03-23-2021, 06:41 PM | #151 |
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Ha! These Land Rovers kind of get under your skin don’t they. It’s everything I said I never wanted in a vehicke: heavy, luxury SUV with an automatic and yet it’s my favorite car I’ve owned overall. Maybe I just need to bite the bullet and plan to keep it around Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
03-23-2021, 09:28 PM | #152 | |
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Tesla now sells the 3rd Gen wall connector. Still supports power sharing, but each must be on its own breaker and branch circuit, although that may still be pending a firmware update. More info here (includes a link to the manual): https://www.tesla.com/support/instal...ector#firmware The 100A circuit may be able to feed a sub panel. Also, the 3rd Gen wall connectors individually max out with a 60A breaker - which is what we have. Allows 240V 48A continuous draw, which charges both the 3 and Y at 44 miles per hour...
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03-23-2021, 09:32 PM | #153 |
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Ah, thanks. Yes I definitely have not been paying attention.
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03-23-2021, 09:33 PM | #154 |
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Also I don’t really get how they support power sharing if they have to be on their own circuit?
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Gen3 has wifi, so you no longer have to run a control wire between the wall connectors. Not much of a concern for us - we only put in 1 charger. We thought about adding another or a 14-50 to the 2nd garage, but we figure we’ll just trade off using the charger...
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03-23-2021, 09:57 PM | #156 |
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The lack of a control wire seems...not a big deal given all the other wires you need to run.
And the change to an 18’ cable would frankly be a deal breaker for me. The 24’ cable I’ve got now is barely long enough to be comfortable. At some point if I don’t sell this dumb house first I’m going to have to run a 240v circuit to my front yard so I can charge a car up there, too. At that point I guess I’ll downgrade the existing connection to a 60 amp and run a 40 up there. |
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On the control wire, I think that got messy in commercial situations with more than 2 wall connectors. I think one unit was the primary and had to be connected to each other unit. Did not daisy chain...
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03-24-2021, 01:48 PM | #158 |
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Just when I think I'm starting to understand EV terminology... what is a "control wire"? (kind of afraid to ask lol)
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03-24-2021, 01:51 PM | #159 |
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It's what Tesla was using to allow their wall units to communicate with one another; they've now gone to WiFi (though apparently that's still vaporware). It's not really relevant to the Taycan.
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04-06-2021, 01:35 PM | #160 |
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Another positive review of the base model. Also, the first one i've seen that's on steel suspension:
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