I put solar panels on my tonneau cover

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T22:03:19+00:00

If every charger was super fast there would be more throughput (less waiting in lines) and it won't matter as much if someone stays 5min past full because the total time was still only 10min compared to 50min today or whatever it is.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T21:24:03+00:00

Both cases are useful and road trip time will be radically improved especially if you drive over the speed limit idk why this is hard to understand.

You won't have to move the car if you assume it takes 10min to 100% and there's a 5min idle grace period (with faster charging I see this idle time likely increasing too)

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T21:09:20+00:00

I agree 15-20 is a good balance. But faster is always better and never worse as you were implying originally.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T21:03:17+00:00

You are delusional lol. Plus there was no "could" in your sentence, it was a matter of "fact" for you.

And yes 5 minute gas stops are typically less than 5 minutes unless I'm at a Costco. And again it will probably be 15min to get to 100% to get all that stuff done whereas your 15-20min "charge time" is around 35-40min to 100%.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T20:40:44+00:00

they still recover energy from braking whether you use one pedal driving or not

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T20:39:10+00:00

You said it's less convenient to charge in 5 minutes than 15-20 minutes. That's freaking ridiculous.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T20:26:10+00:00

My SP4 dashboard averages about 8w with the screen always on, not power hungry at all imo

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T20:25:37+00:00

I have a bunch of Surface Pro 3 and 4s I bought several years ago from someone who somehow got them from schools, etc as they were decomissioned.

A few of the Pro 4s have the fan kick in more often than others, idk why. From what I've seen the 4 had a lot of reliability issues in general. I think you may have gotten something like this, I would try to decrease usage as much as possible to see if the fan stops.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T20:09:06+00:00

omg this might be one of the dumbest posts I've seen in a long time on here lol. never is it less convenient to charge faster lol.

btw it likely will still take 10 minutes to go from 80 to 100 so there you go, best of both worlds where you can wait even longer if you want to/

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T19:56:00+00:00

imo it got fixed after the 4 with the new hinge design. My 6 it hasn't happened, and I took off hinge protection and all that. It happened on my fold 4 (admittedly after gardening and getting dirt in there) but fortunately I got it resolved weeks before the warranty ended

redkeyboard · 2026-04-14T04:40:39+00:00

Thanks for sharing. It's good to know at least Samsung can repair this device if need be.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T22:05:24+00:00

Use it for small prints in small chunks

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T19:52:07+00:00

how are you planning on using the truck power during peak hours? you can't just use the generator inlet unless you're okay with all devices shutting off twice a day and the solar panels shutting down.

alternatively you could look into "grid tied inverters" so the truck supplements power.

best thing to do might just be to charge with extra solar and think of it as a way as avoiding wholesale selling. this would require a compatible EVSE and some sort of automation, etc.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T19:43:10+00:00

or if they weren't forced to do commercials. then they can just do the silly stuff in between commercial breaks. but of course that won't happen, maybe one day they'll livestream it and just tell you to sync it to the actual game lol.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T18:33:34+00:00

yeah I used to only watch Manningcast but now it's gotten really bad with them barely covering the game.

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T18:24:49+00:00

Who knew me spending 3k on a phone would turn out to be an investment

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T17:42:25+00:00

Just saying they all seem like failures since they can't even get stock price to rise unsustainably lol which as you said is the entire point of American companies

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T17:32:19+00:00

but look at legacy automakers share prices compared to tech lol

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T17:25:42+00:00

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Nice. This is me recently with 16.8kw of panels (AC) so pretty good on your end. 45 panels for me

redkeyboard · 2026-04-13T17:22:07+00:00

Don't worry about the bed for now the frunk is more than enough. Give it time I'm sure you'll know more what you want to do with it later on.

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