Thanks I was there last Monday, and I charged on the way back from Houston. Was down to 10% when I plugged in. I was the only one. Walked over to the Mama Junitas Mexican and had a nice dinner. The charge was over 90% before we could even finish the meal. The charge rate was around 100 KW for until it got to 50% and then tapered down.
I charged there again yesterday, and it was FULL. I was down to 40 miles of range, but it never got up beyond 60kw. As people left I tried different stalls and it was the same, between 55 to 60kw. Got frustrated and decided to leave after 20 minutes to drive down to Corsicana. Also I noticed this time around, I never got the message, "preheating battery for optimal supercharging" which typically comes around 10 minutes before you reach supercharger.
No V3 at this location. I know there was issues happening at the Rudy's off of 290. A few weeks back I was approached by one of the SC techs that mention they are working on the issue here. He mention sometimes power is not constant on Texas's grid due to the wind power. If you look closely at the picture. you will see they were installing boxes on each one of the back cabinets. What are they? Capacitors, batteries?
The little boxes are for voltage regulation. The boxes have been installed at other sites, but have usually been installed when the site was originally set up.
They are autotransformers used as a buck/boost transformer to adjust the electrical voltage going to the supercharger cabinets.
Another thing that sucks is that the hotel allows ICE cars to park in one of the supercharging parking spaces. Once there was a line of Teslas waiting to charge while a truck was parked in a supercharging space. I asked the hotel clerk to ask the guest to move the truck but the clerk said that they don't track guests' cars.
Sometimes that North Houston can be a crap shoot. Not enough spaces and so busy. Good spot with Strips through the gate. Good bathrooms. Great coffee and all kinds of food and other drinks.
What’s wrong with Columbus? Pulled 130KW there once with our MX Standard.You've obviously not been to Columbus then
Last time I was there two of the stalls were dead, one was barely functional and of the remaining three only one would give more than 50k, but at least it gave me more the 100k.
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They need to get this all worked out. It's becoming a chore going North of Houston. Even the service center super charger is a crap shoot.
