rt84vhf said:
Read your blog post. Just wanted to ask about the noise and the temperature of the inverter lid. Are you saying that your inverter lid, once cooled completely after a drive, will stay that way while charging? I just checked mine after a 100 mile day, and it's fairly warm while charging on L1. My wife's is completely cold, but it's been sitting for two days.
Can you hear the normal water pump sound with the hood down? I just checked both of ours, and the noise is identical. It's very faint, but you can hear it with the hoods closed. I can definitely feel the water flow through the hoses on both.
I'm also confused. On my currently leased '13, I'm fairly certain that when charging for a few hours on level 2, the PDM cover and all the metal of the stack is quite warm to the touch. It's nowhere near hot enough to burn but noticeably warm.
I recall the same thing happens on level 1, which I almost never do anymore.
IIRC, my leased '13 Leaf was exactly the same. So, I always figured this was normal.
If there's no been charging and I've been driving for say 20 to 40 miles, yeah, the cover of the PDM stack is not warm to the touch at all.
Charging for me normally results in a very faint pump sounds and I can feel vibration and fluid movement thru the hoses.
From the graphs on thanks to Chargepoint, my car and my former leased one on 208 volt L2 EVSEs, generally pull between 5.7 to 6.0 kW, sometimes a little higher. There are a couple EVSEs that I used to use (at a building I don't work at anymore) that were always lower in output (presumably lower voltage) like 5.7 kW than ones inside that building.