Stopped by Salina today while on another mission in my Twin Ice Vehicle. Here it is parked on the ramp of the Salina Airport (a former SAC B-52 base) with a bunch of Twin Ice Warthogs in the background. My life is a schizophrenic carbon footprint...
I drove to the Holiday Inn Express, but it was lunch time and no one was there. It was hard to tell if it was work day or not. As I lingered a while, the crew started coming back. This is the same crew that did Silverthorne, Moab, Blanding, and Goodland.
Good news:
- They hope to be done before the Fourth of July Weekend!
- They are tapping off of the HV from the hotel transformer at the end of the Charging Pedestals, so access for the Utility Connection is easy.
- They are very experienced and know all the lingo, 60, 85, taper, etc. This was not true of the first Supercharger Crew that I met in Farmington.
- They are pretty sure that they are going to St George after the Fourth.
Bad News:
- The spots are pretty prime for hotel guests, and worse yet, the current plan is NO Tesla or EV signage to prevent icing. This was the hotel owners request.
- They wanted to put the Stalls in a spot that would not be so ICE tempting, but the town overruled them; too much clutter by the road...
- They think that utility connections may create a delay in St George.
- The closest food is a quarter mile away, and it's a selection of fast food.
- Decent local food is a 5 mile round trip.
The site layout:
Pictures with descriptions:
Equipment ready to be installed:
The equipment area. The transformer will be at the back right, the Distribution Center at the back left, and the 3 Supercharger Cabinets in the foreground.
Six Stalls, Total:
The existing Hotel Transformer. It is 300 kVA, 208/120 Volt, 3-Phase. The transformer for the Superscharger station will probably be 500 kVA, 480/277 Volt, 3-Phase. They ran a conduit for the HV lines from this transformer to the new Supercharger transformer in the same trench as the conduits to the pedestals, but I am sure deeper.