GoodSam
Well-known member
Did not Out of Spec use a white rag on the adapter, possibly moist for evaporation to keep the connector temperature down?
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Cosmo
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We made a trip from Michigan to southern Alabama in our lightning soon after Branden made this post. I'm happy to have seen this post before we left and I want to say that my truck behaved exactly as Branden described when fast charging. In the heat we basically would charge from a low state of charge to whenever we hit a thermal limit that slowed the charging. I would just unplug and move on when this happened. I would have previously stayed and charged to 80% every time. Charging to say 50-65% while getting good charging speed just felt better than dragging on to 80% when the speeds weren't that great in the heat.
We did have one thing happen that I was curious if Branden or anyone else had happen to them while charging. We were on our way home, so the truck was in the heat and humidity from the start of the trip. We had stopped mid day(in Alabama) for our third charge of the day. Plugged in, shut off the truck, and walked over and sat down to eat while truck was doing it's thing. I don't remember exactly what state of charge I started at, but it wasn't super low. I would say in the mid 20's. All of a sudden I get a charge fault notification on my phone while the fam and I are eating. We finish eating and go back to the truck to find charging had stopped and I have red rings. I changed stalls and charging failed a second time with red rings again. It wasn't the best feeling having that happen with the fam being 10 hours from home. Anyway, the truck said it was 104 out side and it was almost pure sun and extremely humid. My adapter wasn't frozen to begin with, but wasn't hot either. This was a Tesla V3 site where this happened. Luckily I had got to 50% before the problem, so I had enough to make it to the next charger. Next charger was a Tesla V3.5 and worked fine. I chalked up the red rings to the fact that I was charging on a Tesla V3 in very hot and humid conditions in direct sun. Was just curious if anyone else ran into something like that situation?
We did have one thing happen that I was curious if Branden or anyone else had happen to them while charging. We were on our way home, so the truck was in the heat and humidity from the start of the trip. We had stopped mid day(in Alabama) for our third charge of the day. Plugged in, shut off the truck, and walked over and sat down to eat while truck was doing it's thing. I don't remember exactly what state of charge I started at, but it wasn't super low. I would say in the mid 20's. All of a sudden I get a charge fault notification on my phone while the fam and I are eating. We finish eating and go back to the truck to find charging had stopped and I have red rings. I changed stalls and charging failed a second time with red rings again. It wasn't the best feeling having that happen with the fam being 10 hours from home. Anyway, the truck said it was 104 out side and it was almost pure sun and extremely humid. My adapter wasn't frozen to begin with, but wasn't hot either. This was a Tesla V3 site where this happened. Luckily I had got to 50% before the problem, so I had enough to make it to the next charger. Next charger was a Tesla V3.5 and worked fine. I chalked up the red rings to the fact that I was charging on a Tesla V3 in very hot and humid conditions in direct sun. Was just curious if anyone else ran into something like that situation?
G$$
Member
I had the red ring charge fault while charging at Tesla superchargers earlier this year. I guessed it was the aftermarket NACS adapter that came with the truck when I bought the truck used. I have since switched to an oem Ford adapter. I have probably fast charged 5 to 10 times with the Ford adapter without any issues.
