EV Charging Cable Collection

After work­ing on EVSE’s “Electric Vehicle Service Equipment” some­times referred to as charg­ers for many years, I some­how have amassed a col­lec­tion of charg­ing cables that I thought were inter­est­ing enough to share.

Most EV dri­vers are some­what famil­iar with the ubiq­ui­tous J1772-2009 Type‑1 con­nec­tor that is used on many EVSE’s. It is capa­ble of up to 19.2 kW (80 A @ 240 V) AC sup­ply to the vehi­cles onboard AC to DC charg­er. Even it has seen some changes over it’s his­to­ry such as the CCS Combo 1 con­nec­tor which adds two addi­tion­al pins for DC fast charg­ing up to 350 kW.
Currently the NACS con­nec­tor is quick­ly replac­ing the dom­i­nance of the J1772-2009 and CCS Combo 1 connectors.

Pictured above is my J1772 Rev. 2009 Yazaki plug pro­to­type which is capa­ble of 5.76 kW using a sin­gle phase 120/240 Volt AC sup­ply at up to 24 Amps. It was the pre­de­ces­sor to the J1772-2009 Type 1 con­nec­tor and fea­tured “fin­ger-safe, touch-proof con­tacts,” designed to last for over 10,000 insertion/removal cycles. 

Before the J1772-2009 there was the SAE J1772-2001 rec­tan­gu­lar Avcon con­nec­tor which could deliv­er up to 6.6 kW of AC pow­er to the on-board EV charg­er. Earlier ver­sions includ­ed two DC con­tacts for Level 3 charg­ing, but those con­tacts were dropped in the SAE 2001 ver­sion.
My 1996 pro­to­type con­nec­tor came with a AWG 16–4 cable which lim­its it’s pow­er to around 3.12 kW.

Before the con­duc­tive charge EVSE’s there were induc­tive charg­ing EVSE’s such as the Magne Charge which used induc­tive pad­dles and vehi­cle inlet slots. There is no direct elec­tri­cal con­nec­tion between the pad­dle and the EV inlet slot. Instead the pair forms the two halves of an elec­tri­cal trans­former and oper­ates at a fre­quen­cy of 130 to 360 kHz AC sim­i­lar to a high fre­quen­cy switch mode pow­er supply.

I also have a orig­i­nal new Magne Charge hous­ing, but it is miss­ing most of the inter­nal elec­tron­ics except for the GFCI mod­ule, and dis­play. My guess it that the inter­nals were scav­enged to repair a failed installed sys­tem.
If any­one has the inter­nal elec­tron­ics, work­ing or not that they can spare. I would like to put togeth­er a com­plete sys­tem someday.