[Vinson]

I have a JuiceBox 40 at one house and a Lectron V-box 40 at the other house.
I charge at work also. They have strings of 120v plugs for diesel vehicles on the fence line at every plant parking lot. What I found was I really disliked using the evse that came with the bolt because of changing it from 120 to 240 and pulling it out of the car way to much. After I decided that I really like electric vehicles and I plan on using them from now on I started to make everything that involves ev's convenient and easy to use as well as plan for future ev vehicles.
The JuiceBox I purchased because I can adjust the amps in single digit numbers from 6 to 40 from my JuiceBox app to charge with my solar output. GM installed this 50 amp circuit.
The V-box 40 can only be adjusted by taking it off the wall and turning a screw in the back and it has pre set amounts like 16, 24, 32, and 40 amp settings which works great at that house. I do like the digital readout and it has no wifi capabilities.
The evse that came with the car will do everything you want just not conveniently in my use.

 

[Vinson]

That's nice being able to take days to charge. Lol
One day I'll be able to do that also. At least I hope.

 

[Vinson]

The manufacturers need to make the car capable of allowing the user to control the amps you can give the car. And if your not going to do that then at least provide a evse that can adjust the amps so users can use dryer plugs etc.
How often are you going to charge your car and this isn't priority.
That is a big negative with the evse that comes with the bolt.

 

[Vinson]

Grizzle-e Avalanche edition just arrived. Got a factory refurb with full warranty. Not a scratch on it! $330 Black Friday special $30 off, $30 shipping! I went with this for the Amp DIP switch flexibility. My house is only 100AMP and my electrician calculated I could safely use a 30A breaker on my garage sub. I am dialing back to 24A (80%) to the car, about 18 MPH, plenty for 90 mile RT commuting.

I think 24 amps is a good setting to use. When I warm my car up in the morning after the initial start up it runs all the heating devices in my car without using the car's battery it seems. My evse has a digital display of the amps and it doesn't exceed the 24 amps the 15 to 20 minutes It's warming up the car. It uses 24 amps and probably more for less than a minute then varies between 6 to about 15 amps the whole time. But my car is in a garage.

 

[Vinson]

My Lectron V-box has an off and on switch. I like that feature.

 

[Vinson]

I just can't think of a reason why I would ever turn it off?

Because they put a on and off switch on it. Lol
When my bolt was in the bump shop for a month I turned it off. I like the switch it's convenient.