Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Electric Vehicle Charging and Cat SafetyChristopher Howell OpenEVSE started in February 2011 with a simple experiment to try to generate the J1772 pilot signal on an Arduino One experiment lead to another to another until a prototype J1772 compatible controller was born With lots of feedback and interest a few boards were offered to other hardware hackers What started as 6 boards built in the first batch turned into many thousands... Today, OpenEVSE powers charging stations from many manufactures all over the world. OpenEVSE What is OpenEVSE? Does EVSE stand for something? What is the story behind you getting into Electric Vehicle Chargers?  Design Generating the SAE J1772 pilot signal from an Arduino. Why Arduino? What kind of regulations do you have to deal with? What approvals or markings does your product have? Are the kits approved? Kits Have you seen much interest in these? I would think most people just want a working final product. Safety concerns? Compatibility with vehicles? Going the other way?