Recent content by TomE

Now that the power meter and outside temperature are back, my only complaint would be the invisible brake lights on the car graphic. I have no idea whether the feature is useful or not since I can't see it unless I get in close with my reading glasses on. I guess it was design by a person with...

And if the collision from the rear is big enough the airbags will deploy. By the time the secondary collision occurs the will have deflated somewhat, mitigating their benefit when they would be most useful.

I seem to be the only respondent that rented a truck. I've moved house twice and used a van for the big stuff. Pretty much all the small stuff was moved in the back of my Model S.

It does look like that "rollover" car has had the jaws of life treatment. Post crash photos after the pillars have been cut and the roof rolled back always look more dramatic than the actual damage sustained in the incident.

Maybe the coil wires are of different length? Maybe the arc blow-out magnets are of differing polarities to help with packaging the DC bus bars by removing the need to arrange DC current to flow in a specific direction?

The current is actually encoded as the duty cycle of the pulses. So, it's a matter of measuring the pulse width and the pulse period and doing a division to determine the duty cycle. So, the absolute accuracy of the oscillator used to perform the measurements isn't really a factor. The EVSE...

Well, there does appear to be a circuit breaker in the circuit.

Right now I use the web site, and take it mobile using a Surface Pro on long trips. Typically I will start supercharging, then use the planner to figure out out much charging I need to the next destination, looking ahead at the weather and so on. By the time I'm done, I usually have enough...

There are some things about induction motors which might not be obvious: 1. The rotor is a large rotating mass with only two bearings. Any imbalance or shaft bending is going to stress the bearings periodically. If the stator windings or rotor bars are not exactly symmetrical or the three phase...

It looks like Model S is on the list to me. TESLA MOTORS

From Sept '13 to now $96970 to $97220. S85, MC paint, pano roof, leather interior, wood trim, tech package, parking sensors, rear seats, int fairy lights, air suspension.