{"id":4140,"date":"2015-08-21T19:18:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:35:40","slug":"plug-bug-charger-repaired-back-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/plug-bug-charger-repaired-back-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug Bug: charger repaired; back on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The bug is rolling again! About 39,800 electric miles. I asked Manzanita Micro why it failed and what I could do to prevent it from happening again. They said it “was something in the negative side of the rectifier bridge. possibly something in the ground.\u201d \u2014 I\u2019m not sure what that exactly means. For now, I\u2019m going to limit charging the car at 20 amps. I had previously been pumping it up to the full 30 amps, hoping to get the rated 6kW of power out of it. I think that makes it have trouble\u2026but I can\u2019t say for sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a picture from today while I was charging at Apple:<\/p>\n

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I always open the hood to let the charger get some extra cooling. It tends to overheat and starts blinking its LED when I keep it shut.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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