I never figured this would happen (EVSE)

[tortuga]

I knew this was possible in theory, just never thought people would start doing it, using a EVSE as a general purpose 240V outlet in a garage.
This guy explains how and why:

 

[don_resqcapt19]

That supports my idea that the charger is a controller and the actual outlet is the vehicle end of the cord.

 

[ModbusMan]

That would track with this thread I started, where the suspicion is the controllers have CCID, but not much else.

 

[ptonsparky]

That simplified chargers for me.

 

[LarryFine]

I have a question triggered by his mention of two-way power flow:

When powering a home from a vehicle, how is the neutral derived?

 

[jaggedben]

I have a question triggered by his mention of two-way power flow:

When powering a home from a vehicle, how is the neutral derived?

An autotransformer, AFAIK in the applications I'm aware of. (No pun intended.)

Since DC is taken from the vehicle it's really up to the inverter to provide the neutral. So it could also be done with synced inverters.

There are very few actual vehicle-to-home off-grid setups out there.

 

[LarryFine]

Aha. "Neutral by others"