers may note that I reported a video many months ago regarding some weird grinding noises when I plug my Active E to a Ford branded Leviton charger at a dealership. \u00a0It would start the charge, but this really unnerving grinding sound occurs. \u00a0The first time this happened, I unplugged my Active E and left the dealership without much of a fuss.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&#038;photo_secret=d330974490&#038;photo_id=8631648583\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I experienced the same grinding sounds months later at ANOTHER Ford dealership. \u00a0This time, it was during the process of assisting my mother look for her first EV. \u00a0Which resulted in <a title=\"Even grandmothers can be rEVolutionary! (or Welcome mom to the rEVolution!)\" href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/2013\/07\/even-grandmothers-can-be-revolutionary-or-welcome-mom-to-the-revolution\/\">her choice<\/a> of the 2013 Nissan Leaf SV in Ocean Blue. \u00a0This time, I needed the charge, so I left it in while we did our test drive and negotiations. \u00a0Apart from the grinding noise, the car did take a charge and that was that.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the pending removal of access to BMW&#8217;s EVSE when the i3 is launched, I have started looking at several &#8220;transportable&#8221; EVSEs and decided on purchasing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00DG1479A\/\">Leviton EVB40-PST<\/a>. \u00a0This is a 40Amp 9.6kw EVSE that uses a NEMA 6-50 plug to deliver 40 Amps and was a good way to future protect from chargers that are up to 9.6kw and greater than the 6.6kw chargers out there. \u00a0The Active E was rated at 7.2kw and I wanted to make use of that and the i3 is supposed to be at 7.4kw and I wanted to be ready. \u00a0So, I had my electrician wire up another EVSE location a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like there is an incompatibility between the Leviton and ActiveE. \u00a0The symptoms are similar to the ones found at Ford. \u00a0However, this time right after the grinding sound starts, the fault light comes on and the EVSE stops charging.<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess I&#8217;m returning this one to Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers may note that I reported a video many months ago regarding some weird grinding noises when I plug my Active E to a Ford branded Leviton charger at a dealership. \u00a0It would start the charge, but this really unnerving grinding sound occurs. \u00a0The first time this happened, I unplugged my Active E and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/leviton-evses-and-bmw-active-e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leviton EVSEs and BMW Active E<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,14],"tags":[87,147,153,194,314,465,466],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activee","category-evse","category-public-charging-station","tag-activee","tag-bmw","tag-bmwi","tag-charging","tag-ev-charger","tag-leviton-evb40","tag-leviton-evse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}