CHAdeMO

Rob Seastrom rs at seastrom.com
Wed Jul 8 05:23:55 CDT 2015


Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> writes:

> [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAdeMO]]
> Quick charging electric vehicles. 

What about it?  It works.  My Leaf has both a J1772 connector and a
CHAdeMO connector up front.  There are even a fair number of CHAdeMO
chargers around though they're nowhere near as popular as J1772 EVSE.

The connector is disturbingly large; it's like plugging in a can of
Coke.  I'll admit to backing away a little bit the first time I saw
"392 volts 106 amps" on the display...

One thing that scares me just a little bit - J1772 is bog simple and
has a dumb protocol, but the CHAdeMO connector includes lines to talk
directly to your CANbus.  Plugging one's car into random CANbus
connectors strikes me as a lousy idea.

-r



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