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Supercharger - Fort Valley, GA
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Jeremy3292
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This will be called Fort Valley. @Big Earl please amend
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Danny Brown
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Progress as of yesterday afternoon (Sat, Aug 6th).
Physical work seems to be largely complete (cabinets, pedestals, sign posts, etc).
Physical work seems to be largely complete (cabinets, pedestals, sign posts, etc).
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No problem. Wish I could have gotten better pics, but was in a rush (and also had a line of cars behind me).
I'm about 80% sure I saw a concrete pad with the huge conduits coming out of it. I believe on the east side of the overall installation. Could be wrong tho- assessed on the roll!
No problem. Wish I could have gotten better pics, but was in a rush (and also had a line of cars behind me).
I'm about 80% sure I saw a concrete pad with the huge conduits coming out of it. I believe on the east side of the overall installation. Could be wrong tho- assessed on the roll!
Well I couldn’t resist it and went by the site today because I happen to be in the general area even though it was a bit of a drive.
There has indeed been progress since the 7/30 photos.
Photos follow. These were all taken from the east side, so looking west.
Photo 1 is a view looking at the front side of the installation. You can see how the dirt has been smoothed out.
Photo 2 is a wide angle view of the back side of the installation. Here you can see that there are big conduit pipes sticking out of the ground for the utility transformer.
Photo 3 is a closer view of those pipes. There are 8 of them.
Photo 4 is shows conduit pipes going up to the V3 cabinets as well as how the dirt has been filled in along the back of the pre-fab concrete.
There has indeed been progress since the 7/30 photos.
- The dirt that had been dug up to place the pre-fab units has been returned and smoothed out on the hill behind.
- It looks like the conduit has been run already based on how conduit is coming up from the ground to boxes on the side of each V3 cabinet.
- And there up is indeed a cluster of 8 large conduit pipes coming up out of the ground, well to the left (east) of the charger clusters. This must be where the utility transformer will go.
- However no forms have been placed for a concrete pad yet.
Photos follow. These were all taken from the east side, so looking west.
Photo 1 is a view looking at the front side of the installation. You can see how the dirt has been smoothed out.
Photo 2 is a wide angle view of the back side of the installation. Here you can see that there are big conduit pipes sticking out of the ground for the utility transformer.
Photo 3 is a closer view of those pipes. There are 8 of them.
Photo 4 is shows conduit pipes going up to the V3 cabinets as well as how the dirt has been filled in along the back of the pre-fab concrete.
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The fact that they used 4 prefab sections with 4 chargers plus a V3 cabinet already mounted on each concrete base and presumably already connected, meant much less work at this installation.
Fantastic report Audrey, thank you! Looks like I nailed the exact location based on that one early photo 
You certainly did nail the exact location!Fantastic report Audrey, thank you! Looks like I nailed the exact location based on that one early photo
Unfortunately a long row of gas pumps also runs along the south (back) side of the building. The supercharger install is not that far away to the west.
That parking lot was crazy full on a Sunday noon! So many cars/pickups/small RVs with trailers kept driving around and around looking for parking.
Wow!
They’ve completely re-sodded the disturbed soil and removed the construction fence and equipment. The wiring must be complete because I see one empty spool and they’ve removed the rest.
It looks like the parking stripes are done because they line up with the chargers. But they haven’t finished the signage.
Yes, it would be great to see if there is a utility transformer - big mystery.
Oh man, I don’t really have time to swing by again…….
They’ve completely re-sodded the disturbed soil and removed the construction fence and equipment. The wiring must be complete because I see one empty spool and they’ve removed the rest.
It looks like the parking stripes are done because they line up with the chargers. But they haven’t finished the signage.
Yes, it would be great to see if there is a utility transformer - big mystery.
Oh man, I don’t really have time to swing by again…….
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Well, I couldn’t help myself! We swung by the Fort Valley Buc-ee’s site today before heading north. More progress!
The utility transformer is not yet there, nor the concrete platform. An amazing kaleidoscope of wires is coming out of the conduit at the future utility transformer location.
However, we were lucky to catch a horizontal drilling team working on the power feed. They had already drilled horizontally all the way to the southeast corner of the facility, and were in the process of pulling through a huge conduit to bring the power lines to the supercharger location.
I think these photos are fairly self explanatory from the above context. The picture with the stop sign is at the southeast corner, quite far away from where the utility transformer will be placed. Pretty amazing stuff to see in action.
The utility transformer is not yet there, nor the concrete platform. An amazing kaleidoscope of wires is coming out of the conduit at the future utility transformer location.
However, we were lucky to catch a horizontal drilling team working on the power feed. They had already drilled horizontally all the way to the southeast corner of the facility, and were in the process of pulling through a huge conduit to bring the power lines to the supercharger location.
I think these photos are fairly self explanatory from the above context. The picture with the stop sign is at the southeast corner, quite far away from where the utility transformer will be placed. Pretty amazing stuff to see in action.
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Somehow, unfortunately, the order of those photos above got scrambled after I posted them. Two of the photos are of the southeast corner at one end of the drilling. The others are near the future utility transformer site where they are feeding the huge conduit through what they drilled. One of those photos shows the utility transformer site with respect to the installed chargers which are near the southwest corner.
suwaneedad
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Not sure if it's relevant to your routing Orlando/Newnan, but I just noticed an Albany GA location under construction. West of Tifton.
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I didn't know this thread existed so no photos and no specific answers...but...I stopped there yesterday afternoon (Sat. 8/20) and it looked finished so I tried to plug in but no joy, it was not turned on yet.
Thanks for testing it!
Did you notice a big green utility transformer on the left (east) side of the chargers?
Did you notice a big green utility transformer on the left (east) side of the chargers?
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