Recent content by DrillbabyDrill

Well the fourth bar dropped for me at around 43.42 C. I guess I'll get the replacement done sooner rather than later.

Thanks for the advices. I'll fire up the old car and drive the Leaf more sparingly until summer hits. I was so nice to this battery. I always charged to 80% (until I needed the range), kept the car out of sunlight while charging. Covered garage at work and at home. No quick charges it until it...

I have no intention of going past the warranty miles before five years or cutting it too close. The question is whether to stop driving it NOW or stop driving it 60-k minus 1000 miles or something like that. I have a 2011, with the 3.6kw charger. What is the benefit of charging below 100%? Do...

Currently I switched to the strategy of only driving the car to work and back, and using the wife's car for extra trips/weekends. But this will get me to June, given the miles to work. That's why I asked about the second (really third) car option. I don't have the option to only drive x # miles...

Seeking your advice. Location: Austin, Texas Miles: 56900 Bars: 9 LeafDD "C" (Ahr) = 43.49 GIDS full charge = 181 5 year warranty is up in the fall. I will reach 60k long before then (May or June) if I keep driving it like I do. The question is, should I keep driving it , or should I park it...

Dang. A few months later and my max Ahr after a full charge is around 41.5 or so and my C has dipped just below 44 (as reported by Leaf DD) . I'm STILL at 9 capacity bars. I'll reach 55000 miles this week so I've still got a bit to go, and have 10 months until the 5 years runs out. I have...

What does LeafSpy actually report? Does it estimate the full capacity as LeadDD does with "C" or does it just tell you what the capacity is at "100%" charge, which is never really 100%. For example, my LeadDD reports C=45.19 and around 42.5 Ahr at "full" charge. Which number am I looking at to...

Sweeeeet I had no idea, I guess I should have looked! Yes I will take it to dealer, thank you!

My portable, included-with-car, 110v charging cable throws any breaker I put it on (I tried three different locations, so it's not the electric source, it's the plug). Has anyone experienced this? Can it be fixed? My father in law is a retired EE I was thinking of sending it to him. He tinkers...

That does sound like my behavior... hmmm. So you suggest charging to 100% a few times. I've done it probably once in the past two weeks, and usually I charge the car when I get to work (to 80%) and it sits for 3 or 4 hours before I drive it again. Is that bad?

I don't know when this started happening- only when I noticed it- within the past month during cold (30 degree) weather. That is, I don't have full regen bars even when only half charged. I first thought it might be some cold weather related behavior of the car to protect the car (are fast...

I know there are a bunch available in Austin, Texas if anyone needs one. PM me if you do and I get get referral credit.

Seriously though, what does it take to change the transformer from the pole if you need 480v? Do commercial buildings already have this type of voltage setup? If not, it seems like that would be an added expense.

I've been wanting to post on this to see what people though of it. It actually happened a few weeks ago after I just go the car. I was charging at work. I plugged in, the car was on an "all day timer" to 80%. The charging lights did their thing as well as the beep series, as normal. I get...

OK- so the holding in the button to set the air intake to default doesn't work. Or at least, it doesn't set it so that when you turn on or off the climate control, it defaults to that position. The manual isn't really clear on what exactly it is supposed to do. And where in the manual does...