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Be VERY careful about how you ask questions of an AI. They always try to answer, and if they can't find any relevant information, they will quickly make stuff up. You always have to couch the questions in terms like, "only provide very high-confidence answers, otherwise just say that you're...

Similar situation here. I have about 3" of clearance between the roof and the garage door opener arm. And that was after I sawed off the extra length of metal that extended down further. I did have to remove the whip antenna to keep it from rubbing against the open garage door.

The weather warmed up, so I finally got around to installing the TripleAliners bed mat. The fitment is good, even with my MOLLE rack system intruding a little at the back. I'll report back in when I've had a chance to put something back there. :)

You keep assuming that the majority of the losses are ohmic (I²•R). They are not. The fixed losses by the on-board charger are much higher.

Unless you have an extremely long cable run, the fixed losses of the vehicle's on-board charger are going to dwarf the ohmic losses in the cabling. AC Charging at the fastest-available current level will minimize losses.

And that means someone could touch those unused, uncovered DC pins while charging and get a nasty 240v shock.

Try connecting the adapter to the Wall Connector first, then plugging it into the truck. Otherwise, it would be good to make sure the Wall Connector's firmware is up-to-date, and figure out why you're unable to access that configuration setting.

Whoever did an "oil change" on a Tesla shouldn't have. I assume you're referring to the gearbox. Tesla's history with gearbox fluid is interesting. For the original Model S, Tesla recommended changing the gearbox fluid after some break-in period. After that, no additional changes were...

Before that particular rumor starts spreading again, there never was a rust issue. Any time someone found rust on a Cybertruck, the cause was environmental iron contamination. Think along the lines of, very small iron particles from rail roads, etc. The "rust" cleaned right off.

Hello physics! Meet real-world engineering. :) Charging has overhead. The vehicle's on-board charger uses a fixed amount of power regardless of how many amps it's handling. That's what causes charging to be less efficient at lower power levels. As for the charging rate resulting in...

That's what killed demand. I was quite willing to buy one at the originally-announced base price of $40k. Even adjusting for Covid-caused inflation (which happened between that announced price and production), that would still be $50k-$55k. The strange thing is, used ones are holding value...

Batteries don't see "stress" from high AC charging rates. 64 amps at 240 volts is only 15kW. You need to get to 1C-2C rates before charging stress starts to happen. For a standard-range Lightning, that's 100kW-200kW. Charging at the fastest AC rate you have available gives the best charging...

Yep, I always try to check the "supporting material" links Gemini provides. I'm always a little shocked when I find nothing that supports the statement being made by Gemini. But I'm glad it provides those links so I can double-check its conclusions.

Should be an 80% duty cycle for 48 amps.

Strange that the troubleshooting section of the manual doesn't mention this. Maybe you can put out a call for an owner of one of the older Model S vehicles with dual chargers capable of charging at 80 amps to come on over and test out your wall connector?

I believe that's from the Gen 2 Wall Connector manual. We've discovered that his EVSE is actually a first-generation High Power Wall Connector.

You need to use a better AI. Here's what Gemini says:

In that case, the number of times it flashes will point you towards the problem.

How many times does it flash? Basically. The part that's missing is that the Wall Connector defaults to the SWCAN protocol. You have to wait for that to time out before it will switch to the J1772 protocol.

Oh, maybe you have a Gen1 (called the High Power Wall Connector)? https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/ms_hpwc_installation_guide.pdf Does it look like this on the inside?