Recent content by Sophias_dad

Yep, my mistake. The green is pretty dark to me, and I just assumed the ground sits between L1 and L2(doh!) Its fine!

No safety issues there. I'm not a professional electrician, which is debatably worse than not being an electrician at all. That said, I've seen plenty of reports of 'professional' electrician's work that is unsafe or obviously incorrect.

That's so very normal. If anything its LESS mileage lost than expected.

That RED ground wire is giving me the shivers, btw! I'm pretty sure that a surge protector of that nature is intended for subsecond surges, and I'd be surprised if the protector itself wasn't damaged by this event.

You should probably consult Tesla, since you are right at (170/0.8=212) 69-70% of the 303 original range.

If you are happy, I'm happy. Why not ask an inspector if they are happy?

Far too much of an installed base to do that now. Additionally, the cords(to carry 150-250kw) are big, heavy, expensive items. I understand newer ones are even liquid cooled. Its an added expense that no one will welcome. They'll take up space/weight in the car, some folks won't be...

Can't really blame tesla for a bunch of that. A gas station needs no more power than a standard home. A bank of 8 superchargers, even the 150kw variety, is more like installing a small subdivision. Each pair capable of 150kw continuous is roughly equivalent to three 200A equipped homes, so...

Wasn't it advertised at 272 miles? That four miles is not even noise.

Sure, but you could put a failsafe in there, like "Hey, I haven't heard from the load-checker in a minute, lets turn the amperage down to 0(or some other small number." I definitely agree the 'cloud' is not a place for this communication. Hopefully even with the RS485 they still have a...

I would think that if they require a particular revision they'd have to mention it in the PDF. It is indeed possible that the RS-485 doesn't need extra components for all one bit per second(or whatever) transfer rate they need. I'm just as surprised they didn't just use wifi for the...

Its not a safety concern at all. I'm just not sure an inspector will be happy with it.

Fair enough, I stand corrected.

Safe, yes. I'm not an electrician by trade, but I'd suspect that individual conductors going into the HPWC is on the hairy edge of legit. I understand the cable being clamped by the box(but on a side note I really hate that type of 'clamp', IMHO it doesn't really work and is easy to make fail)...

Looks fine, I wouldn't have bothered to get the white wire into the HPWC at all. Technically there's supposed to be a cable clamp instead of the conduit terminator in the back of the HPWC(unless you are using conduit to get to it), but you are also supposed to run the cable(not individual...