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Contactor experiences wear when it is switching, the higher the current that it either connects or interrupts the bigger the wear (actaully interrupting current causes higher wear due to arc being "pulled" between contact points before gap is big enough to stop it). When you are driving it is...

Every utility company would love to see all clients draw constant power all day, with ideal power factor and no harmonics. That way they can deliver most energy with least losses on their side. But we don't live in ideal word :) and they take that variable load into account. So if you want to be...

Cool! So it inhibits charging completly before battery is brought to the certain minimum temperature? BTW: are those images from FLIR One? Users at EEVBlog are reporting that when you save a picture and then open it in Flir Tools you can get a reading below 32F, although accuracy is unknown.