Great photos! Can't be long now... Bee there in a few weeks to try out! (and eat some Guthrie's Fried Chicken too...)
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Supercharger - Panama City Beach, FL
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Work is still moving on quickly! Some power equipment has been installed, one pad is still empty. The charging stations are laid out.
Charging stations installed. The fence has been pulled back to just the stations. The charging cables are the small cables which are on the 250kw stations.
Pulling cables and doing the wiring.
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The more you look at Tesla's supercharger road map, the more you realize whoever came up with does not not to the folks actually getting superchargers built. Been looking at it for years now.
Thanks for the update, but are you saying that you saw a utility transformer installed?
On posting #62 earlier this month we were looking at an empty transformer pad.
Larry
Sorry. Not sure what they look like. I am a 4 week old Tesla Owner! What I meant was that all the wiring from post 65 appeared to be completed.
When I was there Saturday the pad was still empty. The pad was poured at the same time as the other pads. There is some conduit installed. There is a transformer in the fenced off area, but it was there before the construction started. I will get back and check soon.
When visiting also look for a meter to be installed, not an empty hole where the meter should be. Looks like this: utility meter - Google Search
And since I'm posting, if anyone is in this area and looking to kill an hour or two, we could use a visit to the Marianna FL construction site. If you do visit, post an update in that thread please. Supercharger - Marianna FL
And since I'm posting, if anyone is in this area and looking to kill an hour or two, we could use a visit to the Marianna FL construction site. If you do visit, post an update in that thread please. Supercharger - Marianna FL
Thanks again for your information and congratulations on joining the Tesla ranks.
By the way, I would like to invite you to join our statewide Tesla club. If you are interested just visit our website at teslaownersflorida.org and click on the Join Us link
Since you are local, perhaps periodically you can drop by and take some high-resolution photos of the final installation. You can send them to me directly at [email protected], or post them to this thread.
The transformer will be a big green box. It will eventually be sitting on the concrete pad shown in the third photo in posting #62.
Below on the left is a photo of a utility transformer at another Supercharger location. The one at this location will be smaller.
Before the meter is installed, the Tesla contractor will first install the meter cabinet. To the right is the meter installed in the meter cabinet.
Above is a better view of the meter and meter cabinet. So a silver or grey box will be installed first by the contractor and then the local utility will plug the meter into the box.
Only after that is done will the Supercharger Station be ready to be energized.
Larry
Just visited. All the cabinet wiring is complete. The workers are prepping for the transformer. According to the workers, the transformer that was already there will feed an electrical “can” which will feed the new transformer which will be installed by tomorrow. The worker said they were going to pick up the transformer today when they leave so they can set it tomorrow.
Transformer ready to set. Meter is installed.
There is a 112KVA transformer with the Gulf Power meter which were both installed when the Busy Bee was built. Per the workers, that was done so the utility work would be out of the way. The power from that transformer goes to a connection box (installed during the current build) and then to the new transformer being installed. Here is a picture of the connection box that will connect the two transformers.
Wow!! Different setup than our usual. Guess you can't always depend on transformer/meter as the final (hold your breath) indication.
That pic is the transformer and meter for the busy bee. Meter not installed yet for Tesla
Hi Steve,
Good call and welcome to the forums.
I'm guessing that the meter for the Supercharger Station will be mounted on the wooden post in the above photo from posting #62.
Larry
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