Checked it out yesterday, still no meter. No one has been there for weeks as one of the units covers was blown off in the wind storm we had and it's still laying in the grass. Wonder what the hold up is on this one.
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Supercharger - Des Moines, IA (NW 2nd St)
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SilverMonk
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Stopped by this site this morning.
Weather was windy and frigid, so I did not spend any time looking the site over.
Attached are a couple of pictures I quickly snapped before my hands froze.
I did not notice the blown off cover as mentioned by @gessner17 above.
The second photo is a close up of the meter - it was blank, i.e. no sign that it had power.
I plugged in, but car said something like " no power".
Weather was windy and frigid, so I did not spend any time looking the site over.
Attached are a couple of pictures I quickly snapped before my hands froze.
I did not notice the blown off cover as mentioned by @gessner17 above.
The second photo is a close up of the meter - it was blank, i.e. no sign that it had power.
I plugged in, but car said something like " no power".
Chargers are on but max power was 44kW at 7deg and cold battery. Started at 1kW and slowly ramped up over 10 minutes.
Correction: 51kW max after 30min.
Your charging rate is consistent with comment you made for your first visit of 7 deg ambient and cold battery. If your car has been sitting outside at those temperatures, my experience on my MD90D is it can take up to two hours of driving on the interstate before I can expect to get supercharging rates approaching the maximum rate that my car can sustain. And yes, that's even with putting the supercharger in as my destination. I much better test of whether the station if fully commissioned and giving max charging rates would be driving over from say Iowa City to give it a try.
Just my experience over 5.5 years of ownership and numerous cold weather trips.
DataMN
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Stopped here on 12.29.23 direct from Omaha. OS temp was about 25. SOC was 30%. Still only got 50kw!! Anyone with more recent experience? Will be coming thru again and will need to chose. Thanks.
Have you supercharged since this trip? Were you navigating to the superchargers to pre-condition the battery? The fact that you were only pulling 50 kW both here and in Lincoln would be more indicative of some sort of issue with your car rather than the super chargers.
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