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Just for additional giggles and grins, your electric utility definitely cares about power factor. Bad power factor "consumes" capacity in generators, transformers, and transmission lines. Your utility refers to it as "Volt Ampere Reactance" of VARs. For the most part the electric system load...

Following this as well. You are brave.

So do inverters.

No, there is not that much loss. If it were, you would not be able to touch it because it would be massively HOT. It's a metering difference / difficulty caused by a crappy power factor. And as I pointed out earlier, it's not just the capacitive load, but the very likely seriously...

Is your breaker panel in direct sun? Remember that almost all residential breakers operate from heat. Put them in a overly hot environment and they will trip well under their rated trip current. Also some breaker panels are famous for crappy buss bar connections (Zinsco comes to mind in...

OK, let me explain this a bit. Warning, this will get technical. When dealing with Alternating Current ( AC ) power, the voltage wings back and forth many times per second - 120 times per second in each direction in the US for 60 complete cycles per second. For 120 volt AC power, that cycle...

My guess is that the power supply is a VERY non power factor corrected power supply. What that means is that the current does not follow the voltage. This is common on DC power supplies. A Real or True RMS multimeter can handle that and correctly display the actual power. Many meters can...

Amen to that! Growing up, my parents had both a ski boat and a small RV trailer. The boat on it's trailer weighed about 2,000 pounds and the first RV trailer was about 1,500. The boat of course was fairly aerodynamic, and the RV was about like towing a billboard into the wind. The tow...

I am seeing the alerts bell count, but as soon as I read any of them, the alert notification clears completely. Minor issue for sure...

I don't remember ever seeing a "Charging" screen on the truck, but I'll see if I can remember that next time I DCFC (seldom). I will point out that almost every DCFC station I have ever used has said in the app for that charger network that it limits to either 85 or 90%.

I have no trouble charging to as much as 100% on L2 chargers (mostly my FCSP at home and a 6.6KW charger at work). But never had a DCFC go beyond 90%.

May not always be true, but I have NEVER had a Tesla SuperCharger (or EA for that matter) continue beyond 90%. That includes several charges at several locations that were less than 20% full.

That's what I love about XM. Other than live sports (Dodgers baseball), I hardly listen to FM any more...

Yea, I think you are. From my experience, I have used Plug & Charge at a couple Tesla V3 chargers, and I have used the Tesla app at both V3 and V4 chargers (in order to get the Tesla subscription price). The only time I have had an issue was the first attempt when I discovered that I needed to...

I have the FCSP, but it's total overkill for my 2024 Flash. I have zero expectation to ever use the home power integration. Had I known better after getting my truck, I would have gotten something else - Most likely the Tesla universal.

Me either.

Unfortunately you eat a big loss on the previous truck. If it were me, I would get the bigger battery - oh wait, I did... If I had the smaller battery, it would be hard to pay the price to make that upgrade. I specifically wanted the Flash to get the bigger battery and I wanted the 9.6 KW...

Thanks for all the efforts you put into keeping the site working. I know well that it is a largely thankless job and the only time have anything to say is when it's NOT working. So: Thank you!

Nice to see it back. Let's hope it will be more reliable.

I would give it a try. Can't hurt.