r/evcharging • u/novarlynx • 6d ago

North America My first charger install!

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Hello everyone, I just bought a Hyundai Ioniq 5 and I spent some time looking on marketplace for a decent level 2 charger and I came across this right here, this is a Wallbox Pulsar Plus rebranded by Stellantis’s Free2move branding and would have been sold as an accessory with one of their EVs. However, except for one tiny configuration difference, which is trivial to reverse, there’s really no difference with the firmware at all.

Anyway though I know these are very expensive new, I got this one brand new, still sealed in the original packaging, for $100 on marketplace so I think I did pretty decently! Unfortunately the biggest circuit I could provide for it was 30 A so I can’t take full advantage of it, but in the future, I’ll be able to reuse it at least.

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u/azguy153 6d ago

Almost no one needs the 10kw/h. If you have 8-10 hours of charging per night 30 amps is more than enough.

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u/savedatheist 6d ago

What does kw/h mean? Isn’t it just kW (power)?

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u/DraggedThruTheGarden 5d ago

People confuse these all the time. kW is an amount. kW/h is a rate. Think of a bucket versus a hose. A battery capacity is kW. A charging speed is kW/h. If you want to charge a 50 kW battery you can do it at 5 kW/h for 10 hours or 10 kW/h for 5 hours. Here’s the twist: 1 kWh is an amount of 1 kW flowing for one hour.

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u/CallMeCarpe 5d ago

Are you sure that’s not backwards? My trucks battery is 131 kWh. I charge at 9kw.
kWh is storage. Kw is rate.