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Start Charging and Monitor Progress

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I PUT THE WORLD’S FIRST DC FAST CHARGER IN A HOME! | DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ELECTRICIAN FAMILY

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What happens here

After connecting the CCS plug, the user interacts with the portable charger's touchscreen display to initiate the charging process. The screen shows the current State of Charge (SOC) of the van's battery (48%). The charger then performs communication protocols (control pilot, plug pilot signals) with the vehicle to ensure safe and proper operation before converting the 20kW AC input into DC power for the vehicle.

Goal: Activate the DC fast charger and observe initial charging parameters.

Tools and materials

  • Electric Van Ford E-Transit — Receiving the charge

What they say

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What's this called? >> This is a portable DC fast charger. Uh you have to contact us if you are interested in something like that. Nobody can just buy this to the average consumer? Um they can uh but you know, you have to really be careful. These aren't that cheap. So uh it's not like something you get on Amazon. Mhm. Okay, let's plug that one in. So it was uh 2:54, right? >> Yeah. All right, so let's unplug this and let's plug this guy in. Now on the screen here it'll say start charging. Yeah. So we're going to do that right now. I'm going to hit start charging. Careful. It's authorizing so it's communicating between itself. So it's doing the control pilot signal, plug pilot signal. Once it's satisfied, then this will convert 20 kW of AC Mhm. to DC. You can hear it now, we're charging up. Oh wow. That is awesome. >> So it's saying right here state of charge 48%. Oh wow. That is awesome. Tell me how much energy we're using. So now go look in and see it was 2:54. Yeah. Go see what it looks like. Let me check.

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