I tried daisy chaining a type 2 cable to my tethered charger and it didn't work. Cable was sold as an EV extension cable, but the car wouldn't charge with it.
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Here is a post I made regarding my 10m extension lead (It works fine):
Post by Thincat » Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:53 pm
I had a Pod Point charger with a fixed cable fitted in my double garage and I have made a hole in the wall so that I can pass the plug through it and use it outside but I have found that the cable is really too short to use outside the garage unless I take great care to get the car in the right position. The car has not arrived yet so I'm not faced with an immediate problem and I have been considering what to do.
Having the cable swapped for a longer one would cost more than having an additional charger fitted :shock:
So I searched to see if it was possible to buy an extension lead and it turns out that you can get them for between about £150 and £200 depending on the supplier and the length. You can get 3m, 5m, 7.5m, 10m ... even as much as 20m
You do have to be careful that the cable has been designed for this particular use otherwise the pins transmitting the signals are not long enough to make contact.
I use a Type 2 "extension" cable successfully. The quality of the "extension" Type 2 cable seems to matter -- my extension cable is notably thicker than the EVSE cable and just seems generally sturdier. You want to minimize resistance and loss in the connections.
However from what I have seen. The better cables use slightly thinner eu/German cable as opposed to many Chinese leads that use thick cheap cable.
You can't extend a normal cable using another cable 99% of the time as the signal pins don't make contact.
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