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(upbeat music) Welcome back to
What's Inside?
Today, we're going to see what's inside
of the Tesla wall charger.
They just came out with a new one,
this last couple of weeks.
Did you just buy a Tesla and do you actually
need to get one of these?
So, I have one of the old ones
and I have one of the new ones.
We're gonna take both of them apart.
The new one actually doesn't have as many options,
as the old one.
But it may not be as big of a deal,
as what some people think.
But for now, let me show you how we charge our Tesla.
(upbeat music) For the last five years,
all we've done is had a 220 volt little adapter,
put into our garage, just like what we have
inside of our laundry room, I think with our dryer.
That's worked totally fine for us.
This is one of the old wall chargers
and it actually is signed by the man himself, Elon Musk.
This was given as an award gift
for so many referrals that we've given with Tesla.
And we installed the thing
and then we noticed that the plastic is cracked on it.
Which shouldn't affect the way that it functions,
but, I did wanna check out the new one
and see how it works.
So we're gonna test this one out
and test out the new one.
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(dramatic music)
So here's the Tesla (upbeat music)
wall charger.
And you have this little plug.
Let's plug it in and see how fast it actually works.
So our current charger goes to 40 amps.
We had the electricians run a wire all the way
into our garage, for the Tesla wall chargers
and they put it at 40 amps.
So the 40 amps is the max that we get.
The old charger goes all the way up to
80 amps, supposedly.
At first I was a little bothered,
like why would you sell something
for the exact same $500 price,
and you take that energy,
you take it from 80 amps clear down to 48 amps.
But it turns out, all of the current Teslas,
will only charge on a home charger,
to the max of 48 amps.
So Tesla has actually limited the software.
I didn't know this when I talked to my electricians
and I had them install the wall chargers
inside of our house.
So apparently, we're just running 40 amps of power,
to the wall, because, if you look down here,
that's the max that we get, is 40 amps.
So I kind of blew it on that.
But maybe when we put in this wall connector,
we'll actually see the 48 amps.
I'm not sure, but let's take this one apart.
See what's inside of it and then put together the new one
and see what's inside of that.
Then we'll plug it into the car
and see if it actually charges at a higher rate.
Just using the charger that Tesla gives you,
in our house, it gives us 32 amps, or 242 volts, of energy.
(upbeat techno music) This charges the car
pretty quickly basically overnight,
if you're completely empty,
I think it takes us like nine hours
to charge our entire Model X.
The whole time that we've had Teslas,
this has worked perfectly fine
and we've never felt the need
to have one of the Tesla wall chargers.
But now that we're getting a new house
and we have one of the signed Elon Musk wall chargers,
I just decided, let's just get wall chargers
on our entire house.
So the first step is to take off these four screws,
that are bracketing and holding up
this entire wall charger.
It's a little tight where we have it.
So to get to these screws is not the easiest.
(drilling)
Okay so we've taken off the four brackets.
Maybe we need to take the face off of it too.
'Cause it's just stuck on here.
I have a licensed electrician watching us
to make sure that we're safe on this,
because, some projects are not worth the risk.
(snapping)
(exclaiming)
So there's the face.
My electrician says that it was broken
when it came out of the box.
I have a hard time believing that Tesla
sent it to me broken already.
(drilling)
- [Man] All right, so there they are.
- [Host] It's still.
- [Man] So that's just the light right there.
- Okay, oh, there it goes.
Here are all of your wires.
Right now, this is still live,
so we're gonna go to the breaker
and actually turn it off.
But on the outside,
you have this little protective case on it
and the light, just had one little connector
that talks to that.
Taking this thing off through the wall,
we have the ground wire.
Neutral wire.
This is the hot one
and this one's a hot one.
These two you connect together inside of there.
So here's what's inside of the old one.
The old charging cable box.
It's a bit heavy.
(clattering) Good bye old charger.
(relaxing music) Woo, look at this,
is glass, versus the plastic on the other one.
Is the glass more likely to break,
versus the plastic?
You would think that glass would break.
Maybe we need some jerry rig everything to test this thing.
It does win the award for the best looking,
versus the other one.
I mean, that is beautiful.
(relaxing music)
Look at the cable.
Look at how thick it is.
Look at the old one.
Which is kind of nice when you're in the garage.
These old ones get really heavy
when you're pulling them around.
This is similar to the version three super charging cables,
that you see at the new super chargers.
I'm no electrician, but this new box
looks a lot easier to install
from an electrician standpoint.
Like it seems to make more sense,
where this other one,
we're like reaching fingers in
and grabbing these things and capping off
the different wires.
(drilling)
First thing's first.
We gotta take off the old bracket here.
All right.
There's our box with the three cables.
(upbeat techno music)
So here we are.
Here's the beautiful, glass brand new Tesla charger.
We have all the connections in
and it looks pretty safe in there.
(drilling) And, it's much easier
than the old one to put on.
And now we just have to take this thing
and just pop it into place.
One handed, ought to do it.
There we go.
Or we might, why don't you come around
and actually pop it on.
Then we'll test it out (upbeat techno music)
and see, what the charging rate is
compared to the old one.
It should be similar.
But we'll see.
Oh, there we go.
It's already on.
Check it out.
Just set it right on there.
It's not signed by Elon Musk,
but this looks so much better, inside of my garage.
(upbeat techno music)
Okay did it blow up or anything?
- We're good.
Oh, there's lights!
We have one green light.
Okay.
So if we look at here,
standby, it's on standby mode.
So now we need to plug it in
and if it's the same as the other one,
we should be getting three bars.
All right, oh, it's nice and black handle.
Clean.
Does it work, does it work, does it work,
does it work?
It works, it's green!
Okay.
Looks like it's connected.
Estimated charge, hour and 50 minutes.
48 amps.
48 amps?
(upbeat techno music) Okay I may be crazy, but,
was not the other one, the older one
that's supposed to go all the way up to 80 amps,
didn't it go to 40 amps only
and I thought, "Man, we really blew it."
We only put 40 amps of energy to the wall,
when we should've done higher,
if the thing goes up to 80 amps.
But, apparently, I have more energy in there
than I thought because,
this is going to 48 amps and the only thing
that has changed, is that we swapped out the chargers.
We didn't do anything with the electrical outlet.
So I'm kind of confused.
I read that the old one's supposed to go to 80
and it only went to 40.
The new one's supposed to go to a max of 48
and it's actually at the 48.
So is the car software limiting
the other wall charger in there?
I don't know, I mean, I don't know
everything about Teslas and the way everything works,
but a lot of people were complaining about this new charger
that it was gonna be so much slower
than the old ones, but apparently,
48 is the max that you can get with any wall charger
that you put in your house
and this one gets the 48 and the other one
that's signed by Elon Musk,
does not get it.
Do you need to get one of these wall chargers
for your house.
Maybe you just bought a Model 3 or now the Model Y
is coming out and you're thinking,
"This thing is $500.
"I feel like I need it, 'cause I need to charge
"the car at my house."
Well the reality is, yes, you need to charge your car
at your house and you need to charge it all the time,
because, the super charger,
you're rarely going to visit that,
unless you're on road trips.
We've gone five years in our house,
just using the 220 volt, or whatever it's called,
that we got put in for $120 by an electrician.
It's not 48 amps, it's like I think 32 is what it was.
When you're thinking about charging your car overnight,
that is totally sufficient.
So you don't have to buy this for $500.
You just don't have to.
If you have the extra money
and you want it to look dang good on your wall,
then yes, this is fantastic
and it does charge a little bit faster.
But if you're a new Tesla owner,
either one is gonna be too slow
to really give you significant charge
over like an hour period.
(upbeat techno music) When I'm in that situation
where I just need like a quick,
like 50 to 100 miles,
that's when I do stop at my local super charger
and just charge up really quick,
so that I can drive for the rest of the day.
So final thoughts on this charger.
I really, really like it
and it's prettier than the other ones.
The cable just looks kind of like a mess on there.
This is a lot thicker than the newer cables.
This is 24 feet long.
So it's really, really long
and it just kind of looks messy on there.
Then you compare it to the newer charger,
and you can see that the cable goes on there nicely.
It's a lot thinner.
It's still 18 feet long,
which I think is plenty for most garages.
It sits nicely on there because of the cable.
Just the looks alone and the way that it sits on your wall
is another reason why this one is definitely better
than the old one.
I'm definitely not going to get rid of the two other
signed ones by Elon Musk.
Hopefully educated you guys a little bit
on which wall charger you should get for your car
and how to charge your Tesla.
Thanks again to Norton 360 for sponsoring
a portion of today's video.
We'll see you guys around.
Then I gotta figure out what to do
with this signed Elon Musk cover.
It is cracked, but, maybe I'll figure out
a way to give it away or something.
The man himself, Elon Musk.