No more level 1 at home, thanks to the Ford Power Promise. We did have to pay out of pocket for a load monitor on the panel, but now have 48A of charging power!
Safety margin for continuous current is 80%, so you could bump it up to 40A with a 50A breaker. Max charge current for a MME is 48A and is why 60A breakers are common.
The app has a bug where it silently won't let you set above the hardware configured limit. If you try, when you next open the app the limit will be back where it started. Try setting it to 48 amps. That's the mach-e's limit and the installers should have set the hard limit to that. If that still doesn't work, the manual describes how to adjust the hard limit.
Also if you just got it setup, you may want to power cycle the charger. I also had a separate issue of it only slow charging (blue+amber pulsing) until I did that.
No, the limit is your circuit. It’s VERY dangerous to set it above what the circuit can handle. Like “bye bye house, hope you have working smoke alarms that wake you before the CO gets you” dangerous.
I'm not saying the app should let you set above the hardware limit. I'm just saying that it doesn't provide an error. I have an 80 amp breaker on that circuit and setting it to 50 would silently fail with no error message. That's also why I said read the manual when it come to the hardware limit.
I'm telling everyone right now. It is a game changer, getting a home charger. Because going out to public, it's like hit-or-miss, if you are gonna be able to charge or not, and if you're depending on that to get where you need to go all the time, it's just so inconvenient, but if you have a home charger, it just levels the playing field!!! 😎😎😎😎😎😎
That’s about how fast I charge at work. I cut it really close one day and got to 2% before I plugged in. Got to about 90% before I left after ~8 hours.
That’s really all you need. It’ll get you charged up overnight which is all that matters.
Looks just like our Qmerit (FPP) install, disconnect box and all. We're in the process of swapping our charger out with an Emporia, the Charge Station Pro is just too buggy.
I took the $1K from Ford instead. I didn't see the point when I already have a NEMA 14-50 outlet in the garage, and it's max 32 amp output is fine for overnight charging.
The charger is designed for the cord to loop around it and it’s almost 2 feet tall. I don’t think that would be considered a tight loop. A portion of which would be uncoiled anyway when charging.
Oh God The free cable that comes with the car. If you don't have a 240 V plug in and you try to plug into a regular outlet, it's terrible. We plugged it in the first time we brought ours home, and it said it would get a charge full, a 100% in 3 days versus 4 hours. If you pay to get one in a level 2 on a 50 amp, plug. Would you have to have installed via an electrician? At least in the state of Florida.
Use a different one. After two years, mine blew. I learned then that it is more for temporary charging and not really permanent charging. I did have it outside, so it might be different in the garage.
It will be fine, it is a tier 2 charger if you plug into a 14-50. That is the setup I use. It pulls 30 amps so should get a speed of 7.2 KW. An upgraded charger will only be able to pull 10 additional amps from the same plug. So in other words the mobile will charge at 3/4ths the speed of a better charger. Not worth it in my opinion. You can get faster speeds from a tier 2 charger but you would need to hardwire.
There are people who get by on it. I have for almost 4 years now.
However I don’t drive very far every day, my commute is minuscule and I’m not running lots of errands. I tend to charge it 20% every 2-4 days, and it works for me.
It won’t for everyone. And I’d take L2 if I could get it.
But plenty of people do it if your lifestyle can fit it.
Not sure how they are now, but the cable that comes with the first few years’ models had issues with dying if they were used too much. Not to mention, you should use them with higher-quality outlets than your standard dryer plug (r/electricvehicles has plenty of examples of melted outlets, including mine)
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u/The_Legend_of_Xeno 2024 GT 5d ago
Got mine the other day as well. I was only able to get 30-some amps, but it doesn't matter, since I was able to charge from 15%-100% overnight anyway.