Recent content by Lightning Jeff

The USB ports in that location are each under 1 amp, which is a shame. Is that adequate to power qi chargers? I’m skeptical.

I have not had a front plate on my S (since February), or on my Jag XF (Jan. 2010 to Jan. 2013). I drive a lot of miles through a lot of jurisdiction in Washington, including freeways and downtown Seattle, and I've never been stopped. I try not to give police/state patrol a reason to want to...

I don't run a front plate - haven't for close to four years now, with no issues here in Washington. It's also extremely rare that I might have passengers in the 167 HOT lane. (Never, come to think of it.) So the solution for me was to install the license plate pass behind the nosecone. I just...

Me too.

This seems to be available now - Shop Tesla Gear Model S

And your commute requires a charge at work?

Oh, I don't know. What about "Influential Citizen"? Or "Other"? But it does stand to reason that contacts from people with some authority, access or pull will be more useful than a pile of messages saying, "I want one near me." That much, they already know.

On the Supercharger page: [/FONT][/COLOR]

Wondering if there's been any progress on this. ProClip's Facebook page had a comment in April that no one had yet made their S available.

Exactly. You won't be generating any significant, sustained heat during this time. Everything cools down once serious charging is done. I took a two-week trip days after getting my S. I left it plugged into the 14-50 the whole time (and checked my garage security cam several times daily to check...

A black (I think!) P85 showed up in the Union Square garage in Seattle. I finally have company!

The Seattle SC very quickly replaced my UMC. Happy to say, I now have a faceplate. The new one gets warm, but not the 140+ I saw with the old one. This is after about 90 minutes charging at 39 of 40 amps: I am still worried about the size of those pins, though - they seem awfully small.

It's actually the connector pins, so if this is a flaw, it may be a more expensive one to fix. And yes, they seem tiny for the amount of current they're moving. I'll be interested in what others do, as this always seemed a little off to me - to the point that I've thought about mounting a...

In my case, hard to say. It had been charging for perhaps a couple of hours last night when I thought to check it after seeing this thread. But I haven't had the 14-50 adapter off of the connector since I took delivery back in February. My guess is that the melting has been an ongoing process...

Similar, perhaps minor, melting issues on my (faceplate-less) mobile connector: When I first got it, I was getting temperature readings closer to 100 - which also seemed somewhat high, but it's much hotter now. I'll be stopping by Seattle SC this afternoon.