What is wrong with superchargers 4A and 3A at this site?
I am refilling at 230Am to make it home and have had multiple isssues.
4A was charging fast until when I hit 44% and then my MS85 sounded like it was going to take off. Huge buzzing sound! Was at 88kW at the time.
Then I moved over to 3A and was not able to get any charger fluctuating from 0-16kW and getting buzzing sounds.
I am at 2A now and getting expected charging rates and little to no noise.
After the first bad pedestal you encounter, consider calling Tesla (using the customer service phone number printed on each pedestal). Ask them for the best pedestals at the site and/or which ones to avoid (whichever ends up being the shorter list).
While there is a feature request somewhere in the queue to add more value to the Nav info (updated green/yellow/red/grey bars for relative pedestal health instead of just red as it is today), for now, calling is your best option. To maximize the value of the 3-5 minutes that such a call takes, I’ll ask about all of the remaining sites for the next leg of my trip. So maybe 6-7 sites over 1000 miles, for example.
While the information you get is a snapshot in time, it’s generally spot on, and can save, collectively, hours otherwise spent playing pedestal roulette at, say, 0230 during a holiday weekend.
The last couple of longer road trips (LA to BC/AB and LA to ID and back) have had a higher number of bad pedestals, and a trip 6 months ago from LA to SD to VT had a bad (whole) site that caused all sorts of problems - especially since it wasn’t marked as bad in Nav until the day after I called (despite problems logged in PlugShare for 2 weeks).
So... calling ahead until we get more (and more accurate/timely) info in Nav is yer best bet. The representatives have always been willing to help. Better to have the knowledge and use it than to keep getting frustrated.
Lastly, Redondo had a supply issue earlier in the year (SoCal Edison) but that’s been fixed. It’s a busy site, tho (livery, travelers, commuters, non-garaged locals). Can go from full to empty to full in the course of an hour.