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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
So a buyer beware story....
In 2019, we bought a plug-in hybrid minivan. Because we drive a fair bit I thought it may be with it to buy a level 2 charger so we could use electric only driving more as we were draining the battery more than once a week. A purchase this big to save a few dollars in driving was not really a sound financial investment, but I had planned to go all EV so I thought it was a purchase for the future.
One big issue if you have multiple EVs is that if you want multiple level 2 charges you'd need multiple 60 amp lines/breakers in your panel. Having smart chargers that you could adjust the amperage would mean you could use 2 on one circuit and just lower the amps to 25 each or so. There was a JuiceBox 40 smart charger for $900 that fit perfectly. Great app, ability to do lots of customization and if you have 2 of them, you could do dynamic power sharing for a single 60 amp circuit.
We moved to a new home in 2020 and it took me until I bought my f150 lightning about a month ago to get the work done to install it. Super frustrating because the company who made Juicebox had been purchased and changed the server the Juicebox would communicate with so I was left with a dumb charger as it couldn't communicate with the cloud. Finally about 2 weeks ago I got a computer wizard friend and their technical support I got it up and running. Success!
Now this:
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So basically, you've finally got around to installing a dumb charger that
was smart for two weeks.
