Not Sure If Smoke Is Being Blown Up My...

[Tommm]

Figured it out. When they did the extension they added two home runs. One to the hot tub, and one to the basement breaker. Since I hadn't looked at the main box in a while I knew they added 100A, but I forgot they were split at the main, not at the "new" box.

I picked up a 30A breaker for the charger and will run a 50A home run in a few months when my wife has the work she wants done.

 

[Frank Pierson`]

Thanks. I was quiet while he shoveled that bull manure at me. My buttox was burning from all the smoke he was blowing up it!

What is odd is that the electrical system worked fine at 32A with the red car, and now a few months later with no change, it is tripping at 16A. I got the message on the dash that it was not accepting a charge. The common problem was the same wiring and same Juice Box that charged the red SE at 32A wasn't charging this car, and the same wiring with a different charger also wasn't charging the car. That is why I insisted that the dealer use my BMW charger on their 220 wall outlet to charge the car. Since it took the charge, and I don't have a second EV to charge with my setup, and it isn't an issue with the grid (phew glad we eliminated that ) I have to look into my electrical system.

Here are pictures of my setup from Juice Box to main breaker (the 80A on the bottom left).

I think I see you first problem. In the sub panel the wires to you 14-50 outlet seem to be wired one to the 50 amp 2 pole breaker and one to a 15 amp single pole above the br2 pole breaker. But The sub panel is only a 40 amp feed from your main panel. Then you have all the single pole loads to add. Also the wires from the main to the sub are smaller than your charging outlet.