Recent content by wsbca

Hi, We had one of the first Leafs in SoCal (vin < 300) and it served us well for 7 years, but we didn't lose our bars soon enough to get a new battery and we need a bit more range, so it has moved on via Carmax to be replaced by a Bolt -hopefuly someone will get a great deal either on a short...

There are some nifty garage door openers on the market now (wifi enabled, don't need a separate system to see if you left the door open, apparently much quieter belt drive vs. screw). One in particular, Chamberlain Model # HD950WF (1.25HP, belt drive, WIFI etc. etc.) has various comments in...

I think this is correct, so personally (6 years into our 20 year grandfathering window for NEM), by the time we have to pay for gross grid power, we will hopefully be retired and can probably shift much of our charging to align with our PV generation, minimizing that hit. But it is a drag for...

There are square crimps. That was one part I could not properly replicate when I did mine with the Leviton replacement cable (and I think it may be somewhat important, in the early days of the EV Project, techs went out to "recrimp" all units and I think this might have been the spot)...

If it's the cable, and specifically the pilot wire in the cable, a replacement cable from Amazon is a fairly straightforward fix - I did this myself recently, only significant cost was the $170 for the cable.. See: http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=20693&p=439681#p439681 and...

Exact same problem with mine a couple of months ago. I agree that it's probably the pilot wire. We had a short period of intermittent function including a couple of very incriminating instances where nudging the charge cable on the ground caused it to kick in. Then it finally failed for...

I bought the LYL® WIFI Wirless OBD2 Car Diagnostic Reader a long time ago, and never got around to doing anything with it. I have an iphone (two actually, both iphone 4's but one is running IOS6 and one is running IOS7...and an iPad running IOS8) Haven't purchased any Apps yet. I'd like to...

Similar situation here - 2011 with 2 bars gone, only 35K miles but we're 4 months out from our 5 year mark, doubt we are going to lose 2 more bars before January. When the time comes we'd love a Tesla, but If it's really the case that we can get a compatible, brand new LEAF battery for $5K at...

Last activity on this thread is from over a year ago, but I'll take a shot - [email protected] still has an autoresponder, but does anyone know if they are really following up anymore? Our main cable to the J1772 connector seems to be shot - intermittent failures for a few weeks, now it...

The bars that disappear while driving and reappear when you charge are the state of charge bars, there will always be 12 at full charge. The capacity bars are the little short ones to the right of those, and are the ones relevant to the battery degradation warranty. How many of those...

I know people have successfully used KillAWatts with the L1 EVSE (I did it myself) to determine the draw of the unit, but they can run hot under the continuous load of charging (1440 watts or so) and some folks have fried their KAWs (hopefully no fires)...I would not recommend it for continuous...

All you really need to do is figure out how many miles you have driven - do you know the odometer reading from when you started renting the car? Conservatively, you are probably getting at least 3 miles per kilowatt hour drawn from the wall. Divide your total miles driven by 3, and...

Sorry this is after the fact, I think it's over: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2s7obx/im_the_ceo_of_renault_and_nissan_and_were_making/

It's the dead of winter - sun angle is too low. As a point of reference, my 3.4kwDC rated (2.99AC, 3kw inverter) panels, which face WSW at a fairly typical roof angle topped out at a lowly 2200 W today, also in San Diego. Pretty similar percentage to what you are seeing. In May-June...

This prediction seems a little misleading to me - though his inverter will indeed likely clip at some point in the middle of the day in summer months (unless it's hot), his total daily production will definitely be highest in those months, which is what I think he's really concerned about. And...