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2. If it's outdoors, at least spray the electronics with Fine-L-Kote or similar to keep water vapor out.
3. Those relays look undersized for the load. Look at Grainger for similar ratings. Do not buy power relays on eBay or Alibaba. Current ratings there tend to be wildly exaggerated.
4. Er, overcurrent protection? An approved circuit breaker?
The box in that guy's build is outside and could probably burn to a crisp without hurting anything else. I suspect it would not hurt anything even inside a garage, other than making a lot of smoke and setting off smoke detectors.
This is such a bad DIY project because the costs of screwing up can be burning your house down. This is non-trivial amounts of power. If you spend the money fot an EV, buy something safe and have it professionally installed. Keep the DIY projects to something less dangerous.
Maybe we need a few to burn their own houses down to act as a deterrent and encourage others to stay in their lane.
1. Two words: strain relief. 2. If it's outdoors, at least spray the electronics with Fine-L-Kote or similar to keep water vapor out. 3. Those relays look undersized for the load. Look at Grainger for similar ratings. Do not buy power relays on eBay or Alibaba. Current ratings there tend to be wildly exaggerated. 4. Er, overcurrent protection? An approved circuit breaker?
1. Two words: strain relief. 2. If it's outdoors, at least spray the electronics with Fine-L-Kote or similar to keep water vapor out. 3. Those relays look undersized for the load. Look at Grainger for similar ratings. Do not buy power relays on eBay or Alibaba. Current ratings there tend to be wildly exaggerated. 4. Er, overcurrent protection? An approved circuit breaker?
This is such a bad DIY project because the costs of screwing up can be burning your house down. This is non-trivial amounts of power. If you spend the money fot an EV, buy something safe and have it professionally installed. Keep the DIY projects to something less dangerous.
I'm disappointed at the anti-DIY sentiments here, it's this safety obsessed mentality that got us to where kids can't walk outside by themselves any longer. The box in that guy's build is outside and could probably burn to a crisp without hurting anything else. I suspect it would not hurt anything even inside a garage, other than making a lot of smoke and setting off smoke detectors.
I'm disappointed at the anti-DIY sentiments here, it's this safety obsessed mentality that got us to where kids can't walk outside by themselves any longer. The box in that guy's build is outside and could probably burn to a crisp without hurting anything else. I suspect it would not hurt anything even inside a garage, other than making a lot of smoke and setting off smoke detectors.
The leaps here are way too big.
More like a DIY arson investigation. You might not only burn down your house, but also get in trouble with the law and not receive compensation from your property insurance company. This is a horrendous idea. Just do basically anything else DIY besides high current/voltage electronics.
Congrats to OP on a clean project
source: electrical engineer who writes high performance software you’ve definitely have used
I'm disappointed at the anti-DIY sentiments here, it's this safety obsessed mentality that got us to where kids can't walk outside by themselves any longer. The box in that guy's build is outside and could probably burn to a crisp without hurting anything else. I suspect it would not hurt anything even inside a garage, other than making a lot of smoke and setting off smoke detectors.
Fairly certain most DIY electrical work is strictly verboten in the UK, where the author is located. I would think at a minimum you need approval from the council. Not too dissimilar to the permitting process in the US, but the UK is noticeably more safety-obsessed.