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    Need help on "Free Unlimited Supercharging for Life"...

    Because it's rude and uncalled for. This was just posted Friday, and it's Monday morning. Maybe they will get back here tonight or tomorrow. People are sometimes busy and have lives. Showing this kind of demanding and impatient attitude you have about how someone has offended you/us by not...
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    New 240v outlet pulling 0 amps

    It will definitely support it, so you don't need to worry about returning it. The wall connector doesn't require a 60A circuit. It is a configurable device. It can be set to use various levels of circuits as low as 15A. Since you are already using a 50A circuit for the outlet, it can...
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    Tesla Mobile Charger 0/0 A but passing 244v.

    Huh. You should probably start following this other thread that seems to be about this same thing. Two other people in there also got new cars and have 240V outlets that just continually show 0/0 amps and won't charge, and Tesla service centers aren't doing very well figuring out what the...
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    New 240v outlet pulling 0 amps

    I don't think that's true. I've seen many many many reports over the years of Tesla service centers testing people's UMCs on 14-50 outlets at the service center. Since that was the most common method for people charging at home for many years, it made sense for them to make sure to have at...
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    "Unable to DC Fast Charge" Error

    That price hasn't really moved much in many years, so with inflation, it's effectively going down, I guess.
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    Supercharger - Henryetta, OK

    Welllll, I think a lot of people wouldn't because of: I tried Googling for it and had a hard time coming up with a good reference, but it's related to efficiency of resource usage that's similar to a game theory concept. There is less chance of waiting and less average time of waiting if you...
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    Battery preconditioning for CCS-1?

    That's just not true at all.
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    main panel has 30 amp to garage panel, what are the options

    This gets to the advice which I think is helpful to new owners in this situation. If you start off your request to the electrician with "I want..." they will probably take you at your word of doing exactly that, including whatever big expensive upgrades it requires to give what you literally...
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    Wiki Largest gaps between Superchargers on US Interstates

    That's what this WIKI thread in the Model X section is for: "Trailer friendly Supercharger locations". It's pinned at the top and is updated regularly. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/trailer-friendly-supercharger-locations.61389/
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    Battery preconditioning for CCS-1?

    @Earl The way you continually refer to "optimal charging temperature" and are valiantly attempting to dismiss this and throw it away if it deviates from "optimal charging temperature" is what is getting silly. This won't and can't always be "optimum", even with what Tesla's own preheating for...
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    Battery preconditioning for CCS-1?

    Really? You think it proves that as an overall general case? ...a day where the battery is already warm and preheating isn't really needed. ...on a charger that was already crippled and couldn't supply higher power where a warmer battery would have mattered. The FUD is strong with this one.
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    main panel has 30 amp to garage panel, what are the options

    The calculations for feeders are 100% of noncontinuous loads + 125% of continuous loads. So the 24A times 1.25 is 30 + 12 = 42. That would need at least a 42A supply to the subpanel, eh? Normally, I wouldn't trust myself to do a more complicated load calculation on a subpanel if it is...
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    main panel has 30 amp to garage panel, what are the options

    Explain. If the car is drawing 24A continuous load, with the required 125% oversize of the circuit, that is the entire capacity of the 240V 30A feeder supply to that subpanel. Where would that come from? It was certainly not in haste. It was very specific. I know very well that panels can...
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    main panel has 30 amp to garage panel, what are the options

    Yes. No, that's not what "we" are suggesting. That is what you are suggesting. Putting it on a 30A circuit consumes the entire 30A supply to the garage completely! That leaves no room at all to run anything from those other two 15A circuits while the car is charging. I just wouldn't...
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    Battery preconditioning for CCS-1?

    "when driving" Button IS required with this very situation we're talking about! Someone wants to turn on battery heating because it's cold where the car is parked, and they want it to pre warm up some before they get in the car to drive to an Electrify America station that is close-ish, and...
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    High mileage model 3 LR battery life expectancy

    This again gets into that weird thing where people do something irrational based on fear. Your car is only 3 years old. You are contemplating dumping 30 or 40 thousand dollars to get a new car because you are so afraid of a possible 10 thousand dollar expense. That doesn't make any sense.
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    Is the semi wind shield rock proof?

    The "shatter proof" thing was a statement about it (which turned out to be not very reliable). I'm still waiting on the citation for it being the exact same thing as the Semi windshield.
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    Is the semi wind shield rock proof?

    They did during the original debut event that it was going to be extra hardened in some way, but I can't remember what e Citation needed. They did say the Semi has some kind of extra hardened glass. And yes, it's probably somewhat better, but not to Musk's exaggerated claims of perfection and...
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    Upgrading my battery 2015 P90D with a 2020 LR+ 100kwh battery a good idea?

    I don't think I know of a fixed place for that. It kind of just appears and flows all over the place, and you can try to figure it out from context or ask. Seeing SC all over the place is tough, since it's South Carolina, Supercharger, or Service Center. And the first time I saw FWD used to...
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    Battery preconditioning for CCS-1?

    The first generation 1 Superchargers were 90 kW. I do fully understand why Tesla does not and should not include third party DC fast chargers in their navigation because of their pathetic reliability in general. They do not want to be the ones suggesting those into a route plan, and then it's...
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    Don't drive my Tesla in heavy rain due to battery damage???

    It was...and it was. The first few years, including the 2014 ones did have a few known design flaws that made them susceptible to water intrusion and corrosion. That has been well known for several years here on this forum. I have a 2014 too, and it hasn't failed from this yet, but I expect...
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    Another Battery Range Concern

    That's referring to a mental decision the driver makes--not something that is entered on the Tesla screen.
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    Another Battery Range Concern

    Or by preconditioning, you're using the first 10 miles of the 7 mile commute getting it to temperature before leaving the garage. *shrug* You're spending energy that way too.
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    Battery preconditioning for CCS-1?

    The car knows that temperature curve very well and won't let it harm itself. It's the same with a CCS as with a Supercharger. Several years ago someone from the San Francisco area came through Boise and visited with me and then went on to Twin Falls and stayed overnight at a hotel. They...
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    Noticing Significant M/hr Super Charging Vs. M3 Dual Motor

    I don't think you need to change the setting if you don't want to, but this is the important thing to understand why the kW power level would be the same, but the miles per hour measurement would be vastly different because of the different vehicle efficiencies. The analogy I always use if if...
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    Battery preconditioning for CCS-1?

    These are both kind of related to the same answer. As to the first part, it's still built into the car's charging logic. If it is extremely cold and well below freezing, it turns on battery warming and will not do any charging at all until it gets warmed up some. And then it will start off...
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    Is my Mobile Connector dead?

    Except that the other "way about it" is that I think what @mxnym explained is far more likely what actually happened. Yes. Yes, the main high voltage battery pack does have a heater and coolant. Right, and all of those are explained adequately in @mxnym 's post, where it doesn't seem like the...
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    Battery preconditioning for CCS-1?

    No, and specifically, it's because Tesla did something confusing by using the exact same word to refer to two totally different things. That term preconditioning used in the cabin climate settings is prewarming the cabin, and it just barely warms the battery to above freezing as kind of a side...
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    Is my Mobile Connector dead?

    I don't believe that. Or there was a misunderstanding.
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    Gen3 Wall Connector, ABC, and allowed charging times

    Then you're misunderstanding what that philosophy is about. It's not for technical reasons or battery maintenance or life cycles. It's about making practical beneficial use of the idle time when the car is sitting doing nothing so that it doesn't become a time wasting errand for you to have to...
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    Mobile charger - Nema 5-15 @240V

    I think you have really mixed up your wording or something, because these two questions don't make any sense at all. The wall connector you mentioned in your second sentence shouldn't ever have a plug of any kind. It's supposed to be hard wired, so forget about the wall connector completely...
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    Is my Mobile Connector dead?

    What year is your car? Maybe I missed it. The older cars with the standard lead acid 12V batteries don't have any heating. On the newer cars, they have the 16V lithium ion batteries for longer lifetimes, but lithium ion batteries do have that characteristic where they get severely damaged if...
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    Failed (2nd) battery 700 miles out of warranty.

    Well, hang on. I see people mash together these two separate things all too often, pretending they happened at the same time. The battery cells generally could last a really really long time. It was bad design decisions in the early packaging construction that let water leak in and corrode...
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    Travel charger pigtails I made today

    I think you're making use of something that is decent, which is that the voltage levels can be effectively swapped through the same wiring. And the charging system of the Tesla cable and onboard chargers in the Tesla car will happily detect and use whichever voltage level it is, regardless of...
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    Leviton introduces new 14-50 receptacle for EV charging

    No, I'm going to address these: ONLY if it is between devices that are specifically marked to say they will allow connections with aluminum wire!! The aluminum use problem we see sometimes is people putting aluminum directly into wall connectors or receptacles that don't allow it. That is a...
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    I'm starting to worry a lot about my 2014 Tesla model S main battery.

    @dustinconner10 Your post is confusing, as it seems to be saying opposite, conflicting things. Do you own this car or not? You say it's the first EV you have, so it seems that you bought it, but then you say you're considering reneging on the deal, so maybe you haven't bought it yet, or are...
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    Leviton introduces new 14-50 receptacle for EV charging

    But that's the horrible thing. Those specific errors you mentioned in the first part of your sentence have nothing at all to do with EVs!! Not being able to select the right wire gauge or the right receptacle rating are just basic fundamental things for an electrician's career.
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    Leviton introduces new 14-50 receptacle for EV charging

    The thread I literally was just looking at before this was someone dealing with problems where their licensed electrician put in a circuit that was 30A, with 10 gauge wire, but the dumb electrician used a 14-50 outlet instead of the 14-30 it should have had. Yes, it's good, but a licensed...
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    Recently installed Nema 14-50 at home. Only charging 5 amps on 240v. How do i make it charge more?

    Damn that is sad that actual electricians are making such basic mistakes. Yes, that will work--for a 30A rated circuit. You can pick what level of circuit you want to use, and then there are three main pieces of it that need to be selected to properly meet the requirement of a circuit of that...
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    Recently installed Nema 14-50 at home. Only charging 5 amps on 240v. How do i make it charge more?

    OK, cool. Yeah, you should be able to match up the amp level on the breaker, the appropriate wire type, thickness, etc., and the outlet type. The 30 at the end of "14-30" means it is for a 30 amp circuit.
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    Recently installed Nema 14-50 at home. Only charging 5 amps on 240v. How do i make it charge more?

    OK, sounds fine so far. What the hell?! No, they are certainly NOT correct. Using a 50 amp outlet type on a 30 amp circuit. Get a 14-30 outlet and buy the Tesla 14-30 plug for the mobile connector. By using the wrong outlet type, with a wrong plug type on the mobile connector, you are...
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    Home charging has become more expensive than Supercharging at night. Should I still charge at home?

    People have tried that. It doesn't work. If the car is parked, it won't do the preheating for Supercharging.
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    Installing a level 3 charger at home

    For a non-starter idea, this has sure turned into a very long thread.
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    Chicago area superchargers failing in cold

    Oh, that one is helpful and overdue. It seems some of the owners from this incident freaked out because of plugging in and seeing that nothing was happening and thought it was broken and not working. The car does need to show that it is just currently not charging YET because it is heating...
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    question on Scheduled Departure charging

    ...which is even more confusing.
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    Battery charges to 80% then jumps to 83% 30 mins later

    No. All of that is the opposite. I just explained all of this. The car's estimation algorithm does think exactly that! It is recalculating, and it DOES think there is an extra 3 kWh of energy available in there because of the temperature shift from 55 to 70 degrees (for example). NO! It's...
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    question on Scheduled Departure charging

    It's because Tesla's wording on those sucks and is confusing. Scheduled departure is not a charging setting. It's for cabin warming. Then you have the setting disabled for setting an end time for charging. That's what the badly named "off peak" setting is. The charge settings you get to...
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    Level 2 at home or just Supercharge?

    The person asking is in Australia, so those aren't the right ones. Those are North America plugs. But generally, yes, there probably are multiple plug types for the mobile connector.