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A power panel in your garage? That's almost like cheating! 🙂 My panel is in the finished part of my basement, which is the opposite side of my house from the garage. I had to run conduit in the most creative way possible to only have to make one hole in the finished basement, which I covered with an access panel. It was a huge amount of work. Not to mention 5 sticks of 10' 1" PVC conduit, 2 runs of 60' of 6 AWG THHN (10AWG for the ground), it was easily $500 in parts, on top of the EV charger. So my installation was more like $1,000.

Yeah, I’ll be sure to do this next weekend by myself. Are you serious? Anyone can do this?

Thank you my first time installing a breaker thanks to this video. Was super simple took me about 2 hours appreciate it

the violation is he has a cybertruck ….. why

My Charger at first output 48A.after 1 month go down to 40A? what do i need to do please? Thank you

Thanks, very useful as I am replacing my NEMA 14-50 with a gen 3 wall charger to get a faster charge on the Cybertruck. 👍

Meta: what kind of microphone is that? Really impressed by how low profile it is. Great video, but I'm all thumbs. I would never dare 😳

As someone currently taking an Electrician pre apprenticeship program, this is cool stuff.

Has anyone have there Net energy metering yearly bill go up?

Not easy when your electric box is 40 feet away in a finished basement

You should have shown the setup information to get the 48amps.

Excellent work on this video. Again, i stress talking with your local building inspectors on these. Some jurisdictions have shifted to only allow "use " cable.
Also, if you install a receptacle you must install gfci protection for that receotacke, no matter what the unit contains.

Excellent content as always. Continued Success.

even though Tesla wall connector pulls 48A you still have your 60A breaker higher than the wire which is rated for 55A. The question is does it matter for safety reasons, not code, if I need to run the wire 30 feet.

thanks for some great tips.

Older homes in Tucson, built during 50s-60s only had 60 amp 220 total power. Long before everyone had A/C, dryers, etc. Ramping up to 200 Amp costs a fortune if you have underground wiring.

How many feet is the cord?

Will this unit work outdoors?

too bad you bought the world's dumbest vehicle.

meanwhile in the countries with 220-240V you can plug directly into any plug and do not care about charger at all. what a scam US is. Everything is made the way they gonna sell you services non stop

Nice video, many thanks. Just wonder why this installation is coming g from a SUB PANEL, because TESLA recommends never to do that, and instead directly from the MAIN PANEL.

Thank you so much! Great information.

Anyone know what an electrician would charge for this install. I’m not an owner just researching. TIA

Chill in the code violation call outs. Perhaps violated the panel clearance code also. Can all be argued in interpretation. What's done is done

We just had an electrician do it. He also added the solar panels and the teslas big battery. Now we can fast charge. It was really easy, all I had to do it point with my finger.

How are you liking your Cybertruck? Have you had any buyer's remorse over the past couple of months with all that's going on in the political world here in the US? I'm a MY LR owner. My wife would prefer we sell it, but that's not going to happen. A friend of mine had one for 1-1/2 years and just sold it and bought a Hyundai Ionic5. Crazy times we live in.

What gauge wire did you use for the 60a breaker to pull 48amp? I’ve seen people say 6Awg but ave also seen 4Awg?

hi, Wonder if I can change from 48amp down to 24 amp on the screen with the same set up Home charger?

When you are installing the charger for the Tesla . Do you have to change the panel , our panel is 100 do we have to change it?

Typical installation cost ranges from $799 to $1,999. We also created a video addressing this FAQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIJYv8BVZI

Tesla manuel said no need for gound cable. watched other Video and they left tesla ground not connected and the romex 6 cauge cable different

Safety tips: 
1. Turn off the breaker at the main panel BEFORE removing the cover of the sub panel.
2. Install the cover back on the panel BEFORE turning on the power at the breaker of the main panel, then turn on the breaker at the sub panel.

3. Test the voltage at the wall connector (that's where it REALLY counts for your installation) instead of at the breaker panel, then turn off the breaker before you install the Tesla main unit onto the back plate. Note that this voltage test is the only instance where you have the chance to get zapped if you are following these tips.

For those that have 100A panels or all electric houses most can get by with buying a charger that can be configured to charge level 2 at only 20-30 amps. Especially if you are only charging overnight and only to 80%. I charged my first ev, a Nissan Leaf, with level 1 for 7 years (about 5 miles per hour charge).