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Supercharger - Peoria, IL - N Sheridan Rd
- Thread starter midwestLemur
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jessebkr87
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Stopped by tonight in my Model Y that I picked up today (zero issues with it) and was saddened to see this. Hopefully it was the wind and not some asshat.
scottf200
Well-Known Member
Glad it had zero issues. BTW, did you pick up the piece and reattach it the best you could? That was unclear.
jessebkr87
Member
I wasn’t sure if I should try or not. One thought that crossed my mind was that if it is laying there Tesla (or whoever) would see it when they come to turn on the Supercharger this week. Unless that’s done remotely? If you think it’s a good idea to do that I will totally go back.
jessebkr87
Member
I went back up there. It was definitely from the wind. None of the stalls have screws in any of the holes.
I snapped the cover back on, so hopefully it stays and hopefully they put screws in when they come to turn it on.
jessebkr87
Member
Thanks, I did not realize that. Reading the nameplates on the Peoria V3 cabinets is interesting. Each cabinet feeds 4 stalls with each output showing 250kW which matches marketing information. However, each cabinet nameplate shows Max continuous power of 350KVA AC IN and 575 kW DC IN/OUT. Two cabinets together feeding 8 X posts at 250kW is 2000 kW. But the highest power looks to be 350KVA X 2 or up to 700kW at 1.0 PF . Maybe some overloading is allowed so 1000 kW looks possible as the MAX for this V3 site. This means two V3 cabinets could not supply all 8 posts with 250kW each. One cabinet could supply 4 posts at 250kW each IF the other cabinet directs all it's DC power into the first as well (no power to stalls) AND the cabinets go above nameplate for a short period of time. I think this is some clever engineering on Tesla's part to balance component cost and maximize device utilization. Likely also based on real-world charging data suggesting it is very unlikely to have 8 cars plugged in AND all being able to take 250kW so why spend the money to install that much capacity if you can interconnect cabinets to get to ~1000kW. Better then V2 which had the individual cabinets with no ability for a cabinet to help another cabinet.
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jessebkr87
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Just stopped by and the Tesla guys are there still. The lights are on on the stalls. He said “hopefully” it’s active today. I told them about the plastic covers blowing off the stalls last night and he said that my email to the Bloomington Service Center did make it to him. Great news!
I look forward to never using the way-out-of-the-way Bloomington-Normal supercharger, ever again.
jessebkr87
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jessebkr87
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A fellow member of a local Facebook group just stopped by and said the techs said it’s updating and testing and it should be good to go tomorrow!
jessebkr87
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It’s open! The last stall (the one that had the covers blow off) is not working yet. The techs made it sound like they will be back tomorrow, though.
jessebkr87
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jessebkr87
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Yep...and apparently selected too many photos and can't seem to edit/remove the post! Whoops.Hey, you made an account. Welcome!
jessebkr87
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I vaguely remember having to wait a few days to be able to edit or something of that nature.
Make sense to prevent people from using new accounts to cause trouble. Oh well, others can laugh at Facebook ads I find entertaining lol. Now that this one is open, I get to obsessively watch Columbia MO next
Hope to see you around! Enjoy the new YSimilar threads
