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Supercharger - San Juan Capistrano, CA (7 V2 stalls)
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Teriyaki88
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Benz
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The San Juan Capistrano Supercharger station was a red dot on the Summer 2013 Supercharger Map. And now, summer 2014 is approaching rapidly. Let's just hope that this Supercharger station goes live before the summer of 2014 starts. That would be nice.
tonygod
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I stopped by and snapped a couple of pics. Workers were on site and I chatted to one of them for a few minutes. He said they don't have a concrete timeline, but thought the testing would be sometime in May.
Per Cottonwood's comment #386, the transformer has still not appeared on sight ? Does anyone have a photo showing the transformer pad done with conduit embedded ?
Since Tesla contracts for its power "At (high) Voltage" I would think that means that installing the transformer would be their responsibility, but perhaps not.
Since Tesla contracts for its power "At (high) Voltage" I would think that means that installing the transformer would be their responsibility, but perhaps not.
These photos taken over the lunch hour today. The first two pictures, taken of the space just behind the transformer shack (third photo), show work completed since last night. The second photo show the slab with conduit sweeps coming from the street and going into the transformer shack. Presumably this is where the 12KV step-down transformer goes. The work in the street covered the conduit trench to the SDG&E vault with dirt and asphalt. The earlier completion time estimate (May testing) may well be reliable given the amount of work remaining. The "user" end of the system appears to be fully wired and ready for use.
I stopped by the site a few hours after WNB took pics. The curbs around the transformer pads were formed up and
Utility lateral ducts (conduit from SDGE to transformer locations) are in, so it doesn't seem that any more major trenching will be necessary.
Crew very friendly, laughed and told me they'd never worked on such a highly anticipated project.
They predicted completion in mid-May.
A quick note on what may seem glacial construction progress: the work crews do not set the overall pace.
They are not on site every day. Their managers will mostly only send them to the site when there is enough work to justify sending a crew for a day or more. In between, it may seem that nothing is happening - the contractor and crews have probably gone as far as they can and will not return until some additional element has been completed by another player in the process - an inspection or permit that must be approved/completed by Tesla, a lender, the city, the county, state or utility before the next phase may proceed. The State and Federal governments are involved in these projects (rebates, subsidies etc), so there is a complicated process of control and approvals happening off-site that largely dictates the project's pace.
The crews and their bosses would probably like nothing better than to crank through the job with a few weeks of constant activity.
Utility lateral ducts (conduit from SDGE to transformer locations) are in, so it doesn't seem that any more major trenching will be necessary.
Crew very friendly, laughed and told me they'd never worked on such a highly anticipated project.
They predicted completion in mid-May.
A quick note on what may seem glacial construction progress: the work crews do not set the overall pace.
They are not on site every day. Their managers will mostly only send them to the site when there is enough work to justify sending a crew for a day or more. In between, it may seem that nothing is happening - the contractor and crews have probably gone as far as they can and will not return until some additional element has been completed by another player in the process - an inspection or permit that must be approved/completed by Tesla, a lender, the city, the county, state or utility before the next phase may proceed. The State and Federal governments are involved in these projects (rebates, subsidies etc), so there is a complicated process of control and approvals happening off-site that largely dictates the project's pace.
The crews and their bosses would probably like nothing better than to crank through the job with a few weeks of constant activity.
Benz
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San Juan Capistrano (CA) has to share that world record with Oxnard (CA) and Edison (NJ). All three were on the initial US Summer 2013 Supercharger map.
callmesam
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Except that ground wasn't broken on either Oxnard or Edison as early. So active construction has been ongoing for 6+ months.
Thanks to C10Cruiser for yesterday's thoughtful remarks. I was inspired to follow up, so I just took the photos below to augment his text. The forming for the pad concrete pour are most visible in the first photo. Something I didn't notice in the previous inspection is the conduit that is just barely visible in the lower-right corner of the smaller pad in the second photo.
A Mandrel will be run through the 12 kV power feed conduit very soon to ensure integrity...When signed off, then wire pull and transformer set can be scheduled...
http://www.inwesco.com/catalog/toolsandsupport/vaultsmanholes/conduitmandrels.htm
http://www.inwesco.com/catalog/toolsandsupport/vaultsmanholes/conduitmandrels.htm
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