u/mcmoyer

I've had my inground pool since 2018. I had an above ground pool before that. Since I had battled the chlorine wars with the above ground, I told the installer that I wanted the most care free pool. I stayed with chlorine pucks, added a mineral cartridge, and a UV lamp. A few years back, I had a hard freeze and the power went out. All my equipment had drain plugs except for my UV lamp so it busted. I never replaced it because it didn't really seem to do anything. I quit chlorine pucks several years back and have been adding liquid chlorine nightly. I want to add a tank and a Stenner pump to automatically add the chlorine.

When the UV lamp busted, I just capped off the electrical connections. I'm wondering if I can repurpose that connection to run the pump a set amount of time. The UV lamp was set up to come on when the pump was on. How can I check if that's a programming thing or if it's hardwired? If hardwired, is there a fairly simple way to accomplish this? The other option is to have is to repurpose the auxiliary pump for the cleaner. I use a Dolphin robot now since it works much better than the pressure side cleaner ever did.

Traveling back from CO Springs to the DFW area yesterday, I was looking forward to a fairly quick trip compared to going up a few weeks back. Boy, was I wrong. I used both ABRP and the onboard planner to map out my route. Just 2 stops! Awesome! Both said, 17 minutes for the first stop at a 325kW Tesla charger in Amarillo and a 33 minute charge in Vernon. Also very awesome!

Reality is a much different beast though. It was perfect weather, 70's to 90's and the battery pre-heating wasn't really needed, but it kicked on both times automatically. I arrived at both stations within a few percentage points of what was predicted. The charging throughput completely stunk. Peak charge rate for both of these was around 135 to 140, but that only lasted until just before I hit 20%, then it dropped pretty precipitously down to 100kW. I don't think it's the Tesla charger doing it because the truck indicated it was only asking for a little more than the charger was providing. The 17 minute charge turned into 46. The 33 minute charge turned into 1 hour and 3 minutes.

The only good part of the trip was that I met 2 guys driving a Hummer and we were able to commiserate about the slow charging rates at the stops.

Third screen shot is from an EA charger showing that my truck with an extended range battery, is fully able to get around 300kW peak.

I am thankful that the Tesla network is open to us because there are some areas of that drive where 100kW is still the best you're going to find.

Was looking for a new EV to replace my higher mileage Tesla. Hadn't even considered an EV truck because of the outrageous MSRP on them. Found one that was a courtesy vehicle and between dealer discounts and a GM discount, I got it for over 20k off. This was my first time taking it out to the field. Was great to not even have to charge up batteries before I went. I just plugged into the back of the truck and charged at the field.