kiwi
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- MG4 Trophy LR
Home made V2L cable in time for New Year’s BBQ:
The cable is made out of a Phoenix Contact CCS AC charging cable I scored on a local auction site.
The yellow outdoor weather proof cord socket is from a local hardware.
The cable’s existing 680 ohm ID resistor (sets AC charge rate to 20A) has to be swapped for a 2,000 ohm resistor (sets discharge rate to 2.3 kW max) to suit the MG. Cable works on both my wife’s 2023 ZS EV 51kWh Excite basic trim and my MG4 64kWh Essence (Trophy) visible in the (background.
The resistor goes between PP and PE. I did not loop CP to PP as suggested by others as I wanted to mimic the wiring of the official MG cable.
The supply voltage I measured was 217V. The earth pin is not bonded to the car earth so be careful! Because of this only double insulated appliances only should be used in my view.
Happy new year.
The cable is made out of a Phoenix Contact CCS AC charging cable I scored on a local auction site.
The yellow outdoor weather proof cord socket is from a local hardware.
The cable’s existing 680 ohm ID resistor (sets AC charge rate to 20A) has to be swapped for a 2,000 ohm resistor (sets discharge rate to 2.3 kW max) to suit the MG. Cable works on both my wife’s 2023 ZS EV 51kWh Excite basic trim and my MG4 64kWh Essence (Trophy) visible in the (background.
The resistor goes between PP and PE. I did not loop CP to PP as suggested by others as I wanted to mimic the wiring of the official MG cable.
The supply voltage I measured was 217V. The earth pin is not bonded to the car earth so be careful! Because of this only double insulated appliances only should be used in my view.
Happy new year.