{"id":2717,"date":"2012-04-20T21:39:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T05:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/plug-bug-burnt-plugs\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T21:39:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T05:39:22","slug":"plug-bug-burnt-plugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/plug-bug-burnt-plugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug Bug: Burnt plugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>I have nearly 15,000 miles on my little electric car. I haven&#8217;t had to do much maintenance lately; the car has been running pretty well. I did a check on the front brake pads; the original set wore out really fast (like 7 or 8k miles), and I&#8217;m happy to see that the new ceramic pads are wearing away a lot slower than the original ones.<\/p>\n<p>I did have some trouble recently at about 14,600 miles. The inlet plug seems to have had some extra resistance and was melting! The LS-30 inlet isn&#8217;t all that secure, and I think the loose locking connection would sometimes arc when I turn off the power with my wall timer.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I caught it before it caught on fire, but it is pretty concerning that it was melting to this point. I also realized all my other plugs had some melting signs, so I had to replace them all (about $110!). I&#8217;m looking into not using the LS-30 anymore and instead use the J1772 plug, and modify my adapter box to turn quickly the charger off when the thing is unplugged to prevent arcing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7919.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7919-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_7919.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7920-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_7920.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7921.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7921-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_7921.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have nearly 15,000 miles on my little electric car. I haven&#8217;t had to do much maintenance lately; the car has been running pretty well. I did a check on the front brake pads; the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/plug-bug-burnt-plugs\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-bug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_7921.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}