About Home Charging Pros

Who Runs This Site

I'm Branden Flasch — an Application Engineer at Alpitronic, a manufacturer of DC fast chargers, and the person behind every recommendation on this site. I work with EV charging hardware professionally: troubleshooting CCS communication, analyzing PLC handshake logs, supporting commercial charger deployments, and dealing with the messy real-world edge cases that don't show up in product brochures.

But Home Charging Pros isn't about the 400+ kW commercial chargers I work on at the day job. It's about the Level 2 charger in your garage — the one that quietly tops up your car overnight while you sleep. Different power class, different use case, but the same engineering principles: power delivery, communication protocols, thermal management, and reliability over thousands of cycles.

Why I Built This

I started Home Charging Pros because the existing "best home EV charger" content online is mostly garbage. It's written by generalist tech reviewers who have never installed a 50A circuit, don't know what a NEMA 14-50 derating spec is, and can't tell you why a 48A hardwired install costs more than a plug-in.

I wanted a resource that:

• Treats home charging like the electrical infrastructure project it actually is, not just a gadget purchase
• Explains the NEC code requirements (125% breaker rule, GFCI rules, derating) without dumbing them down
• Helps real homeowners decide between plug-in and hardwired, 40A and 48A, smart and basic
• Recommends electricians, permits, and panel upgrades honestly — not just the cheapest path
• Compares chargers on metrics that actually matter (cord length, build quality, warranty, ease of warranty claims) rather than marketing fluff

If you're an EV owner trying to figure out what to put in your garage, you're in the right place.

My EV Setup

• 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Lariat ER (mine) — 131 kWh battery, charges at 11.5 kW on Level 2 (48A circuit). One of the most demanding home-charging loads you can put on a residential panel — if a charger handles the Lightning daily, it'll handle anything.
• 2025 Tesla Model Y (my partner Bethany's) — charges at 11.5 kW on Level 2 via the included Tesla Mobile Connector and our home charger setup.

We charge both vehicles at home almost exclusively. Between the two cars, we put 25,000+ miles a year on the home charger. I've personally installed, swapped, troubleshot, and lived with multiple Level 2 chargers — that's the experience that backs the recommendations on this site. I've also dealt with the unglamorous side of home charging: tripped breakers in heat waves, communication errors with specific car/charger pairings, and warranty claims that went well (and a few that didn't).

Why Trust Our Recommendations

Three reasons:

1. Industry expertise. I do EV charging for a living. When I tell you why a charger's relay design matters, why some chargers throttle in heat, or why a specific brand handles ground-fault detection differently, that's not from a press release.
2. Owner experience. I'm not reviewing chargers from a press loaner. I'm telling you what's been bolted to my garage wall, hot in the summer, freezing in the winter, in real Charlotte NC weather.
3. Transparent methodology. Every recommendation passes the same filters, documented on our Editorial Policy page. We don't accept sponsored placements, and we update content when products change, get recalled, or get superseded.

YouTube Channel

I run a YouTube channel called Branden Flash (https://www.youtube.com/@brandenflash) covering EV road trips, charging infrastructure deep-dives, adapter performance testing, and Tesla FSD analysis. If you want to see the kind of forensic, data-driven approach I bring to this site in video form, that's the place. A lot of the long-term charging data — actual measured kW curves, ramp behavior, derating events — gets documented there before it ends up in the written guides here.

Get In Touch

Questions, electrician horror stories, charger recommendations, or corrections — email branden@bflasch.com. I read every email and reply when I can. If you've found a charger we should test, or had a bad experience with one we recommended, I want to hear about it. Read our Editorial Policy for the full breakdown of how we operate, including our independence and conflict-of-interest disclosures.