Charger will not work with Tesla Model 3

[lockyIE]

Hi there,

There is a charger in my workplace that works and charges all other EV's but won't work with any Tesla's Model 3
I was just wondering if anyone has experienced this before?

I've tried changing the amps and plugging out and in the charger multiple times.
I will say the charger is about 7/8 years old.

Any help is much appreciated.

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[lockyIE]

 

[Soul Surfer]

New member,
Please provide more details model year and spec. This looks like a L2 charger. What are you using as the converter? Are you in North America or somewhere else? No idea where Eire is. If you are on NACS and using an adapter, your adapter may be defective. Try a different one. If it is Tesla OEM, they might replace it. Good luck.

 

[father_of_6]

Seems like the message in the car tells you everything you need to know.

My guess is that something is wrong with the equipment, but Tesla is the only one that declines to charge because of that. Could be wrong though.

Are you able to charge at other L2 chargers? (home / 240v chargers)

 

[Cosmacelf]

Hi there,

There is a charger in my workplace that works and charges all other EV's but won't work with any Tesla's Model 3
I was just wondering if anyone has experienced this before?

I've tried changing the amps and plugging out and in the charger multiple times.
I will say the charger is about 7/8 years old.

Any help is much appreciated.

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Looks like you’re in Ireland (Us yanks generally don’t know what Eire is, I just happened to collect stamps as a kid, so I do know).

You might get more intelligent responses in a regional sub forum. Respondents here generally tend to be from North America and your charging setup is different on your side of the world.

 

[davewill]

This used to come up in the early days of J1772 EVSEs. The control pilot is supposed to have an 1kHz signal ranging from -12v to +12v. Some of the early EVSEs (for example, the one Nissan supplied with the 1st Gen LEAF), cheated and used an 0v to +12v control pilot. Most cars were happy to accept that, but some, particularly the Tesla Model S of the time, was not.

I wouldn't be surprised if modern Tesla's still acted the same way...after all it's technically correct.

I know that the Euro standard uses the same control pilot signal, and it wouldn't surprise me if some old EVSE there did the same thing.