Recent content by Kirby64

Current would be 300A assuming an absolute 1.0 power factor. Presumably the power factor isn't exactly 1.0, so it'll be closer to ~320A.

It's well known that Tesla Superchargers take 480V 3 phase as the input. The diameter of wire probably isn't nearly as thick as you think. I'd suspect that they would be using 400 MCM wire, as that's about right for 250kW. 400 MCM wire is ~0.6in thick, if it were solid copper (it's always...

Wash it with a pure soap, then clay bar the car. If it doesn't come off with a clay bar, then it's something in the paint. Be careful with the clay bar though, as that can scratch the car even further if you don't use it properly. :)

Could be really bad haloing. Alternatively, did you use one of those 'synthetic' waxes that advertises bonding to the paint and stuff? I've found sometimes those are quite hard to get off and it might just be 'wax' build-up. EDIT: To be clear, you probably need to use a chemical stripper for...

No clue, the FM retrofit didn't even exist at the time of that post ;) I assume it would, though.

Charging tends to overshoot the target percentage by 1-2%. Whatever you have it set at, it hovers around that. So it'll charge to 92%, let it drain to 88%, then charge back up to 92%. This is to keep the contactors from constantly being open.

What would you possibly get by waiting? You paid for HW3 with the FSD upgrade. One of two things will happen when a next revision is released: Existing FSD folks will get a free upgrade Existing FSD folks will either need to buy a new car, or pay for an extra upgrade There's no scenario here...

Yeah and he made no mention of free hardware upgrades either. If you buy any other car ever you won't get free hardware upgrades without buying a whole new car. If you've been following Tesla for any length of time (you have more posts than me and have owned the car longer than me), you...

Or he could give HW3 to those who supported Tesla early by buying FSD. It's pretty simple. Yeah the cost sucks, but it's not like Elon didn't give everyone AMPLE warnings about the price hikes.

You really think the cost of installing the hardware (i.e. $1k+) is really worth the extra data? Their entire fleet now is HW3 going forward, so HW2 stuff gets smaller and smaller.

I get full regen issues at 90% (like 1 or 2 pips worth) if it's less than like 80F outside. Even 70F outside temp causes slight regen restriction in my experience.

Huh. I only have one referral, but for some reason my credits are listed as expiring in 2022. I got the referral back in 2019. Looks like it's going to be OK for 3 years for me? I'm not going to complain though :)

What are you even talking about? When the car is off, the USB connection is not enabled, so the SSD is not powered. Even if it was drawing significantly more power while on (i.e. recording), the upper limit of the USB port would be ~10W. An extra 10W load would be meaningless.

You sure you don't just have a nail in your tire or something? Bothering the service center with a nail/flat issue is pretty silly. Treat it like any other flat issue. I HIGHLY doubt Tesla would cover this under warranty unless you managed to bend a rim which is unlikely, and even then they...

You can still drop your mileage driven and that should adjust the price. I did and it dropped a bit.