So I have a story about my recent trip to Las Vegas that i thought the Tesla community would be interested in.
I arrived at the Barstow location with 2 MS charing and one waiting. After arriving we determined order and I had lunch with a wonderful couple.
Also it was determined that the right charger was the faster one by the owners that arrived fist. So we came up with an order to charge on what charger determined by who arrived first. It seemed that on charger would charge at about 150 to 200 miles per our and the other only at about 70.
So after some great conversions and 3 hours i got back on my way to Vegas.
Now on my way back to Los Angeles I arrived to construction at the supercharger. All bays were blocked off. I was really concerned for about 2 second till I was waived in by the constitution crew and the blocked stall was made available. Now this was concerning to me because this was the "slow stall" I started charging and found that i was getting 200mph great! Just after i arrived another MS showed up and needed a charge badly he was at 1mile left. The crew was making room for him at the other bay. He was here on my way out and knew that the order was who ever was first got the faster charger so i moved over to the newly available stall and he took mine. Well now i was only at 70mph and he got 150. This got me thinking that the faster charger was not determined by being closer to the supercharger but by who connected first. I was ok with him getting the faster speed especially when i found out that one of his passengers was in in jeopardy of missing his flight at LAX.
So now i was hanging out in Chilies and found one of Teslas Elections eating lunch. I struck up a conversation with him about what i was experiencing and about the superchargers in general. I told him that it seems that one car charges at a faster rate than the other and that maybe it was determined by who plugged in first.
He said he had never been informed of this and would look into it. He also informed that 2 bays are supplied by one unit. He also said that the ones currently in use at barstow are gen 1 and the ones he was installing are gen 3. After some time I noticed that the other MS had left so i checked my app and found that it was only charging at 70mph still so this made me thing that it does not switch when the other MS disconnects. I went out side and disconnected and reconnected.
My charge now topped out at 170mph. I told the tesla tech this and he said it must be a software thing and will have it checked out.
It seems that the Gen 1 charger has 12 charging units and the first car to hook up gets 8 and the second 4.
I hope that my experience sheds some light the "Faster stall" stories we have all been hearing.
By the way the extra 2 units are going to be finished by Friday if everything goes to plan.
I would also like to thank the Tesla Tech that was so informative and willing to listen. I hope they come up with a patch that will be fair. The Tech said that if only one car is charging they should get he max amount of charging units but when someone else connects it should switch to an equal amount of charging units and when someone disconnects it reverts back to the max. I hope this can be the case and im happy i helped to find this out. Not sure it it only affects gen one all superchargers.
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I arrived at the Barstow location with 2 MS charing and one waiting. After arriving we determined order and I had lunch with a wonderful couple.
Also it was determined that the right charger was the faster one by the owners that arrived fist. So we came up with an order to charge on what charger determined by who arrived first. It seemed that on charger would charge at about 150 to 200 miles per our and the other only at about 70.
So after some great conversions and 3 hours i got back on my way to Vegas.
Now on my way back to Los Angeles I arrived to construction at the supercharger. All bays were blocked off. I was really concerned for about 2 second till I was waived in by the constitution crew and the blocked stall was made available. Now this was concerning to me because this was the "slow stall" I started charging and found that i was getting 200mph great! Just after i arrived another MS showed up and needed a charge badly he was at 1mile left. The crew was making room for him at the other bay. He was here on my way out and knew that the order was who ever was first got the faster charger so i moved over to the newly available stall and he took mine. Well now i was only at 70mph and he got 150. This got me thinking that the faster charger was not determined by being closer to the supercharger but by who connected first. I was ok with him getting the faster speed especially when i found out that one of his passengers was in in jeopardy of missing his flight at LAX.
So now i was hanging out in Chilies and found one of Teslas Elections eating lunch. I struck up a conversation with him about what i was experiencing and about the superchargers in general. I told him that it seems that one car charges at a faster rate than the other and that maybe it was determined by who plugged in first.
He said he had never been informed of this and would look into it. He also informed that 2 bays are supplied by one unit. He also said that the ones currently in use at barstow are gen 1 and the ones he was installing are gen 3. After some time I noticed that the other MS had left so i checked my app and found that it was only charging at 70mph still so this made me thing that it does not switch when the other MS disconnects. I went out side and disconnected and reconnected.
My charge now topped out at 170mph. I told the tesla tech this and he said it must be a software thing and will have it checked out.
It seems that the Gen 1 charger has 12 charging units and the first car to hook up gets 8 and the second 4.
I hope that my experience sheds some light the "Faster stall" stories we have all been hearing.
By the way the extra 2 units are going to be finished by Friday if everything goes to plan.
I would also like to thank the Tesla Tech that was so informative and willing to listen. I hope they come up with a patch that will be fair. The Tech said that if only one car is charging they should get he max amount of charging units but when someone else connects it should switch to an equal amount of charging units and when someone disconnects it reverts back to the max. I hope this can be the case and im happy i helped to find this out. Not sure it it only affects gen one all superchargers.
C
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