GPowers
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plus on on the square watermelons.
If you drop it far enough, the round one won't roll away either! :mrgreen:mwalsh said:DarkStar said:+1 for square watermelons. They fit much better in the refrigerator!
Plus they don't roll away from you when you loose your grip on them!
kmp647 said:So you had a cs100 in a year early but can't use it?
Whats up with that?
Forget about the night time rate , hook that thing back up!
KeiJidosha said:I think that’s why Nissan doesn’t want to talk about a 6.6kW upgrade. It is too integrated into the design to do profitably. Throw this thing away and buy a new one. New harness, new EMI Filter, change software, teach it how to read the pilot signal.Ingineer said:My take is that the 6.6kW upgrade would be tricky. First off, it would require 2 beefier wiring harnesses, both running the length of the car; one from the J1772 inlet to the charger (EMI filter) and one from the charger to the HV junction box. The reason is the size of these wires appears to too small to support anything larger. It might also require an upgrade to the J1772 inlet itself.
It would also require draining the cooling system and crawling under the car to disconnect the lines.
-Phil
And dealer Labor for doing all this. You'd faint when they show you the quote.
Huge mistake not to go 6.6kW fromt he start.
TEG said:I think the next update to the LEAF might have the 6.6kW charger up front so they don't have to run power wiring from the socket on the front of the car all the way to the back like that.
Anyway despite the above said:Yes, 100%. Welcome to the automotive world, if they can save a penny even if it is a huge loss to the customer it will be done. Just look at the carpet in the LEAF, I mean spray on crap. It's about cost cutting not what is logical. Besides wire to the charger there are firmware issues, etc, etc. If Nissan had smart and progressive marketing folks the would have put in a larger charger at a minimal cost and offer dealer "enabled" upgrades. A simple unlock of the firmware would have made customers and dealers ($) very happy. Many cars have features built into the cars that are not enabled. The LEAF was designed by insulated and out of touch marketing folks that likely have never driven an EV. Soon they may offer carpet and paint that is generated by a hologram.
And a gym membership would cost you how much? Might just be a blessing, count them when you have time - like while waiting for a L1 charge. :lol:TimeHorse said:Well, at this point given my current lack of at-home charging while I wait for My PU to install my new meter, thus being limited to only trickle charge plus the no-rule-against-it-but-don't situation at work I can tell you quite straight between having to wait 3 hours at a Nissan Dealership just for enough charge to get home and having to leave my car at @MOMsOrganicMrkt last night, walk home in the bitter cold carrying my groceries, including a full-sized Watermellon, an hour march to the house, then another hour march today before 6am to pick up my CO2 Fre LEAF all because I lost an hour of charging due to a GFCI fault at the ChargePoint unit meaning there wouldn't be enoug time to fill the pack sufficiently so that the remaining trickle charge at the house would fill the pack to 100% by 5am while still getting a sufficient night's sleep, all I can say is:
My LEAF needs a f#^*% 6.6kW Charger!!!
I look forward to your "modification" to allow the replacement of the existing charger with an "upgraded" one.Ingineer said:Nissan already went on public record and stated there will be zero chance of upgrading existing LEAFs to a larger capacity charger if/when they offer it. I personally heard it when the Chief Vehicle Engineer and the rest of the Nissan team was in town a few weeks ago.
DarkStar said:I look forward to your "modification" to allow the replacement of the existing charger with an "upgraded" one.Ingineer said:Nissan already went on public record and stated there will be zero chance of upgrading existing LEAFs to a larger capacity charger if/when they offer it. I personally heard it when the Chief Vehicle Engineer and the rest of the Nissan team was in town a few weeks ago.
Ingineer said:Nissan already went on public record and stated there will be zero chance of upgrading existing LEAFs to a larger capacity charger if/when they offer it. I personally heard it when the Chief Vehicle Engineer and the rest of the Nissan team was in town a few weeks ago.
-Phil
Volusiano said:I would rather see a third party 10KW charger to be put in the front under the hood.
Herm said:Volusiano said:I would rather see a third party 10KW charger to be put in the front under the hood. Then we won't need to worry about whether the existing wiring harness running to the back of the car is beefy enough or not, because there'd be a different beefy enough (and short enough) wiring harness going from the J1772 port to this new 10KW charger. Then the output of this charger can simply tap on to the CHADdeMO port wiring to deliver the charge to the battery DC style. So any wiring harness coming in or going out of this third party charger will be short and minimal.
+1000
Get busy Phil!
I guarantee Nissan designed that wire harness just for the 3.3kw charger and nothing more.. copper is too expensive to waste.
TimeHorse said:Herm said:Volusiano said:I would rather see a third party 10KW charger to be put in the front under the hood.
+1000
Get busy Phil!
I guarantee Nissan designed that wire harness just for the 3.3kw charger and nothing more.. copper is too expensive to waste.
+$1,500 if you can put a 20kW charger in there like the just-announced upgrade for the Tesla Model S whose base model is also 10kW but my EVSE, tee hee hee, can indeed do 20kW.
EVDRIVER said:TimeHorse said:Volusiano said:I would rather see a third party 10KW charger to be put in the front under the hood.
+$1,500 if you can put a 20kW charger in there like the just-announced upgrade for the Tesla Model S whose base model is also 10kW but my EVSE, tee hee hee, can indeed do 20kW.
That won't get you a 4kw charger. A charger upgrade for the LEAF is very expensive and labor intensive thanks to the thin wire Nissan used. This has been covered extensively.
To be honest, it wasn't even my idea to begin with. I think it might have been Phil's (Ingineer) idea a while back when he was tossing around the idea of installing a third party 10KW charger in the front under the hood.TimeHorse said:Context: I was talking about Volusiano's idea of using the existing CHAdeMO harness to run the current to the battery DC from a second rectifier in the bonnet of the cab connected to the J1772 plug.
EVDRIVER said:That won't get you a 4kw charger. A charger upgrade for the LEAF is very expensive and labor intensive thanks to the thin wire Nissan used. This has been covered extensively.
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