Electrical Engineer Needed in San Diego. CA

[nadogail]

My condominium association is considering the addition of Electric Vehicle Stations. One of our new unit buyers has a Tesla, model 3, and has petitioned the board to add a recharging facility. I, one of the board members feel that the addition of charging ports would be an improvement to our property.
We will require a Professional Electrical Engineer to take the sketches and information we have developed and have Formal Drawings prepared with a "Stamp" for submission to our local building department.

Nobody expects "free" work, but if you know someone who will work at a reasonable rate for "time and materials", please contact me.

 

[Showkey]

Any electrical contractor can bid and spec the job.

More Interesting the association $$$$ be spent on one person‘s need………that should make for an interesting debate.
Is the association suppling free power after the install ?
Will you be adding more charge stations, will the charging time be allocated ?
Can the public or visitor use the station ?

 

[nadogail]

Each unit to supply power to their own station, the HOA to install the basic wiring for all stations as an improvement to the property. The project is still under discussion. City has tol me they need a set of stamped plans before they can consider granting a permit.

 

[walta]

Before the condo goes and spends money paying an engineer understand most condos electrical system just barely cover the equipment installed at construction and the service going into the building is most likely very close to max out.

Upgrading the service to building plus the meter and panel for each unit will be a 1.5 to 4 thousand per unit if that kind of number is a no starter do not waste you money paying an engineer.

If that kind of number sounds workable start with an electrical contractor and let him deal with the city. If an engineer is required he knows who to get.





Walta

 

[dscheidt]

Any electrical contractor can bid and spec the job.

Probably true, they either have an engineer on staff, or have one they hire as needed. There are at least two advantages of having your own plans done, though. It's a lot easier to get an accurate bid on a job, because materials and scope of work are defined by the plaans, and everyone will be bidding on doing the same job and not what they think it's going to be. Second, if the engineer is working for you, you can get things done your way. That may not matter on a a job this size, but they do on bigger ones.

 

[alfredeneuman]

Any electrical contractor can bid and spec the job.

That's true.
In CA, any contractor can engineer their own job as long as it's for their use only. (including submitting plans for approval)
They can't engineer a job for another company.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Service is probably 208v. Do they make chargers that run on 208v? All the installs out here are getting 480v service. If you want more than one station, will probably need separate service to power it.

 

[u3b3rg33k]

Service is probably 208v. Do they make chargers that run on 208v? All the installs out here are getting 480v service. If you want more than one station, will probably need separate service to power it.

L2 charging is typically 200-277V depending on the vehicle's onboard charger, DCFC can be had 200-400V class single or 3 phase.

Bosch sells a 25kW single phase 240V unit.

 

[nadogail]

hanks for your responses.

 

[u3b3rg33k]

Each unit to supply power to their own station, the HOA to install the basic wiring for all stations as an improvement to the property. The project is still under discussion. City has tol me they need a set of stamped plans before they can consider granting a permit.

if this means what it sounds like, it means everyone gets L2, probably 30A (26A cont) as units probably have 100A service. if they have 2 cars you can have an EVSE that shares the 26A between 2 cars to double the port count without adding kVA load.

what you haven't told us is the layout of the condo. high-rise? town house? side-by? makes a big difference if everyone has their own garage vs 1st floor parking for everyone - charger access control needs to be accounted for, or there will be problems.

 

[nadogail]

Thanks Everyone for your thoughts, yesterday evening the HOA Board decided to no longer pursue the project. The only EV Owner was given permission to have his own charging station installed as his sole expense. THis was not the decision I wanted to see; but I only have a single vote.

This project is now History.

 

[nh_yota]

Thanks Everyone for your thoughts, yesterday evening the HOA Board decided to no longer pursue the project. The only EV Owner was given permission to have his own charging station installed as his sole expense. THis was not the decision I wanted to see; but I only have a single vote.

This project is now History.

Honestly that's probably the best option.

 

[fair1345]

I don't like all this "reasonable rate" thing because you never know what salary to expect and you don't know if this job is worth applying for. On this job site, everything is straight and forward. I see the predictable salary most of the time and can easily decide on the most suitable vacancy for me.

 

[nadogail]

In case you missed my announcement; the HOA as a group decided that they were not interested in doing anything about Electric Vehicle Charging. The unit owner has been given permission to have his own contractor put in a charging station at the unit owners personal expense.

 

[rburke65]

Once again, one has to define ‘reasonable’.