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Supercharger - North Las Vegas, NV (Craig & Losee)

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Matsayz

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New find per a FB member on the Las Vegas group. Pictures pending that members approval for use.

Craig and Losee behind the Del Taco. This is across Losee rd from the Cannery Casino. I’ll try to find the permit shortly and some more pictures as well

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North Las Vegas, NV

Host Type: Restaurant
Host: Del Taco
Along Primary Interstates: I-15
Along US Numbered Highways (<=5mi): US-93
Along Auxiliary Interstates: None

US-93

From: Las Vegas - Bridger Ave, NV (v2) - 8.2 miles
To: Ely, NV - 277.3 miles (Permit)
Diversion: 2 miles
From: Las Vegas - E Sahara Ave (SC), NV - 13.6 miles
To: Wells, NV - 415.4 miles

Las Vegas charging away from the bulk in central Las Vegas, a little closer to Mesquite, NV and Ely, NV.
 
Drove by this morning and snagged some pictures. Guys were out there working before 6am to beat the heat.
 

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Update, still waiting on a transformer… worker said “waiting on NV Energy to do their part”… ain’t that the truth!

Sooo much traffic speeding through the parking/charging area here, be careful when charging here!
 

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12 stalls. They look ready. 3 supercharger cabinets and the 1600 amp switchgear cabinet. Don't see a pad with transformer anywhere close by.

Located Basically behind the Del Taco, near the Love Store.
 

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Aren’t the transformers the big white cabinets?
No, transformers are typically painted green (?to blend in), like the big green box in IMG_7693 in the post just beneath yours.
The left side (in this picture) is a cabinet area where connections from the high voltage are made, typically a switch, and the low voltage connections.
To the right is the transformer core and coils, submerged in cooling oil.
Surprised in the Vegas heat this transformer doesn't have cooling fins, but this is "only" 12 stalls.
The transformer converts the high voltage input (NV energy is typically 12,000 volts or 25,000 volts) to the 277 volts (hot to ground) / 480 volts (hot to another phase hot) "low" voltage.

The low voltage is metered, probably in the switchgear cabinets (those in IMG_7695).
The switchgear cabinets will also have circuit breakers for each of the power conversion cabinets and a few small ones for lighting and communications equipment.

From the switchgear, power is fed to the power conversion cabinets (aka V3 cabinets) - the white cabinets with the vent screen at the top,
like the 3 shown in the middle of IMG_8833 in Matsayz's post above yours. The power conversion cabinets turn the AC into DC and feed it to the 4 charging posts (aka pedestals) connected to it under control of the car's battery management system.
The V3 cabinets can also share DC power via a DC buss that connects each of them.
 
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