Re: [EVDL] OT: batteries for solar PV off-grid

We've been using a battery based system since 1977, first using a 1930s vintage wind turbine, then a 1940s Jacobs, and started adding PVs to the energy production mix around 1981, as an off grid system. We then moved in 1989 to a place with an existing grid connection and added our wind/PV

Re: [EVDL] OT: batteries for solar PV off-grid

what you use for heat in the winter? Thanks Bob -Original Message- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of jim via EV Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:22 AM To: ev@lists.evdl.org Subject: Re: [EVDL] OT: batteries for solar PV off-grid We've been using a battery based

Re: [EVDL] EV Demand Response - (now Home solar)

The supposed national average home electrical use is about 900 to 1000 kwhrs/month, depending on the source of the info. We live in an old farm house in Wisconsin (where we have been having high temps of below zero or the low single digits for the past week).  We have less than 5kw of PVs

Re: [EVDL] postal delivery

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[EVDL] charger pinout

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Re: [EVDL] Heat pump vs resistive Heater (never buy another AC unit)

Cor van de Water said (in part): > I have always been amazed by how most of USA has forced air blowing > around through their house, which I find > rather uncomfortable. I am from Europe, where you have radiators under > windows that are warmed with > warm water and air in the room naturally

Re: [EVDL] How the US generates electricity

"The interesting thing about this carbon brief map is that my 5kw array is not listed. " I just looked at the map and I noticed that at least for Wisconsin (my home) and Minnesota, there is a yellow dot near the center of the state that represents the installations under 1 MW.  I think that for

Re: [EVDL] Weird DC-DC problem

Yes, part of that does sound like a REALLY trashed 12V battery. The other part is a guess that when the Zilla draws a lot of power, the HV battery pack is sagging enough that the power supply is at least partially shutting down. What is the power supply and what is the power that it's getting

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: (ice) Experts say there's no need for a 750mi EV-range sweet spot

Apparently you can't comprehend that someone may want / need to drive 600 - 1250 miles in a day - where even Tesla SuperCharger charge times would substantially add to the length of day. Or drive 100 miles of hard off road (which eats gas FAR faster than highway) while carrying a ton or more

Re: [EVDL] No, electric cars (still) aren't crashing the grid. Again: Good News: EVs Are Not ...

Michael Ross said (in part): > The grid is a super storage medium. If we were more interconnected worldwide, then a series of large solar arrays could do it all. You just need enough of them facing the sun at any given time and then batteries can take their better place as mobile storage. This

Re: [EVDL] Smearing with coal (again)

Absolutely. At least around here, the renewable sourced electricity goes into the system regardless. It is not a controllable source (other than opening breakers - which does not happen). And at the wholesale level, the utilities pay a very high price for that power. Here is a very

Re: [EVDL] Smearing with coal (again)

Bob said )in part): > The California Survey back in 2012 or so showed that 45% of all EV owners charged from clean energy. A 2016 Survey by Ford showed that 85% of all EV owners charged from clean solar or subscribed for 100% renewables from their grid, or would when it was offered. That is

Re: [EVDL] No, electric cars (still) aren't crashing the grid. Again: Good News: EVs Are Not ...

Bob Bruninga said (in part): > With solar, day will become the new night, with the cheapest energy available during the day. Already is in California. Where are you getting that? That is certainly not true. Demand is still highest during the day (or with the current weather that results in

Re: [EVDL] No, electric cars (still) aren't crashing the grid. Again: Good News: EVs Are Not ...

Bob Bruninga said (in part): > Thanks for the LIVE California load page. That page today shows the famous Duck's back curve that is developing in California. Yes, today (in winter), the curve still has the demand higher during the day than at night. But that same curve during the spring and

Re: [EVDL] Good News: EVs Are Not Crashing the Grid

Mark Abramowitz said (in part): > There have been *serious* problems as new technologies have drawn from the > grid and increased useage. > As plasma and other big screen TVs got big, various parts of my city had > serious issues with power outages, as the system wasn't designed for those >

Re: [EVDL] more: EVcrash Tesla-X ... Mt_View-CA (v)

Category 3 Instrument Landing Systems and approaches are are full AutoLand and have been around for decades. Requires special equipment in the aircraft and special pilot certification. 73 - Jim Walls - K6CCC j...@k6ccc.org Commercial Pilot Airplane Single Engine Land Instrument Airplane

Re: [EVDL] 500 mile range Legway

I can assure you that I would NOT want to pedal 500 miles on that. Heck, I'm pretty sure I would not want to pedal 500 feet on that! 73 - Jim Walls - K6CCC j...@k6ccc.org -Original Message- From: "Lawrence Rhodes via EV" Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 09:35

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: The physics of slapping solar panels on cars

Mark Abramowitz said: > Most people I know don’t have multiple cars for multiple purposes, unless > they are > wealthy. > Most do have a “one car fits all”. Amen to that. I really need three cars, but drive one that is not idea for the majority of my driving, but required for some of it. I

Re: [EVDL] Easy to hard solar charging.

That likely comes from a difference in the trailers. Although this is not EV related, let me cite two examples. Growing up, my parents had a small RV trailer and also a ski boat. The boat on its trailer weighed about 40% more than the RV trailer. Towing the RV trailer had a MASSIVE impact

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Toyota dealers say there is no sale$ demand.us forEVs

On the last points, you are largely wrong. To most of the people on this list, delivering a half megawatt to a really fast charger seems like a large amount of power. To your electric utility, that is a trivial amount of power. That's only a few amps on a 12KV distribution circuit. The

Re: [EVDL] tesla to close stores, sell online only

Here's my two cents on the subject of no dealers. And I completely agree with the description of car dealers as sharks. This is likely considered an upper middle class neighborhood and we drove into the lots in a brand new Nissan Rogue (the rental she had after the accident). We were dressed

Re: [EVDL] tesla to close stores, sell online only

First, I said (in part): > there is no way I would buy any car without having driven on. Then David Roden replied (in part): > At one time I would have heartily agreed with this sentiment. But after almost 5 decades of driving more different vehicles (owned, borrowed, rented) than I can

Re: [EVDL] BEV sales since 2012

Cool! Jim Walls -Original Message- From: "Mark Abramowitz via EV" Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 09:18 To: ev@lists.evdl.org Cc: "Mark Abramowitz" Subject: [EVDL] BEV sales since 2012 Very cool video showing BEV sales since 2012.

Re: [EVDL] Road Trips: plugin vs EV cost per mile (4 cents average)

Bob said (in part): > For a pure EV. Yes, they pay 28 cents per kwh for that 13% of the time, > but all the rest of the time they pay very reduced rates overnight. Our > utility offers EV charging overnight at 3 cents per kWh. That's almost > TEN TIMES cheaper than when they charge on the road.

Re: [EVDL] Does anyone really think Tesla can last?

AMEN to that! Very well said. Except that I would love to buy a Tesla, but not in the budget. Jim Walls -Original Message- From: EVDL Administrator I doubt that I'll ever buy a Tesla, for my own personal reasons, but I have a huge amount of respect for Elon Musk, Tesla, Tesla's

Re: [EVDL] Solar off grid with an EV?

Microinverters that are currentlly available require grid tie to function, or some source of good AC to feed into.  My garage and shop system is off grid and charges the Leaf in addition to running other stuff, but it has a seperate 1500 amp hour 24 volt battery that is charged by solar and

[EVDL] Solar charging an EV

I charge my Volts for what I consider nothing. Here in Phoenix on APS, (one of our 2 power Companies), I charge my 2 Chevy Volts during the day.. with my solar equipped house. Because I purchased and installed my solar before September of 2017, I am grandfathered for 20 years at the rate plan

[EVDL] Jacobs wind turbine charging 48volts---was: NMC /w zero volts

A 32 volt 1940s vintage Jacobs generator will work fine charging a 48 volt battery.  It will produce the same maximum amperage at the 60 volts to fully charge a 48 volt battery as it produces at 40+ volts to charg a 32 vollt battery.  Among us Jacobs users, it is very common to use a 32 volt

Re: [EVDL] OT: Wind boost converters

The 1800 watt Jacobs didn't make more power than the 2500 or 2800 models.  They all had the same blade and governor assembly (which may have been either flyball or blade controlled) so they put out the same power in the same windspeed up to a point, but the 1800 was a shorter machine (length of

Re: [EVDL] Public station, private ownership?

Locally (Menomonie, WI, about an hour east of St Paul, MN) our food co-op and an electric car owner/investor are hoping to install two level 2 and a 75kW level 3 charging stations at the co-op storefront location.  They are figuring on about $50,000 by the time it is functional (most of the

Re: [EVDL] Don't be a pathetic charge-mooching-thief> (get towed)

I did a similar when my sidewalk was replaced a decade or so ago. Not for EV charging however. I ran two 3/4" water pipes for sprinklers for the grass in the parking strip, and two 3/4" electrical conduits for lighting. I just capped them at each end for future use. The water ones may not

Re: [EVDL] LiFePO4 Thermal Imaging Opinions?

> A close-up of the cell, looking from the front of the pack. It's been > photoshopped to blend the IR image with the visible image to provide some > perspective of the actual appearance: > > http://www.westlanetv.org/~sharkey/evgfx/Hot_Cell_2.jpg Carefully check the connection on that cell

Re: [EVDL] LiFePO4 Thermal Imaging Opinions?

that the IR image also shows heat emanating vertically, appearing to be relatively uniform ? Peri -- Original Message -- From: "jim--- via EV" To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc: "j...@k6ccc.org" Sent: 01-Oct-19 10:36:24 AM Subject: Re: [EVDL] L

Re: [EVDL] leaf milage life

The mileage you could expect would depend a lot on how it was charged and what climate it was used in.  Nisssan changed some battery chemistry, I believe, in 2013, so a 2011 would be even more susceptible to damage to the battery than later vehicles.  If the car is running,  Leafspy should

[EVDL] Subject: Differential issue

Subject: [EVDL] Differential issue >>Hi All,Our 1995 Solectria E10 (converted Chevy S10) has a failing differential. >This car has a very high ratio in the differential. Something like ~8:1. >Most ICE vehicles have ~3:1 or 4:1. > >The gears may prove difficult to replace. I would start by

Re: [EVDL] Sunday, Sunday, Sunday> 2020 Mach-E EV reservations for 2021 deliveries

David said (in part): > I know they make more profit with vehicles like this, but I sure wish the > automakers weren't so single-minded about what they build. So many SUVs > and crossovers! The sell them because that's what A LOT of people want. People want a larger vehicle that can carry a

Re: [EVDL] Paine> auto industry's collective EV-ambivalence, w/o-oil movie

Gail Lucas said (in part): > EPA site, Alternative Fuels Data Center, Fueling Station Locator: > Hydrogen - 45 sites in US and Canada > Electric - 28,344 sites in US and Canada And that last number is going up damn near daily. We just added four EV charging spots in the public part of the city of

Re: [EVDL] LiFePO4 Thermal Imaging Opinions?

Mr. Sharkey said (in part): > Well, it looks like this issue may have been one of my own making. > When I went to remove the cell interconnect strap, both bolts into > the cell terminals were "just snug", not tight. Apparently I got > distracted when completing the BMS card swap, and didn't

Re: [EVDL] LiFePO4 Thermal Imaging Opinions?

Mr. Sharkey said (in part): > Soft aluminum and copper make me queasy when I have to test the > threads. I played it safe and only torqued to 8 ft.lbs. Anyone know > the official torque spec on Thundersky's? No idea on the Thundersky. The large Telecomm batteries we use at work are 110 inch

Re: [EVDL] (+more) Lawrence' Leaf: lithium 12v aux battery

I have a 2013 Leaf and I found that the 12 volt battery was not keeping a charge if the car sat for more than a few days.  After lots of checking current draw, etc., I discovered that my cell phone that has Leaf Spy Pro installed was the problem.  This is an older phone that no longer has a sim

Re: [EVDL] Reed switch source

Andrew Wood asked: > Does anyone know where its possible to buy reed switches of large size > i.e where the glass tube is about the diameter of a finger? Contact > rating only needs to be low voltage/current. > Also some largeish diameter coils they could be placed in to operate them? One of

Re: [EVDL] DC charging damages EV packs (?fact or anti-EV-hype?)

The link worked just fine for me. I find that their results are astoundingly bad. Even with their "better" charging method, they claim a battery is end of life after 36 charge cycles. Excuse me! Anyone else find that not quite right? I wonder what they were doing to those poor batteries to

Re: [EVDL] leaf 2011-12 or 2113

Not all 2013 Leafs had the heat pump heat, it was optional on the basic "S" model at least through 2017.If you want the heat pump, double check that the actual car you are considering has it. Someone said:>If you really want to save money, the 2011 is probably fine for your >needs. But bear

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 91, Issue 6

We've been using small wind since around 1977, and PVs since 1981 or so.  We moved in 1989 and brought it all with us and have since installed more so we now have about 7 1/2 kw of PVs, and our 2.5kw Jacobs generator is shut off for need of a bearing replacement (only repair in 43 years).  We

Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] EVs not greener than fossil-fuel vehicles?

Bill, you better check your math. It would take a lot more than "a few square kilometers of solar panels put up to supply the entire world’s energy needs". In very rough numbers, a square kilometer of fairly high conversion rate solar panels is about 250 MegaWatts for roughly a quarter of

Re: [EVDL] opinion article on hydrogen

Peter VanDerWal said: > My 3kw solar array paid for itself years ago. It produces all of the energy > used in my house > for heating, cooling, cooking, etc. as well as 1/2 the energy used by my > vehicles. I wish. A 3 KW solar array would hardly make a dent at my house. My about 9 KW array

Re: [EVDL] All-Electric Car Energy Consumption (EPA) Compared – May 2019

Should I even ask what the Ford Lightning is going to come out to? I could not find enough published specs to even calculate it. Jim -Original Message- From: "Mark Hanson via EV" Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 11:18 To: ev@lists.evdl.org Cc: "Mark Hanson" Subject: [EVDL] All-Electric

Re: [EVDL] small UPS

From: "Peri Hartman via EV" > The unit I bought is rated for 900w and 1500VA. The specs don't list the > Wh but, again, my guess is around 100Wh. That seems a pretty small battery for a 1500VA UPS Very commonly those use two 7A 12V sealed Gel Cells in series. > The idea of hacking the unit

Re: [EVDL] small UPS

Original Message- From: "Peri Hartman via EV" > Hmm. Well, yes, there are two batteries in it but I can't tell the Ah. > I'll find out soon, when the power goes off :) > You seem reasonably confident that the charger won't overload, it will > just take longer. My concern is that it

Re: [EVDL] J1772 vs Nema flat blade insertion cycles for EV charging

I like your quote today! Very good - and so true! 73 - Jim Walls - K6CCC j...@k6ccc.org -Original Message- From: Lee Hart's quote for today: -- All children are born engineers. Watch them at play. They're not just playing; they're experimenting, building and learning. That's

Re: [EVDL] Apartment dwellers, was: Your mail may arrive by EV - or it may not

Peter VanDerWal said (in part): > I think this is more of a distraction than a significant issue. I'd be > willing to bet > that the majority of "appartment dwellers" don't even own a gas power vehicle > at this point. > In many large cities, the majority of people don't have a place to park

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: NHTSA to investigate Tesla / Emergency Vehicle Crashes

> The US government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla´s driver- > assistance system known as Autopilot after a series of collisions with > parked emergency vehicles. Whether there is an issue that makes it more likely for a Tesla on AutoPilot to drive into emergency lights, I wonder

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Electric Eel - partway there

Interesting concept. The Cessna Skymaster - which this obviously is a modification of, is one of very few twin engine airplanes that has both engines on the centerline of the aircraft. That makes it far easier to fly if an engine fails. That makes it an ideal candidate for this type of

Re: [EVDL] LIVE stream 8/31/21 1540 PST A physicist consultant to power utilities on how the EV mass adoption is affecting the

From: "Peri Hartman via EV" > Michael, I don't follow you. If, for example, southern cali has excess > PV generation, it will need to ship that energy somewhere pretty far > away, say oregon or washington. That would require a pretty substantial > transmission line. I don't think the existing

Re: [EVDL] hydrogen isn't green, after all

Mark Abramowitz said in small part: > Granted, because of the limited infrastructure currently, those consumers in > the US for > whom it would work fine is very small. In California, much less so. Guess again. You keep talking about how much infrastructure there is in California - and the

Re: [EVDL] electric riding mowers? =Ryobi variable speed?

A good friend has a Ryobi electric riding mower and his wife has been using it for over 3 years.  Battery capacity is noticeably less than when new (but she mows until the machine slows down considerably).  They don't like the "cruise control" on their hilly yard as there is no regenerative

Re: [EVDL] hydrogen isn't green, after all

With all this discussion about hydrogen for fuel, there is a front page article in the 19 August Los Angeles Times about using hydrogen as vehicle fuel. Even here in southern California, it paints a fairly dismal picture - mostly because of the almost total lack of fuel availability. I am a

Re: [EVDL] LIVE stream 8/31/21 1540 PST A physicist consultant to power utilities on how the EV mass adoption is affecting the

From: "Jan Steinman via EV" > The Pacific Intertie is a 600,000 volt DC line that stretches from Washingon > to SoCal. > I think it can handle enough power for a minor city. As I said in an earlier post, the DC Pacific Intertie is actually one megavolt and goes from Celilo Oregon (near

Re: [EVDL] Electric Trains

Google is your friend... The three-rail O gauge toy trains sold in the United States are intended to run on approximately 5 to 20 volts of 60-cycle alternating current (AC). Jim - K6CCC -Original Message- From: "Robert Bruninga via EV" Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 11:54

Re: [EVDL] CPUC meeting via the web. Concerning expensive fees to kill solar.

The fees are not the big issue - it's the killing net metering part. I'm with you however, if they kill net metering, I will largely turn off my solar. Jim -Original Message- From: "Lawrence Rhodes via EV" Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:00 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion

Re: [EVDL] What type of magic is this nut and where to get a tool for it?

> On Tue Nov 16 02:29:30 PST 2021 ev@lists.evdl.org said: > >Here two pics of the battery box with the weird half-dome nuts on the > >cell interconnects: > >https://flic.kr/p/2mK3nUh > >https://flic.kr/p/2mKc155 Why on earth would someone use such a high security nut on a vehicle battery? Maybe

Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] CPUC meeting via the web. Concerning expensive fees to kill solar.

The file location you posted is on your hard drive. Not available to us. And I can't find anything on the agenda related to solar. Jim -Original Message- From: "Lawrence Rhodes via EV" Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:44 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc: "Lawrence

Re: [EVDL] CPUC meeting via the web. Concerning expensive fees to kill solar.

web. Concerning expensive fees to kill solar. I don’t seem to be able to find this on the agenda…can you provide a link to that or to the title of the agenda item? On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 12:10 PM jim--- via EV wrote: > > The fees are not the big issue - it's the killing net metering part. >

Re: [EVDL] Regen toll (was: Tesla Y actual wall outlet efficiency)

-Original Message- From: "paul dove via EV" > by my calculation a Falcon 9 launch produces 425 metric tonnes per launch. > there has been 3 heavy launches that produce 2683 metric tonnes. [per launch > implied from other part of message] Fails sanity check. A Falcon 9 has one

Re: [EVDL] The electric future of snowmobiling

David Roden said (in small part): > Sometimes I think that for them, the noise and stink are features, not bugs. They are out there.. I have a 30 year old son who is a "car guy" that firmly believes that real cars are LOUD! The louder the better - both engine noise and stereo. 73 - Jim

Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] Car carrier on fire abandoned in Atlantic

Unfortunately, that link requires an account to read. Jim -Original Message- From: "Lawrence Rhodes via EV" Sent: Friday, February 18, 2022 08:22 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc: "Lawrence Rhodes" Subject: Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] Car carrier on fire abandoned in Atlantic

Re: [EVDL] OT: US traffic controls (was: tesla's sneaky rolling stops)

Absolutely hate traffic circles... They work fine if there is very low traffic, but if there is lots of traffic, they are horrible... Jim Walls -Original Message- From: "Peri Hartman via EV" Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 16:12 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc: "Peri

Re: [EVDL] OT: US traffic controls (was: tesla's sneaky rolling stops)

My dislike is largely based on the fact that a traffic circle forces essentially all traffic on the left to get to the right and everyone on the right to get to the left in a very short space. Like I said, when the traffic is very light, it works fine, but with anything but light traffic, they

Re: [EVDL] Self Driving Mode, was Tesla's Sneaky Rolling

-Original Message- From: "Bill Dennis via EV" > I was driving on the I-210 outside of Los Angeles this weekend, which is > under construction. > They've shifted the lanes, but didn't do a good job of blacking out the old > lane markers. > So even as a human driver, I found it

Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] CPUC meeting via the web. Concerning expensive fees to kill solar. (j...@k6ccc.org)

January 27th meeting - not the 13th. That was the date I recalled from the LA Times article about a week ago. Jim Walls -Original Message- From: "Lawrence Rhodes via EV" Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 22:00 To: "ev@lists.evdl.org" Cc: "Lawrence Rhodes" Subject: Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA]

Re: [EVDL] Regen toll (was: Tesla Y actual wall outlet efficiency)

Yep. By a factor of around 50 or so. Depending on which orbit, the StarLink launches are as high as 60 satellites per launch. The lowest number is in the mid 40s. Jim Walls -Original Message- From: "Cal Frye via EV" Sent: Friday, January 7, 2022 12:43 To: ev@lists.evdl.org Cc:

Re: [EVDL] Test . am I still subscribed

Appears that at least you can post. Jim -Original Message- From: "Steve Clunn via EV" Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 15:00 To: ev@lists.evdl.org Cc: "Steve Clunn" Subject: [EVDL] Test . am I still subscribed -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

Re: [EVDL] Gmail warning (list business)

Similar here. I use Rackspace.com for my E-Mail hosting. Very happy with them. Jim Walls j...@k6ccc.org -Original Message- From: "Peri Hartman via EV" Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 07:37 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc: "Peri Hartman" Subject: Re: [EVDL] Gmail warning

Re: [EVDL] new battery technology moving past the labs

EV List Lackey via EV said (in small part): > If you can get it! As I see it, the infrastructure required to blast that > much power into multiple vehicles at a motorway charging stop is the big > challenge. It's not the battery's ability to accept a charge. Not hardly. Supplying a couple

Re: [EVDL] the grid needs upgrading - fast

David said: > Good luck with that. Most of our "investor owned" utilities don't have a > good track record of even keeping up with current maintenance, much less > actually planning for the future. For the most part, at least here in California, the investor owned utilities largely are not

Re: [EVDL] FLA bad cell question

Not just No, but HELL NO! Really bad idea with lots of potential complications - some of which already mentioned. Jim Walls -Original Message- From: "Barry Oppenheim via EV" Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2023 09:02 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc: "Barry Oppenheim"

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: More bad PR for Tesla

I can tell you that around the Los Angeles area, the percentage of Tesla drivers that are driving like total assholes is quite high compared to most other brands that have large numbers of cars on the road. Just my observation. Jim Walls -Original Message- From: "EV List Lackey via

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Tesla cuts 3 major departments

$3,000 is nothing. Medical costs for a major injury are FAR higher than almost any car repair. Spending $100K in the first day is not all that hard to do. Jim -Original Message- From: "paul dove via EV" Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2024 05:03 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc:

Re: [EVDL] 46 Pure EVs for sale, Teslas competition.

On 14 May 2024 at 7:18, John Lussmyer via EV wrote: >> AND still make a hefty profit on each car Then David Roden asked: > You say that like it's a good thing. Is it? Why or why not? Of course it is. Every company out there is in business to make money. Making a profit on your sales is

Re: [EVDL] OT Solar Electrical Issues (was: Adding a 14/50 EV courtesy outlet to a solar array)

When I put my solar in about five years ago, I took the "opportunity" to replace my 100A Zinsco main panel with a 200A Siemens main panel. On the new panel, the main breaker is at the bottom of the panel and the panel was marked that it was required to hook up solar to the top of the panel

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: No Apple EV

One of my standard statements: You throw money at R and stuff falls out. May not even be what you were aiming for, but stuff will fall out. Jim -Original Message- From: "Lee Hart via EV" Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:45 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc: "Lee Hart"

Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] Chart shows energy production from 2000 to today. All time high in all sectors.

Just because it's clickable, does not make it reachable publicly from the Internet. For example, this link is only reachable from my login on this laptop: file:///C:/Users/jim/Downloads/Knee%20Replacement.jpg And this one is only reachable from my local lan: http://192.168.201.11/K6CCC.org/

Re: [EVDL] Fwd: NACS to CCS Adapter - Vortex Plug - 500A, 1000V — Lectron EV

Make it similar to the "Tap" on your debit or credit card. Has to be within something less than an inch. Jim -Original Message- From: "Lawrence Winiarski via EV" Sent: Friday, May 17, 2024 15:25 To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" Cc: "Lawrence Winiarski" , "EV List Lackey"

Re: [EVDL] Fwd: NACS to CCS Adapter - Vortex Plug - 500A, 1000V — Lectron EV

Here in the US, 3 phase is pretty much everywhere except residential drops. At my house, there is 3 phase about 100 yards away. The 100 yard tap that feeds my local neighborhood is a single phase 12 KV line. If I really wanted it, my utility would bring the extra wire over the four poles,