What EVSE to replace dead Origin/ChargePoint?

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What EVSE to replace dead Origin/ChargePoint?

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reecho wrote: Inside the earlier version of the Nissan/MMAU EVSE..

Note the transformer. It may be able to be swapped easily for a multivolt version...??

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There is a relay inside that is 12V. The 19.6VAC would be rectified and used to supply the relay, the plus and minus 12 for the comms and 5V for the processor.
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Adverse Effects wrote: output 19.6VDC that seems strangely a very specific and odd voltage
It gives enough headroom for a 12V regulator. Note the heat-sunk regulator type device (TO220 case) on the upper left.

Edit: As jeff says - rectified. It's 19.6VAC now I look again.
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That's a 50 Hz transformer. You don't see many of those any more. [ Edit: in consumer goods. ] Transformers only work on fixed AC voltages, in this case 230 V and 19.6 V.
Without a lot of work, the best you could do was a transformer with 2 120 V primary windings, and a double pole double throw switch of some sort that arranges rhe windings in series for 240 V operation, or parallel (with care for the correct phase) for 120 V operation. Sadly, it's all too easy to accidentally use the wrong switch position.

It might be possible to use a wide input DC power supply, providing some 27 VDC (19.6 V x sqrt(2)). A 24 V adjustable output model turned up to maximum might just do. The rectifier will not harm anything, merely dropping a volt or two. But that presumes that nothing is expecting AC. It's a reasonable guess, but not guaranteed.
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coulomb wrote: That's a 50 Hz transformer. You don't see many of those any more. [ Edit: in consumer goods. ] Transformers only work on fixed AC voltages, in this case 230 V and 19.6 V.
Without a lot of work, the best you could do was a transformer with 2 120 V primary windings, and a double pole double throw switch of some sort that arranges rhe windings in series for 240 V operation, or parallel (with care for the correct phase) for 120 V operation. Sadly, it's all too easy to accidentally use the wrong switch position.
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