EVSE cable has a mind of its own

Maybe this will help?
My Nissan Leaf Forum • View topic - How to wrap your EVSE/other cables! (You're doing it wrong!)

Ingineer on MNL is aka pEEf here on Priuschat.

 

personally i use the cord pro organizer that's linked in my mods thread. however, i have discovered that if i don't unwrap it fully, the cord can get pretty warm.

 

mine coils very nicely. even in 35 degree weather, i have no kinks or twists. i wonder if warranty would cover it?

 

The EVSE definitely has a warranty but I have my doubts about a dealer willing to replace it just because it's twisted. My 2¢.

 

maybe if you go to the dealer and have them compare it to one from another car?

 

The best way to keep hand rolled wires and devices alike is the one shown in the video, over- under with a finger twist.
I had been using this method for the last 40 years and became 2nd nature while fiddling with extension cords, cat 5, and mic cables in staging set-ups. Never a kink...

 

Mine is also kinda "kinky". I leave it out all the time in the garage and plug/unplug every day. Over the last several weeks it has developed a "mind of it's own". I think I am twisting it without realizing when plugging it in and disconnecting.

 

Bisco,
Your cable coils nicely, but how do you coil it?
I do the over/under method. It works well, although the cold hardens the cable.
I don't like the video, since I don't coil it with just 2 fingers, but it gets the point across.

 

i coil it the old fashioned way, laying it in the back of the hatch, brick first and then slowly coiling and twisting, rotation the other end as i go. i don't have to uncoil it much at work because i can park right below my office window. there's a spigot there so i hung a 4" pvc pipe fitting on it to hang the evse on. it hasn't gotten very cold here and it spends most of the time in the garage between 45-50 degrees, still flexible. however, the 30 amp cable i got from the open evse project is pretty stiff!