NovemberXray
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What a season for snow in Bend this year! Half the stalls are blocked by a mountain today.
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⚡️ELECTROMAN⚡️
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I was there yesterday and parked in 1A the head in spot. Wasn't sharing with 1B. Was only getting around 22kW for most of my charge. It was 84°, would that affect charge rate that much? Too impatient to try moving to a different stall. Left with 40 minutes of charging left. Charging in Sunriver on a 120V at 3 miles an hour now.
goneskiian
Active Member
84 degrees shouldn't affect the charge much. What was your SOC? At only 22kW I would have moved immediately.
Switching stalls definitely would have been a faster solution than plugging into an L1
In 2016 when I went to California, I ran into that at Gilroy. Two days later I met a tech at Manteca replacing the charging cables on the superchargers. He told me Tesla was having a problem with the superchargers in California wearing out prematurely from a combination of heavy use and ambient heat. When the equipment doesn't get a chance to cool down between uses, it wears out fast. Hot weather makes this worse. Slow charging is usually the primary symptom of this.
It could be one or more of the stalls at Bend has begun to degrade. Contact Tesla service and report the issue. The guy I talked to at Manteca was about to get transferred to Vancouver, WA where he was going to be the primary tech for all the NW superchargers. Superchargers develop problems, but they are very quick to fix them once they know about them. Back in 2016 they were servicing all the west coast superchargers out of the Bay Area, but now they have people placed more regionally for better service.
It could be one or more of the stalls at Bend has begun to degrade. Contact Tesla service and report the issue. The guy I talked to at Manteca was about to get transferred to Vancouver, WA where he was going to be the primary tech for all the NW superchargers. Superchargers develop problems, but they are very quick to fix them once they know about them. Back in 2016 they were servicing all the west coast superchargers out of the Bay Area, but now they have people placed more regionally for better service.
⚡️ELECTROMAN⚡️
Village Idiot
I was thinking about calling them to see if there might be a problem with my car. I went back today to the Bend Supercharger on a different stall and got around 50kW. It started out around 85kW for a few minutes.
McManX
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GHammer
Dark Star
My daughter was at this supercharger last night and tried 4 different stalls and couldn't get a stable charge. It would ramp up and the power level would bounce around and then drop back to zero then ramp back up, bouce, zero repeat. Tesla roadside said they had a call the previous night about this location doing the same thing but they were able to get it to work by turning the car off for five minutes. Didn't work for us, she finally had to get a slow charge at a local hotel.
I’ve had that happen with a cold battery and a very low charge (~3%). After about 15 mins of that it finally started to charge
GHammer
Dark Star
We thought about that because it was cold out but the battery was warm after having driven for three hours to get there and it was at 30%
I used this supercharger a couple weeks ago with the temperature around freezing and it was fine. So something has changed recently unfortunately.
I did experience this type of behavior a couple times at both Midland, TX and Lincoln, NE and temperatures were warm for those. Both times I was able to slowly gain enough charge to get to the next supercharger simply by unplugging and plugging back in and then repeating the process over and over again. Each time it would take a few minutes to ramp up to 100kW or so and then back down to 0kW, and it would give me an additional 20 rated miles or so. In fact, I think by the end of it, I figured out that I didn't even have to unplug and plug in, but I could just re-initiate the charge from the touchscreen. So it was annoying but not the end of the world.
I did experience this type of behavior a couple times at both Midland, TX and Lincoln, NE and temperatures were warm for those. Both times I was able to slowly gain enough charge to get to the next supercharger simply by unplugging and plugging back in and then repeating the process over and over again. Each time it would take a few minutes to ramp up to 100kW or so and then back down to 0kW, and it would give me an additional 20 rated miles or so. In fact, I think by the end of it, I figured out that I didn't even have to unplug and plug in, but I could just re-initiate the charge from the touchscreen. So it was annoying but not the end of the world.
smatthew
Active Member
At the Sunriver destination chargers, there are two locking power outlets on the other side of the meter panel. I forgot to take a picture of them. If anyone ends up using those chargers, could you take a picture of the outlets? They're big and round and have a center pin....
Might have been 3 phase 240V
Electrical Outlet Types of North America - Free Knowledge Base- The DUCK Project: information for everyone
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