How To Install A 240 Volt Level 2 Outlet – Electric Car / Welder
Welcome back to Clown’s Garage. Welcome back to Clown’s Garage. In this video, I’ll show you how to install an an electric vehicle outlet. So, this is the outlet I’m putting in. This is a 220 outlet by Hubble, part number HBL 9450A. This a 50 amp outlet. Uh, electric vehicles are continuous. Amperage draws. So, you need something that can handle that. Continuous amperage draw. This has the green little EV symbol on it, and that’s what you want on it when you buy one of these. And we’re also putting this. You want a deep box for that one. This is part number 19 L559. And then we’re also putting this face plate on it. And that’s part number 3L R95. Uh we’re putting this in the garage. So NEC code says you have to use a GFCI breaker. This is a 50 amp breaker with a GFCI on it. It’s like a trip. And we’re also putting 63 cable ROMX 50T. Now, in order to get the size of the cable that you need and the size breaker, well, the breaker you’ll need um at least 125% more of what the amperage draw you’re going to have. So, if you look at this, this is from this this this particular car is a Mercedes uh 2026 GL 350e. GLC 350e. And over here it says the continuous draw is 40 amps. Right here you can see that this maximum current 40 amps max continuous. So 125% more on top of that will give you the breaker size. That’s 50 amp. Now for the cable you have to be careful because it’s it’s the amount of run you’re going to have. So, how many feet you’re going to have until the out from the br from the box to the to the outlet. The longer run you have, there’s a chance you can have a voltage drop. So, you always want the cable that’s rated for the amount of feet you’re going to use. U there are tables for that, charts for this online. You can also ask chat GPT. Uh you could you could put into chat GPT the the amount of feet you’re going to use and the amount of continuous amperage draw on the car. It’ll give you um what gauge cable you’ll need. So, this is what we’re going to put in. Obviously, you’re going to need um some tools. I have a hole cutter here. I also have a inchb torque wrench. Uh we’re going to use that on the breaker to tighten that down and also on the outlet. So, let’s begin. So, always make sure the power is off to your box. Um, this is a sub panel. So, the main panel is in the house and I shut that off and there’s no power coming here. I already checked everything. So, this goes into here. And this goes in very tough. Push it in there. Now, the neutral side of this breaker, I connected a six gauge on here because it wasn’t enough to run it over. Put that over there and tighten that down. And that’s good. Okay. Now, on the panel, take out these two slots here. EV EV. Okay. So, I’m roughly going to go 6 in down right in the middle through these studs. Uh, I’m going to make the hole there and run the ROMX through. Um, if you want to put conduit like this, you have to get the single wires, the thhn wires. So, but you have to do everything to code. You have to find out what the code is in your area. But that’s what I’m going to go ahead and do now and run the wire through. [Applause] Okay. Okay, so that fits. You don’t want that too tight. You want enough room in there, or else the cables going to get hot. Um, and you also want it in the middle of the st of the beam, the stud. If you go too close to the edge, you’re going to have to put a metal protector here. Um, but I’m just go ahead and do all the studs now. So, all the holes are done. Now, it’s just a matter of feeding this through. All right. So, the wire is in place as you can see up there. Everything is through and the wires close to the box there. Now, for the box [Music] And over here we could put these And that’s good. Cut it right there. Okay, now I’m tighten this down over here. It’s good. Give it a tug. That’s good. Now, over here in the back of this, you see where it says green? That’s the ground. It goes back in there. And then white is the neutral. Goes in the bottom. Then you have the two power wires, the black and the red. So, it’s very easy connection. Um, this going to go in like this. So, you have a lot of space in this box. It’s nice and big. So, you just want to see how you’re going to route this. Um, probably going to do one of these loops around into here for the green. So, I’m go ahead and route these wires the way I want to route them here. So, I’m going to do the green wire first. Sorry, the green is the ground in this case. So, you need a 316 Allen here. And these have to be torqued down to 75 inch pounds, which I’ll do once I snug everything down. So, that is this one here. Okay. Now, a neat little thing here. This has a strip gauge here, and it tells you how much to strip it. So, you got to strip it up to there. This has insulation here. So, you want this much stripped. So, in this case, we want to strip right over there. where my thumb is. So, I’m just going to go around with this. Clowny is the best tripper. So, I do like to strip him. Okay. Once you strip it, it’s a good idea to twist it a little bit. Put in where it says white. Tighten it down. Go and torque that down to 75 inch pounds. Might as well do the ground while I’m at it. Okay, that’s good, too. Okay, now I’m just going to do the rest now. Same as the other ones. Okay, this the last one. And we’re done. A little secret how you get this off. It kind of wedges in there. Put a long extension. Comes right out. Okay, now everything’s torqued down and it’ll go right in with plenty of room to spare in there. All right, now I’m just going to put this on. Four screws. And the four are done. Okay. Now, all these screws come with the face plate and they also come with the long ones. So, put those in as well. And we’re done. Okay. Okay, I’m going to put some 1/2 in clamps here just along the stud. Okay, that’s good. Now I’m go put some more up there. And we’re done. So, for the Hubble outlet, you need a 316 Allen. But for this uh square D 50 A breaker, you need a number two square to use on that. So, that’s what we’re going to use on that. Okay. Now, pop a hole in the box. And we’re good. Go through the hole, baby. Get it in. Get it all the way in. You sound a little horse there, camera girl. I had something stuck in my throat. Sounds like a personal problem. I still think it’s hot though. Okay. So now the two loads, the black and the red go on the edges and the neutral from the load from the outlet goes right in the middle. So I’m go ahead and do that. Now little trick here. As you’re separating this, you could just grab it and twist it. It’ll twist the strands out. Just like that. I took it out to make it a little easier to insert. So, okay. So, that’s good. Just going to torque down the rest. Just a little FYI, that square tip stripped one of the terminals on there and I used a flathead and it did the same achieved the same thing. So, if that strips, just use a flathead cuz it’s there’s there’s also provision for a flathead on there on that terminal. Okay, now everything’s torqued down. Go ahead and install this Okay, it’s in. The only last one we got to do is the ground. So, I’m put that in right now. And now the ground. And everything is connected. I’m just going to put some clamps here to clamp this down. And everything is done. Can electricity is on the main panel. Turn this on. Want to test this. Push this down. It should trip in the middle. That’s good. So, put it back to off and back to on. Let’s go to the outlet now to test this. This should be blue. Continuously blue when you plug this in. So, let’s see what happens. It’s good. Let’s plug it to in the car and plug her in. And she’s charging, folks. So, that’s how you install an EV outlet. Thanks for watching. Subscribe to my channel. Like me and share me. See youa.
In this video i show you how to wire and install an EV outlet / Plug. I use a hubbell electric vehicle outlet with 6/3 Romex and a Square d 50 amp breaker. How to wire a GFCI 50 amp double pole breaker. This outlet can also be used for a welder.
nema 14-50. The car is a mercedes glc 350e , but this can use for any electric vehicle,Tesla, ford audi, bmw
Items I used in the video –
6/3 romex 50ft :
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Romex-63950032-6-3-50-Black-Stranded-CU-SIMpull-NM-B-Wire/180358246?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222222000000000&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=e&wl1=o&wl2=c&wl3=10352200394&wl4=pla-1103028060075&wl5=97784&wl6=&wl7=&wl10=Walmart&wl11=Online&wl12=180358246_0&wl14=wallmart%206%2F3%20romex%2050ft&veh=sem&gclid=dffddcbb744216e26f18b5ae49c31416&gclsrc=3p.ds&msclkid=dffddcbb744216e26f18b5ae49c31416
Hubbell HBL950A 50 amp EV outlet:
Deep electrical box Raco 260:
50 amp Square d GFCI double pole breaker:
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Square-D-Homeline-50-Amp-2-Pole-GFCI-Circuit-Breaker-HOM250GFICP/100169582?g_store=8465&source=shoppingads&locale=en-US&pla&mtc=SHOPPING-BF-CDP-GGL-D27E-027_008_CIRCUIT_PROT-NA-NA-NA-PMAX-NA-NA-NA-NA-NBR-NA-NA-NEW-NA-Priority2024&cm_mmc=SHOPPING-BF-CDP-GGL-D27E-027_008_CIRCUIT_PROT-NA-NA-NA-PMAX-NA-NA-NA-NA-NBR-NA-NA-NEW-NA-Priority2024-20420576520–&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20420577051&gbraid=0AAAAADq61UeI6O1eRzoNEcrpfx1IFnwYp&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpofLv_ztkAMV-TYIBR2-hAeLEAQYASABEgIPvPD_BwE
Hubbell Raco 888 electrical box cover:
