Recent content by Rocky_H

Yep, I just read that. It looks true...and terrible. We were already in that situation before this. We can't get a new Tesla because of the cabin air pressure fiasco. When they created the "Bioweapon Defense Mode", that also included sealing up the cabin very close to airtight, so they could...

What kind of adapter are you talking about? The OP is in California. You are in Australia, so that's the European style ports, where Tesla did use CCS. That's not relevant here in the U.S.

Right, as @miimura mentioned, the mobile charging cables (and onboard car charger) are VERY open to detecting and using whatever voltage level is on them, from about 100V up to about 250V-ish? So stuff with 110, 120, 220, 230, 240, etc. are all fine. The only case that it does seem to be picky...

Yes, there's not really anything wrong with that. It's more of a recommendation for future convenience and flexibility if you need to change or move things later, so you have some slack to work with. And if you were pulling new wire, it would be a good idea to leave that extra slack, but it's...

EVSEAdapters is a great site that makes really good quality stuff. I have a few of theirs, so I will vouch for them being overall reliable. And 15 feet is still really short, so that's not an concern as far as resistance or voltage drop or any of those kinds of issues.

I'm going to concur that this is a grasping conspiracy theory without proof or evidence. You are phrasing it as a motivation of an offensive attack to try to sabotage others. That would be contrary to Tesla's mission statement. But I will put forth a counter theory that it could be a...

Yeah, normal and is usually a combination of two or more factors: Load off the battery, so it can recalculate unloaded. Also temperature almost certainly cooling down. That doesn't meant it was "overheated", as you said--just nice and cozy warm from being in use, and then cooled down from...

Oh, well no, that's not a thing that happens. Whether the car is on or off, it ALWAYS will activate and draw from the huge main battery pack to refill the small battery as often as needed. So if you're just talking about these little low voltage 12V loads, the car can be left alone for several...

Oh, that has been tested and measured some over time, and it's over 50%. I seem to recall around 60 to 70%? This search seems to show some consensus in that area...

Huh, that is some more interesting additional information. That's not "either/or", it appears to be both. They are made different, as indicated by the 7.4 kW limit on the European cars, versus 11 kW limit on North American cars. And it does seem to be using two of the three modules instead of...

What does that have to do with a wall connector? It's because of the internal chargers inside the car not being configured to accept high amounts of current on a single phase, because it can't spread out a single phase input across all three segments of the charger. There have been threads on...

Maybe, but it has to do something a little unusual that is EV specific. I think I see where the problem is here. You're probably good up to the NACS to J1772 to 14-50. That should still have the Hot1 and Hot2 passed through. I think where it's going wrong is probably in the next one, where...

You're trying to apply a principle that does exist to a situation where the parameters are so far from that, that it's not relevant. That thing about charging efficiency, is in the realm of like 1 or 2 kW power levels, where a constant draw of 300 W is a sizeable portion of it. So charging at...

Tesla never deployed "Chill" mode at all to my 2014 S85, probably for this reason. There's not that much to tone it down from.

No, neither of these is that. Tesla never has and still doesn't use the Guess-O-Meter methodology. That is what other brands use, where the main number of supposed "miles" on the fuel gauge is a shifting projection based on a continually updating efficiency factor based on how the car has been...