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Your picture link didn’t work but yes I also saw a lot of cars there today too. Opening imminent?

Not really. There’s a four year old benchmark that five year old humans can do that the best LLMs cannot. And now there’s a $1M prize for beating it. https://arcprize.org/?task=3aa6fb7a

assess piloting using the forward window? Well they had to manually fly the ship to dock so I guess this means they have to manually undock as well. Hopefully that’s all it means. Sounds like their software can’t handle anything other than pristine conditions and the ship is very much not in...

I’ve always done it the way you used to do it and it works fine.

What was it before?

Yeah that’s what I heard. What does simple majority voting mean?

Absolutely OK. It will degrade your battery a *little* bit faster. But so what. Use your car as you need to and enjoy it.

Oh yes. Don’t forget to buy your robot insurance.

Went by today and they had taken down construction fencing for the bottom (and top) parking lots so I drove in and tried the Supercharger. Not turned on yet. However they had various contractors working there. I took a photo of the service customer lounge through the window. Should be close...

6 gauge when using THHN in conduit is the spec for 48A charging. 4 gauge only when using NM-B cable. @tatoweb install is correct.

So check to see what your starting voltage is when you start a charge. It’ll tell you the starting voltage since it takes about 10 seconds to ramp the amps all the way the 48A. My starting amps is usually around 240v which is the perfect nominal voltage which means I usually see about 7-8 volts...

To get full power it should be 240V but there is always voltage sag unless you used much bigger cable than normal. 229 is a bit on the low side. I see 233-234 when I charge.

Is there some rule against that?

No he didn’t. He just said 90% of retail voted yes. But we don’t know how many retail actually voted. That’s the kicker since you need 50% of all voters, whether they voted or not to say yes.

While these are manageable, the problem is that they reduce the ability to manage other small issues. Ie they erode the margin of safety of the entire mission. These leaks require manual interventions, turning on and off valves and even manually docking the ship to the ISS, all of which take...

Actually he was counting on them so that his 25% control would effectively give him majority control.

Elon has decided to go to war against Apple AI without doing any research, and believing the half baked conspiracy theories about it. Honestly, as an Elon supporter for over a decade, I am just about done with this kind of crap from him.

Yes, the supercharger has been ready to go (it seems) since SDG&E installed the transformer April 28th, but that was about the same time the Supercharger team got canned, so probably collateral damage there. So maybe 40 days late and counting on the site opening. I did notice a huge new...

When the expected IPO proceeds exceed the IRR of expected Starlink profits.

Yeah but the ship was several kilometers off target. Not sure they were able to reposition in time.

Also from that stream, Elon said they will put an ablative secondary structure underneath the tiles just in case tiles fall off, and they have new tiles that are twice as strong all for the next ship.

Timelapse of same:

IFT-5 in about a month:

More info about IFT-5 timing:

Yeah I know. They can get rid of their small army of drivers and just have the vehicles drive themselves to the staging lot. Which is yet another flex.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking! It would be hilarious if they hadn’t thought of that, but I’m sure they did.

Thanks Grendal. And here’s more info from Elon about timing.

Right, this bet is about landing the booster into the chopstick arms, nothing to do with Starship orbital reentry! Obviously the first landed booster won’t be reused (they'll take it apart to see how what needs improving), but as long as it doesn’t blow up, it’ll count. Looks like no one wants...

I always wondered why they were digging that tunnel when they had a perfectly good freeway underpass they were using. But having it inside the building is pretty cool.

They are well on their way to finishing a second launch site at Boca Chica. It’ll be a landing tower for now without the support equipment for launch initially.

Steel is heavy, tiles are light. They want to use tiles as much as possible for this reason.

Sounded like they had designed a better, lighter hot staging ring that would be reusable. I suspect it’s either not ready yet, or is a lot more expensive, so this jettison idea makes sense while they are still lofting test ships that they don’t plan to reuse.

OK, maybe we can still make this bet real! Elon just posted: Which would fullfill the bet. Of course, it doesn't mean they will actually try to land the next booster, or that it will work, or when it'll happen. But there is hope! I'm opening this bet up to ANYONE and declaring this a new...

I'm officially putting this bet to bed and deep sixing it. We were all a tad optimistic, even with new bets. But it finally got accomplished in June 2024 with no one winning it. I might try some new bets in a new format in the future.

Does not sound great. They've basically shut off some of the Reaction Control Thrusters (RCS) because of this. They'll reopen when needed, presumably for ISS docking.

Yep, all sorts of space laser comms are happening now. In fact the NASA Psyche mission has a demonstration laser communications system on it as well. For near earth comms, communications to Starlink sats via laser makes sense. For deep space, they should stick a relay laser satellite at a...

Yep at T+18 minutes, looks good! ISS docking tomorrow.

So, didn’t see a thread for this launch. Been watching it, was struck by how huge their Mission Control center is. Also they’ve already had to do procedural hacks to not trip the auto shut off sequences. They had to manually shut down a fan at T-18 minutes before they switched on another...

Presumably you are going to use the Tesla Mobile Connector to charge? If so, that install with a 40A breaker will work just fine since the mobile connector can only draw 32A anyways. Ignore those that say to swap in a 50A breaker, it isn’t needed and isn’t necessary. And indeed we don’t know...

Once again guys, this is not a North American poster. Please stop giving advice related to North American charging.

Yes, while the car will always top up and maintain the 12v battery from the HV battery via a dc-dc converter. So I wouldn’t worry about using the 12V subsystem even now. Usually the Tesla diagnostics warn you well ahead of impending doom so it should not die within the next few weeks.

Careful, the OP is in Switzerland! Unless you know European charging, don’t reply! OP, you should state where you are from if different from North America when asking charging questions in the general forums.

It’ll be interesting to see if the batteries last. I suspect they are damaged.

Strange. My (gen 1) HPWC is set to 64A max charge, but it charges my new Model S at 48A just fine.

“You can imagine a large rack that is a big computer where the functions of the computer as a controller are broken up separately into individual cards or printed wire circuit boards with their logic devices," said Tory Bruno, ULA's president and CEO. "They’re all standalone, but together it’s...

I take it you don’t have a faster charger there? No 240V option? It wouldn’t hurt to charge it at 240V, won’t make a difference to the battery.

For a govt agency, it actually moves really fast.

OMG. Wanna bet they use hard drives in those things. And windows XP. And god knows what else such that it has an unreliable boot sequence? And why in gods name doesn’t it boot like hours before liftoff so that they can be in a quiescent state?

If it was an equity investment, then he has made a lot of money. Indeed, SpaceX is doing a liquidity event right now, the two events might be connected.

Don't plan on getting any significant charge in the winter at 120V - do plug in, it'll ensure you don't *lose* charge - but use the Superchargers as appropriate to make sure the battery has enough power to get back to a supercharger. I would seriously look into installing a 240V circuit or using...