Hi Bruce, Yep - same event, same people, same car. Just 5 mins later I took this pic https://www.flickr.com/photos/33178064@N05/11128421513/in/photostream Which brings me to the charging current: your low res pic may seem to display 38A but as you will see when you magnify the pic above, you will see that what seemed to be an '8' is really a zero with a slash. So, this charger really tops out at 12kW, in my pic is it supplying 11.7kW (390V 30A). Since I had never seen a Chademo up close at that time, I took a few more pics of the connectors and cable: 2x 2AWG + 5x 18AWG + 4x 18AWG 600V https://www.flickr.com/photos/33178064@N05/11128420493/in/photostream/ The connectors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/33178064@N05/11128311884/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/33178064@N05/11128244135/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/33178064@N05/11128273226/in/photostream/
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Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of brucedp5 via EV Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 1:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] AAA truck L3 CHAdeMO charging: Leaf Chargers [ref http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Leaf-Charge rs-tp4679887p4679930.html ] Cor's post reminded me of AAA's efforts to be an emergency quick-charge resource http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/AAA-mobile- EV-charging-level-2-amp-3-solution-td3608104.html Funny how that never really happened on a U.S. nationwide scale the way their heavy-duty PR-blitz touted. I am not sure if Cor's recounting is the same people as I experienced: At the 2013 Silicon Valley EAA NDEW Event at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA http://brucedp13.20m.com/eaasvr2013/ There were two mature eVgo representative gals that drove south in their company (NRG) Leaf EV to the EVent. I had talked to them at their eVgo table with their Leaf EV parked sideways within their EAA EVent booth space (advertising their EV efforts, etc.). They said they had come from their San Francisco NRG office to the EVent. I mentioned to them that they could get a free charge from the EAA during the EVent, but they were not interested (they were happy sitting at the table). Hours later, at the end of the EVent after they had packed up to leave, they mentioned that the Leaf EV may not have enough charge to get them back (I thought that seemed awfully odd that the NRG employees promoting EV charging, did not know enough about 80mi-EVs to keep themselves out of this type of situation/jam). It seems they left not fully charged, which made their not taking advantage of the free opportunity charge at the EVent seem even more EV-ignorant (dumb). I was lucky enough to hobble-over and grab the emergency AAA (recharge) truck guy who was yakking away at someone. At first he wanted to give me a no to his helping them (he said he wanted to leave, when really he did not want to do any more work, he was off the clock and wanted to yak at his bud ...). I was persuasive enough to sweet talk him into feeling he would be saving the day, getting to gals out of a mess, etc. I had them park their company Leaf EV in front of his AAA truck, while the AAA guy fired up the generator. The gals did not know how to open the front charging port door, so the AAA man stepped in and popped it open. He connected the AAA truck's CHAdeMO Level-3 coupler to the Leaf EV L3 port, giving a (slow) Level-3 charge to the eVgo team's Leaf EV. http://brucedp13.20m.com/cgi-bin/i/eaasvr2013/eaasvr2013-brucedp-022-l.j pg Shows the dynagen.ca genset state-of-charge (SOC) display and a charging rate of 387VDC @38A= 14.7kW He only said he usually only gives a 15 minute charge, but I made an extra extra to distract him to try to make it more of a 20 minute L3 charge. We both got waves and a thank you's from the NRG gals when they left. I wonder if they learned anything from the 80mi-EV experience, or are they always going to be the type of driver that requires a 200+mi range EV to survive? For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} - Re: [EVDL] Leaf Chargers From: Cor van de Water Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 ... It has been over 2 years since a typical SF girl came to the EV Rally at DeAnza and since she did not want to have the hassle to plug in when she arrived and did not want to wait an hour to pick up enough charge at the available L2 chargers, she called AAA to have the tow truck come to give her a charge in half an hour, since it charges at double the rate of L2. I forgot to ask how the charger generates its power, whether it has its own engine like a fancy backup generator, or that it has a PTO from the truck engine. There is no truck with less than 100kW engine power, so if it would be PTO then there is not a limit on the engine side, but maybe on the generator head and electronics. I presume however that they took a standard 12kW genny and added the electronics and cord to turn it into a Chademo station. Then it would be more of an issue with the size of the genny. - -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Leaf-Charge rs-tp4679887p4679942.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
