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Supercharger - Carlsbad, CA (7710 El Camino Real, LIVE 27 Sep 2018, 26 urban stalls)
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bkp_duke
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EGK1
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EGK1
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I am now seeing that it would be easier viewing for me to insert the images. I will try to do similar photos every Saturday or Sunday to capture the progress.
Great pics!! Perfect viewing angle.
I find the wood molds at the stall side interesting. If these molds are suggestive of the final base appearance, these are different from the classic style superchargers, which have a narrow rectangular base. The wider base I see here seems more consistent with the ones I see in this image at Downey. Could these be Urban-style stalls here too?
I find the wood molds at the stall side interesting. If these molds are suggestive of the final base appearance, these are different from the classic style superchargers, which have a narrow rectangular base. The wider base I see here seems more consistent with the ones I see in this image at Downey. Could these be Urban-style stalls here too?
EGK1
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Captrod
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I was at the site on Saturday, and because no one was there I was able to get a pretty good look at what was going on. The contractor is moving along at a decent rate of speed, with interesting results, at least for us supercharging geeks! So far, in the upper lot there are nine back-in electrical stubs on the far right as shown in the photos taken by EGK1 (only eight shown in the last photo), and as mentioned before, what appear to be five pull through stubs on the left, shown in photos one and two. What is also intriguing are two (so far) pedestals located in the lower parking lot. That surprises me, as I thought all 26 chargers were going to be in the upper lot! Time will tell.
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TerranApart
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Are the two conduits (near the fire hydrant) perhaps attached to the two urban-style chargers on the lower lot? Or am I misunderstanding the layout?
Captrod
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TerranApart, I think you got the layout correct. The two conduits which originate in the upper parking lot, run downhill to where the fire hydrant is located, make a 90 degree bend as shown and go underground right at the security fence. The conduits go into a ditch, which now appears to be partially filled and compacted, thence to the pedestals. It is unknown if an additional one or two pedestals will be added. There seems to be room, but it looks as if they are done with that portion of the conduit to pedestal install at the lower lot. I don't think they plan on running additional conduits downhill.
SDRick
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No. Could be weeks or months. We have seen some sites go from breaking ground to live in just a few weeks, to looking done, yet taking an entire year. It all depends on inspections, local utility compliance with the transformer (typically the final step), etc. We simply never know.
I know this is in Carlsbad, but Encinitas it
s attempting to single handily stop global warming. It’s in their annual report. They should be head over heals to let Tesla do whatever they want skipping codes and short cuts. My solar panels are too high and out of code and they knowingly let it pass, because it’s solar panels.
s attempting to single handily stop global warming. It’s in their annual report. They should be head over heals to let Tesla do whatever they want skipping codes and short cuts. My solar panels are too high and out of code and they knowingly let it pass, because it’s solar panels.
I’m here at the site. The San Diego region Supercharger curse hits again. How hard is it to run conduit to code? Sure enough, they had to move the metal conduit from the fire hydrant area and trench it beside the retaining wall.
But they didn’t do the rework properly. Somehow these guys don’t understand the concept of electrical conduit needing to be 18” underground....
Other than this continual conduit screw up, doesn’t look like a lot got done yesterday and today other than pouring concrete edges for the two stalls below the parking lot. The you can see the two urban style SC pedestals lying on the ground.
