On Jan 15 I re-visited IKEA in Covina. Location right near entrance caused many customers passing into the store to notice my car. EV-only signage at the 4 Blink stations is very prominent, unlike other IKEA locations reported in this thread, and apparently this signage was effective in warding off ICEs in the spots.
Leftmost of 4 Blink was tagged for repair. Rightmost Blink accepted by Blink rfid card, but then displayed "Failed Selt-Test" after I plugged in. I reported this failure to Blink, IKEA, and Recargo.
Since many home Blink EVSEs are having frequent failures, and now I see public Blink EVSEs with issues (2 out of 4), I really wonder how could we possibly expect good reliability from Blink L3, which is much, much more complicated ?
Has anyone tried Blink units at Wal-Mart in Corona, CA ? Judging from above experience, I need to have backup plans. Its location is attractive to me because there is a Mimi's Cafe next-door.