Charging stops within a few minutes with wall connector

[DrShah]

Working perfectly I think when I closed the garage on top of the cable that’s when it would stop. I just ended up squeezing both EVs inside and both charge flawlessly. Appreciate everyone’s insight/recs.

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[mongo]

Working perfectly I think when I closed the garage on top of the cable that’s when it would stop. I just ended up squeezing both EVs inside and both charge flawlessly. Appreciate everyone’s insight/recs.

Glad it's working, but that is weird. In your initial post you show the door partly open and the WC indicator is blue. ?‍

 

[DrShah]

Glad it's working, but that is weird. In your initial post you show the door partly open and the WC indicator is blue. ?‍

yes, originally I tried closing the door several times and couldn’t get it to close properly and just left it open and it still wouldn’t work at the time

 

[yohst]

Tesla allows Gen 3 WC to share a breaker
https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tes.../gen-3-wall-connector-installation-manual.pdf

Yes you are correct, though the max combined current in such case is 48A (60A branch circuit). Didn’t think of that as my set up is two wall chargers, one at 32A, the other at 48A and i can run them at full at the same time as they are on a 100A combined. Each is behind a breaker and the combo is also.

 

[mbrockus]

Glad you got it working. Still curious how the garage door is affecting your charge as my cable is routinely under the garage door while charging the truck. I wonder if you have a damaged wire in the cable that only presents the issue when you have the cord laying in a certain orientation? I've seen a situation like that on commercial aircraft where you have a bad wire in a bundle and when you pull on the bundle the issue disappears and reappears when you move it back.

 

[DrShah]

hey guys, I figured out what the problem was. Just wanted to update you all so you don’t run into the same problem. I had some third-party app that was scheduled for off peak charging. I uninstalled it and zero problems since then. it was not the garage door or the cable being closed on top of it.

 

[mongo]

hey guys, I figured out what the problem was. Just wanted to update you all so you don’t run into the same problem. I had some third-party app that was scheduled for off peak charging. I uninstalled it and zero problems since then. it was not the garage door or the cable being closed on top of it.

Well that makes a lot more sense!
Thanks for closing the loop.

 

[Kryptek]

 

[Crissa]

if there's not a sufficient strain relief loop, the door could pull on the cable; and if there's not sufficient padding on the weather seal of the door, it could slowly damage the cable over time.

Just something to be aware of!

There was also someone else who had a bent pin in their connector that created a situation like this where the truck would lose contact with the EVSE.

-Crissa

 

[its2kito]

Do you have scheduled charging programed? I believe if you do, this is the behavior you’d see.

Yes Crissa (Ddanis60) is correct. I’ve had my wall charger for 4-months. I had left a scheduled charge from last week. The wall charger would stop, turn to a blue light, then stop. Once I deleted the schedule charge, the charger worked. I need a tutorial on scheduled charges, preconditioning schedule and stop charging schedule. It’s all confusing to me.

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