Recent content by rudholm

If you have an outlet that is the only thing on its circuit, it's easy to convert it to 240. You won't be able to increase the amperage, though. But converting a 5-15R or 5-20R to a 6-15R or 6-20R just requires a minor modification to the wiring in your breaker panel and a new two-pole...

That would be the best possible outcome, but I don't think open sourcing IP is consistent with Tesla's culture or history (despite the mostly meaningless "opening of patents" stunt several years back).

I'm under the impression that the firmware for our cars is officially abandonware at this point.

What Rocky_H said. NEMA 6 receptacles have no Neutral, so you need three conductors; Hot, Hot, and Ground. All the OP did was re-purpose the old Neutral wire from the original NEMA 5 receptacle (which uses Hot, Neutral, and Ground) and use it for the other Hot, so he now has the needed Hot...

I've had a Google Fi data-only SIM card working in my OVMS since I installed it a few years ago. I just got a new 4G modem yesterday (Medlock has them in stock) but I haven't installed it yet. My APN is set to "h2g2"

When I was there last month there wasn't really a showroom and there was still a lot of black tarp up. Seems like they might have put the remodel on hold.

I live relatively close to the Alhambra SC but they always schedule me at Burbank for some reason. I was able to get the latest service appointment moved to Alhambra, but I had to do it by text message request, and now the appointment doesn't say which SC, it just says "Service Center", as if...

I second (third? fourth?) the suggestion to put in a 14-50 or 6-50 receptacle (as has been pointed out, the 6-50 omits the unnecessary Neutral conductor, saving you money on wire) and put it on a 40 amp breaker. Use thicker wire than you need so that if you ever upgrade the main panel, you can...

The correct answer when a dealer asks for a "Market Adjustment" is to walk out. If everyone did that, they would stop doing it. I think the bigger problem with dealers and EVs is that dealers don't want to sell EVs because they don't support their revenue model, which is based largely on their...

Those are balancing weights, the TPMS sensors are inside the wheel so they're not visible.

And people who realize they have no defensible point like to cliam "that's not what I meant".

Well, you weren't very clear about it then. You made some comments about secure passwords being possible with the limited character set when the issue is that the car's virtual keyboard has a clear deficiency that you seem to reject. Yes, of course people could work around the problem by...

If a battery is being recovered, that process should be done in isolation and never unsupervised. I imagine Pete, of all people, appreciates this fact. But he has said that this fire started in an electrical panel. I'm very curious how that happened without immediately tripping a breaker and...

Facepalm indeed. The assertion that one should change one's passwords to accommodate the car's lack of the basic set of printable 7-bit ASCII characters is absurd.

Well this is a disaster. I'm beside myself. How could this happen, again?