Putting a Wet Towel on a Tesla Supercharger Handle Gets Faster Charging Speeds
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But for some reason this is widely misunderstood, resulting in frequent errors and poor decision making. The Times, a generally-reputable UK newspaper, once published a front page headline declaring that electric vehicles would require the equivalent of 20 new nuclear plants to be built in the UK. None of their fact checkers noticed that the entire article was based on an error that confused GWh (energy) with GW (power).
> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Unfortunately there is no report button.
But most people have no idea about the senor(s) in tesla charger plugs, since it's a plug, not an alarm. How should it be obvious for the average layman without open disclaimers? People always tend to fuck with stuff they don't fully understand if someone tells them that doing something quirky means extra oomph.
And forget about people putting towels on it, what about rain or wet debris falling on it? Seems like edge cases that should have been covered during the concept and design phase by EEs with experience. For something meant to survive and be used outdoor these are not even edge cases.
I assume the down votes are from people assuming you agree with, or take part in "because everyone else does so why shouldn't I", that mentality.
Of not, then you might want to clarify. Otherwise, I'm glad that in all likelyhood we'll never meet in real life.
Did that not have the intended effect of stating that's how I feel other people think?
To others, apparently not.
I have the same problem occasionally.
However, it does raise the question if a shaded plugin spot, or rain could also present a similar fire hazard.
The user might "life-hack" the cable into acting like a fuse with it in the handle, having it halfway down the cable risks complications like that portion of the cable lying in a puddle etc.
With good enough coverage, if they can all be kept cool, the cable likely is as well.
All quite interesting.
Both of these bits are constituent parts of the greater assembly commonly called a "charging cable," which includes [at least] both wire and connectors, and sometimes a handle.
If you don't believe me, wipe your computer down with a wet towel. Still works right?
Now submerge it, even briefly, and observe its functioning.
You could write the same comment about it being nothing like dripping or spraying water ('If you don't believe me ... Now blast a hose at it') which was my point.
Yes, but you also said it was more than rainfall. A towel is so overly shallow that it becomes less than rain.
> Any porous material would be a lot more resistant to rain than the wet towel, for example.
That doesn't sound right to me. Rain will stick around in spots, and those spots will be wetter than under a towel.
It has to be more in some way for your argument to make logical sense.
Or was I unclear that I meant "more in some situations than rain ever is". If that's it, then sorry, my bad.
(Disclaimer: I don't work for Tesla, and did not design the supercharger cabling, this is educated speculation).
Probably a market for setups that have water cooling jackets.