Yes @SageBrush , I know about the "afterburner" and you are correct. I believe however that with a battery in the 52C range it would not be doing that. It would instead be trying to cool it, as the simple act of charging would continue to heat the battery and it's plenty warm already.
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In progress: Model 3 pulling loaded 1,900lbs~ 5x8 utility trailer 1,700 miles
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SageBrush
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My admittedly very vague memory is that the pack can reach ~ mid 50s C during V3 Supercharging. That number has to be verified though, and it also does not say when the afterburner turns off. The SMT screenshot shows the 'R stator' at 61C so the afterburner is supplying heat. It is possible that is a dysfunctional state of affairs but it would surprise me it that was true and the car was not throwing up errors.
jebinc
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finman100
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I have the eco hitch from Torklift. Installed myself and use it with a small Harbor freight trailer. also wired in the LED trailer lights (this is not me, just a reference to help) straight to the Model 3 tail lights. works great going on 3 years now! But...only around town at slow speeds, ha. to the hardware store, etc. Now i want to get it out on the open road!
Great thread. great trip. Glad you made it. What hitch do you have? How many pull thru Superchargers did you find versus how many unhitch-charge-rehitch did you have to do?
Awesome job. The Cybertruck has nothing on this one.
Great thread. great trip. Glad you made it. What hitch do you have? How many pull thru Superchargers did you find versus how many unhitch-charge-rehitch did you have to do?
Awesome job. The Cybertruck has nothing on this one.
Thanks for the great data. Will look forward to your wrap-up, hope the cooling issue resolves itself. Bad thermostat? Flaky valve?
One more plug for the free version of ABRP, it shows you your charging curve as you charge, so you can keep track of strange anomalies:
The blue rectangle at the top is the status and shows how close I am to SOC target before continuing my trip; the bottom part shows how the supercharging session is going, in graphical form. The blue line is predicted, the green line is actual. There was a momentary blip in my charging, when I hit 50% SOC, which you can see in the gray area, which is why I screenshotted it.
One more plug for the free version of ABRP, it shows you your charging curve as you charge, so you can keep track of strange anomalies:
The blue rectangle at the top is the status and shows how close I am to SOC target before continuing my trip; the bottom part shows how the supercharging session is going, in graphical form. The blue line is predicted, the green line is actual. There was a momentary blip in my charging, when I hit 50% SOC, which you can see in the gray area, which is why I screenshotted it.
Ryan Autry
2020 Model S Performance
I came in here to say the same thing.I am humbled by the extreme nerdiness of creating a Sketchup packing diagram. Bonus points for the FLIR photo. Love my FLIR One Pro.
Bravo, limmerguy for sharing this trip with us.
Great thread, thanks for sharing!
As one who wants to tow a small camper with my model 3, I like that you made it happen.
Earlier this year I took an 8k mile road trip across the country and back, all the while carrying a cargo rack on the back of my 3 with a stealth hitch. I learned a few things:
1. The load rating of the amazon carrying rack is pretty firm, we barely exceeded it and it slowly drooped more and more across the country, bending if we hit a very large bump.
2. The rear of the 3 goes through very significant toe changes with ride height. We totally destroyed the inside edge of a set of new tires in 6k miles due to the rear end squat from loading it down with our camping gear and 2 long-range electric scooters on the cargo rack. Luckily this showed up as a slow leak while we were in the desert and we found 4 tires in a pretty small town so were able to continue.
3. I have MPP sport coilovers, which were barely lowered any from the stock 3 Performance height. They worked great, though we were way too low in hindsight. We used a 4" receiver hitch rise adaptor with a 9" extension and then cut the extension part down as much as possible.
As one who wants to tow a small camper with my model 3, I like that you made it happen.
Earlier this year I took an 8k mile road trip across the country and back, all the while carrying a cargo rack on the back of my 3 with a stealth hitch. I learned a few things:
1. The load rating of the amazon carrying rack is pretty firm, we barely exceeded it and it slowly drooped more and more across the country, bending if we hit a very large bump.
2. The rear of the 3 goes through very significant toe changes with ride height. We totally destroyed the inside edge of a set of new tires in 6k miles due to the rear end squat from loading it down with our camping gear and 2 long-range electric scooters on the cargo rack. Luckily this showed up as a slow leak while we were in the desert and we found 4 tires in a pretty small town so were able to continue.
3. I have MPP sport coilovers, which were barely lowered any from the stock 3 Performance height. They worked great, though we were way too low in hindsight. We used a 4" receiver hitch rise adaptor with a 9" extension and then cut the extension part down as much as possible.
DocHolliday
Member
I have a few hundred pics, including us driving through Titus Canyon in Death Valley.
Here's at the start of the road trip before 8k miles of fun and adventure.
Here is when we drove through Titus Canyon
And here is the last supercharging spot, showing the hardware we took across the country and how it held up.
As you can see we were low AF.
Wow
There's 300 lbs, then there's 300 lbs 2 feet back from the hitch.
That might take the prize from @ohmman's weight distribution setup for the most abuse a hitch on a Tesla has been put through.
Actual weight was about 170 lbs of weight in the rack, and the rack itself was another 100 lbs all together with the extension and stealth hitch.Wow
There's 300 lbs, then there's 300 lbs 2 feet back from the hitch.
That might take the prize from @ohmman's weight distribution setup for the most abuse a hitch on a Tesla has been put through.
I just re-read the amazon item to see what its weight was. Comically it says it has a 500 lb weight limit!
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