By the way autopilot or FSD is an option you can buy by the month. 200
bucks. So try it...if you don't like it don't buy.
I find on road trips it's great. Worth every penny of the 200 bucks.
t
Tesla DOES make really good EVs. You can tell, because their owners seem to
love them despite
"I find it impossible to believe we would be where we are now without
Tesla and Musk.? That is why I am so bumfuzzled by negativism toward
both. "
I've got 4 friends who are either PhD's or engineers, who have an order
in for Model Y, and also some other friends, pilot, busdriver who have
"the stink of ICEs. "
I get it, but do not have the same affliction. My granddaughter says the
100% biodiesel Kubota tractor smells likerotten hamburgers!!
Personally I think it smells like french fries. Years ago, pulling my
MGBGT into a local fueling station, the person on the next
"Musk did great things for Tesla and for EVs initially, but it's past time
for him to go. If he won't go voluntarily, he should be removed from the
company. Give him a nice golden parachute (not that he needs one) and push
him out."
Strongly disagree with this sentiment, having had 3 of the
Yep. He is. And yep, he did!
tim
On 2/25/2021 4:33 AM, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote:
Actually, if Musk is as smart a businessman as he seems to think he is,
he'll get Tesla out of the US and set up shop where the market is.
--
With hope,
Tim Economu
Offgrid Systems LLC
7664 Hellman Road
Hey Peri, Still here! I'm more of a listener than a talker. Find that I
learn more that way! I've been in Power Electronics for 40 years, but
I'm a newcomer to EV's only started back around 1999, when I built my
first e-motorcycle. On my fifth EV now, not including ebikes, and will
never go
Hi Cal,
If someone from Puget Sound Solar can pipe up, they can corroborate this
for me, but I believe hearing that they (PSS) had been very busy
repairing and eventually replacing a lot of the early Blink EVSE in the
Puget Sound area. I know from personal experience, the Blink units on
I like the driveability quotient and how you got there. Driveability is
a far different thing to me (has more to do with the *way* the car
drives and handles), so I might call it DCR or drive charge ratio, or
Deecer for the acronym phobic.
And I would like to see another term thrown in, since
Oh yeah forgot the company I cofounded! Magnum Energy makes product here
in the USA.
t
--
Kind regards,
Tim Economu
Offgrid Systems LLC
On 9/18/2020 1:08 PM, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote:
Sunpower is the only US maker of PV panels that I can think of.
Enphase makes grid-tie inverters,
"I couldn't name a single U.S producer of PV
modules, and the BOS equipment is mostly assembled in China as well."
Only one of the best PV modules in the world. Silfab, Bellingham Wa, USA
and Ontario (I think) Canada. Now shipping 330W monocrystaline at .50/W
available all day from Platt
aGREE 100% Jan.
Yeah I was one of the folks involved with BP going 'green' back in the
late 90's. A fellow engineer and I designed a grid-tie inverter that BP
decided to pick up for some of their gas stations. They were called "BP
Connect" stations and they had solar on the fueling island
Anytime you want a 100A circuit (or larger) for your house or
outbuilding. Pretty common actually, since every house and most
buildings have a service entrance.
Tim E.
On 8/27/2020 1:08 PM, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote:
> Check the NEC if you wanna do it for your house
Section 310.4 of
Hey Lawrence,
Your example reminds me of a good rule of thumb with wire. The rule of
3. Parallel any two wires of the same gauge and you drop 3 gauges. So
two 10's go to AWG 7, and so forth. It's very helpful in winding
transformers and motors, but you can get into trouble in some cases in
Well the Solaredge HD wave (and the previous model) use a fixed input
voltage at a nominal 380VDC, with a 480VDC max. There is no MPPT, since
that is done off-board in their optimizers, that sit behind the PV
modules. So you might be able to connect a nominal 380V battery pack to
the solar and
Yeah but the problem with the Route de Sol Van is that right now it's
stuck in Mexico, having gone from Alaska, south through Canada, and the
continental US. They hit some high winds and it tore the solar panels
off and did a lot of damage. And the panels are their primary source of
energy.
Hey Larry, I think that was me. I did car/house/solar+storage and we are
about 95% net zero on an annualized basis. I am installing a little more
solar and converting my diesel tractor to get to 100%. The upfront cost
is there but now the savings are big. Low fuel and maintenance costs for
the
w bits/min, but the point is that it IS doable.
It requires a different mindset than just straight digital
manipulation. You accept error rates and deal with them using math.
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 9:58:47 PM PDT, Offgrid Systems via EV
wrote:
Yeah I'm gonna agree with Lee here.
Yeah I'm gonna agree with Lee here. I've been thinking about this for
years also, going as far as testing some ac powerline comm chips adapted
to DC power busses. I found it's impossible with all the noise coming
from the drive on an EV. But Lee, you don't even need a spectrum
analyser, just
On 4/28/2020 10:25 AM, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote:
"https://github.com/offgridsystems (github resource repository)
Tim Economu's qualifications and background are impeccable, you couldn't ask
for a better collaborator on a project like this.
"
Hello all,
Just wanted to respond to a
Hi Peri,
I've designed an open source BMS and cell packaging system, if you don't
want to design your own.
You need to source some pretty amazing lithium ion cells for that 53C
discharge rate! I think you might end up with a larger battery to get
that big C rate.
Anyway it's free to use
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