That is an excellent article. Thank you for sharing it. On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 7:33 PM Mr. Sharkey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > An interesting read, I'll be forwarding this to several Muskiphiles > who think that the world revolves around Elon, and who've neglected > to consider others in the Tesla sphere who actually made the > technology possible. > > Here's a link to the original article: > > https://time.com/6176778/jb-straubel-battery-problem/ > > In September of 2001, JB and I were working out a plan to caravan our > two Rabbit pushers up Interstate 5 to Woodburn for the NEDRA drags. > In the end, his schedule got so compressed, that he may not have made > the event at all. much less with his car and trailer. I ended up > hauling my pusher there behind my pickup truck after a small plasma > fire annihilated the field control relay in my EV. > > Moral of this story: Never randomly press down on contactors in your > controller circuitry when the circuits are energized! > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html > CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
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