Where do you find the Scottsdale Super Charger? I looked on Tesla's Find Us and Supercharge.info and found no reference to a Super Charger in Scottsdale. I saw some destination chargers, but no SC.
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Supercharger - Lynnwood WA
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Where do you find the Scottsdale Super Charger? I looked on Tesla's Find Us and Supercharge.info and found no reference to a Super Charger in Scottsdale. I saw some destination chargers, but no SC.
Xtek
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The pedestals for the old and new style are empty. They are there for show so it makes sense to move to the more compact ones.
Just got back from the Lynnwood Supercharger construction site- Except for the utility transformer, it's pretty much finished. 10 stalls, ( the 10th one is right next to the charger cabinets. The fence kept me from getting up to the cabinets to check out the nameplate ratings
I have about 80k miles on my car and have used superchargers for ~60k of those miles. My max charge rate is now only about 90kW and often much less. This apparently is to protect the battery from excessive supercharging. There is a thread about it somewhere on the battery and charging forum.
OK, so it isn't that a 135kW Supercharger fried your battery, it was just switched to the charging curve with a lower maximum. (Which by the way happens even if you only use lowly ~40kW CHAdeMO chargers a lot of times.)
So using the slower 72kW Urban Superchargers wouldn't prevent what happened to you.
Xtek
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Battery protection mode is kicked in by using DC charging, not high power charging. So in theory even 20kW DC charging would trigger it as well.
I keep driving by this one but it's always dark, usually raining and they have it fenced off pretty well so I haven't bothered taking pictures.
The main differences from the last pics are that there are now 3 large white metal boxes to the right of the 5 supercharger cabinets on the concrete pad. I'm honestly not sure exactly what these are. Definitely looks different than what I see at non-urban superchargers. They have also installed some very large posts which look like they will eventually create a large wall or enclosure around the cabinet/transformer area. And there is still an empty concrete pad where the transformer will presumably be placed. So it looks like we are fairly close to the "waiting for transformer/meter/testing/activation" phase of the process.
The main differences from the last pics are that there are now 3 large white metal boxes to the right of the 5 supercharger cabinets on the concrete pad. I'm honestly not sure exactly what these are. Definitely looks different than what I see at non-urban superchargers. They have also installed some very large posts which look like they will eventually create a large wall or enclosure around the cabinet/transformer area. And there is still an empty concrete pad where the transformer will presumably be placed. So it looks like we are fairly close to the "waiting for transformer/meter/testing/activation" phase of the process.
Yarder
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I came to Lynnwood yesterday directly from Aberdeen. I forgot my big thick 220 extension cord, so I had to go on to Monroe to charge up. Got there with 20 miles left. I ALMOST went by the Lynnwood Supercharger in hopes it would be open, but I didn't have the extra miles for that. When I got back to Lynnwood, plugged into 110, and only took 8 hours to charge back the miles from Monroe to Lynnwood.
The three large white boxes are probably for incoming power distribution. They used to be grey, but I'm seeing more white cabinets now. They generally sit on the same slab as the superchargers. The Vancouver, WA site is still waiting for these, despite having everything else (including the utility transformer). I wonder if there has been a supply issue.
TF Friday
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Stopped by today, looks almost ready to go. Must be waiting final inspection.
Construction looks visibly complete but no power, the utility trailer and bobcat are pulled off to the side and all the construction tape and barriers are gone.
Construction looks visibly complete but no power, the utility trailer and bobcat are pulled off to the side and all the construction tape and barriers are gone.
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Xtek
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Probably awaiting final inspection, also looks like they need to paint.
Any chance you got a glance at the back of the pedestals? Wondering what their output is.
Thanks for the recon, @TF Friday! It appears from one of your photos that the utility transformer is still missing from the concrete pad next to the Tesla equipment. Once the utility installs the transformer, the wait here should shift from weeks to days.
My current understanding (pardon the pun) is that this type of supercharger supplies an unshared 72 kW to both of its charging bollards.
My current understanding (pardon the pun) is that this type of supercharger supplies an unshared 72 kW to both of its charging bollards.
Yes, I drove by this morning and it's definitely still awaiting the transformer.
Also, I was wrong about them building an enclosure. They did install some rather significant posts near the equipment but they are just there to prevent people from (presumably accidentally) driving into it. I noticed that the propane tank and even the air/water pump had similar posts around them so this could just be something that Fred Meyer wanted to have done.
Lastly, it is super awkward to plug these chargers in. I wonder if they installed them wrong or if it is just a really poor design. It will be even worse in a cold snap, although at least in this area it doesn't typically get a whole lot colder than the 42F or whatever it was when I was there.
Also, I was wrong about them building an enclosure. They did install some rather significant posts near the equipment but they are just there to prevent people from (presumably accidentally) driving into it. I noticed that the propane tank and even the air/water pump had similar posts around them so this could just be something that Fred Meyer wanted to have done.
Lastly, it is super awkward to plug these chargers in. I wonder if they installed them wrong or if it is just a really poor design. It will be even worse in a cold snap, although at least in this area it doesn't typically get a whole lot colder than the 42F or whatever it was when I was there.
