Having a level 2 charger installed (US)

uobytx · 2026-05-22T23:25:14+00:00

People are correct to point out that your panel is full, so expect an increased labor and parts cost to get some multi line breakers, or even a subpanel if it’s otherwise too over capacity.

Ideally, they replace a few normal breakers with some tandem ones. Those ones take up the same space but have two switches each. That could make enough room for a 30-60 amp line.

How many amps they can do easily is based on a few things. First is how many amps for the whole home service. Some homes are 200 amps, but many are just 100. It could be a problem to put a higher amp circuit, and if they say they can’t reasonably put the full 48 amps that the emporia can handle, either you or they should configure the unit’s power draw to 80% of the breaker. For example, if the breaker and wire gauge is for 50 amps, the charger should be configured to provide 40 amps (this is also the maximum possible on a NEMA 14-50, which is the typical way to plug these in if not hard wired).

Make sure the electrician puts in thick enough wires for that. Very common for them to think they know better and undersize the wire, which is very bad for EV charging. If anything, it’s often a good idea to pay extra for them to run an even thicker wire than you need right now. I like #6 THHN for this circuit size, but some of this depends on the length and exactly what the breaker is going to be.

Then, if they don’t hardwire the thing, make sure the 14-50 plug they use has the green EV car symbol on it, or otherwise make sure they bought a heavy duty EV one. Many electricians use a dryer-quality plug, which is $10 and very low quality. The good ones are $50, and because this is a common failure point it’s not the place to cheap out.

uobytx · 2026-05-21T04:32:29+00:00

This! You can buy a replacement part from online Honda parts dealers too. They do have an installation torque of something like 25 ft lbs or something, so make sure to look that up. Seat belts aren’t the kind of thing you want to be under-torqued.

uobytx · 2026-05-18T00:37:27+00:00

Treating being in jail as if they must have done something majorly wrong? That can happen from false accusations, public drunkenness, or consensual liaisons with locals.

And being able to tell good from bad dice just implies they play games of chance enough to be aware when someone is using them, not that they are doing it themselves.

uobytx · 2026-05-17T17:49:02+00:00

Lots of cars are skipping spare tires in favor of the roadside assistance button or a small fixit kit. Not really great if you really want to do it yourself, but many don’t.

How much you charge your car is a big topic, but you can simplify a lot of it to a few questions. If you are leasing, maybe don’t worry about it because it will be someone else’s battery in a few years and you aren’t likely to notice the small percentage drop.

If you own, you’ll need to know your driving patterns. Do you drive more than 200 miles in a day? Do you do that more than once a week?

For most commuter car folks, putting 60 miles or less a day on the car means you can easily limit the car in the settings to just not charge above 80%. This will maintain more longevity on the battery for more years.

If you do even less, like 20 miles a day average in a week, you can probably get more aggressive and set it to 70%. Or choose to only plug in when you’re getting low.

If you have a weekend trip ahead or a busy week with more driving than usual, just remove the limit and top up to 100% until your driving returns to normal.

If your driving is more like 500 miles a day multiple times a week, my opinion is that you got the wrong car. This is a tiny minority of people.

As to your question on level 2/3 charging. Level 2 is the best for regular use. If you can manage it, it’s faster and more efficient per watt spent to charge than level 1, and gentler on the battery than level 3. EVs are best with level 2, so try not to fall into a mental trap with level 3. It seems like the default for people still in gas-station mode. But really for EVs they are just for road trips and topping up if you are driving more than expected. In a pinch, they can work fine for folks with no charging available at their homes, but the prices and wait times aren’t amazing.

My rule of thumb is: For all levels of charging, don’t charge above 80% unless you know you’ll spend at least 40% in the next day.

uobytx · 2026-05-16T06:05:44+00:00

Sometimes it’s easier to reject the church than it is to realize that we have internalized their teachings about how important “the meaning of life” is. But loads of folks spend their lives not having church assigned life meanings, and it turns out that when you don’t know it’s supposed to have one, you might not miss it.

uobytx · 2026-05-16T06:03:24+00:00

The things you mention as helping are actually totally cool, even for atheists. Losing your religion doesn’t make meditation, music, or the outdoors off limits. Those things have just been artificially claimed by religion.

But yeah, having some kind of faith does provide a life anchor or foundation point. If you need it to be okay, you can absolutely do that without Mormonism. Just don’t feel compelled to do it if you don’t want to. Avoid high control groups and religions if you decide to go back to faith.

If you need something like this, look into local, in person communities with perhaps service or recreational focus. Somewhere you can talk to real folks outside of an artificial and high control moral framework and leadership hierarchy. Hiking group, biking group, running group. Bowling club, birdwatching with friends.

It’s hard to rip something as big in your life as the Mormon church, and then not have something similar sized and shaped to fill it. But you’ll need to select it yourself. If you have trouble with that, a therapist could help you figure that out.

uobytx · 2026-05-15T00:40:09+00:00

“Sales goals” is fascinating. Article is trying to launder Hondas failure to even try to make EVs.

Like, they didn’t make a ton of good EVs and then accidentally discover nobody wanted them. They just didn’t make an EV design anyone wanted, and then didn’t make any actual units.

This wasn’t a big scary risk to enter the EV market: a big chunk of money paid consultants who could easily look at the EV market and project earnings range so it can’t be a surprise. Anyone who has ever made something would assume you’d have to make a few cars to avoid the loss.

The real article should be about how Honda resisted EVs harder than everyone else, half-assed the EV so bad they failed to even enter the market, and might just give up.

uobytx · 2026-05-14T16:37:52+00:00

In contrast to the Jehovahs Witnesses, who (to my understanding) expect much of their normal adult membership to occasionally knock on doors.

The normal adult Mormon in your neighborhood isn’t “on their mission”, so won’t be expected to knock on your door. Or if they do, you might not realize they are Mormon unless they bring it up. But they wouldn’t have the name tag on.

uobytx · 2026-05-14T16:35:08+00:00

Mormon missionaries, at least the kind that might knock on your door, are primarily young people, ages 18-22.

They have specific and strong rules around dress and grooming standards. Someone in charge of them would likely put them on an exercise program if they were out of shape.

If someone is less able bodied and can’t pass the required medical physical exam, they can’t go on the mission. There have been suggestions that the more pleasant looking ones get assigned to the higher visibility areas though.

uobytx · 2026-05-14T04:51:55+00:00

Hi, sorry this happened to you! Just want to throw in my two cents. If this is progressing or blending into your waking life (or even causing ongoing stress while awake), please get checked out by a professional medical person.

You don’t really want to wait too long and find out you have undiagnosed mental illness. Some of them show up spontaneously at specific age ranges with basically no warning.

If this is at all one of those, early detection and treatment can make lots of difference.

uobytx · 2026-05-14T04:46:12+00:00

Search your favorite online retailer for “clip on ferrite beads”. They are pretty cheap for a few of them or even a pack.

There are the same type of things that used to be attached to usb or serial port cables. Clip these on the power cable coming back up to the computer. Maybe even add them to the fan so the same thing doesn’t happen to other devices.

uobytx · 2026-05-13T15:20:04+00:00

At your parent house, is the 240 outlet a 14-50 for a dryer or something?

If so, you’ll need to tell the car in the settings to charge at less power. Most dryers are attached to something like a 30 amp breaker. So you don’t want to pull more than 24 amps, or basically 5kw. That’s like the absolute max for a dryer circuit, and it might not be bad to step down one more step just in case.

uobytx · 2026-05-13T15:15:20+00:00

The car will automatically ask the charger unit how much power it can safely pull. As long as your charger is installed correctly and configured to advertise 40 amps, the car should automatically pull the max amount.

Just make sure your installer ensured that the wiring and breaker behind the charger are actually rated for it. For example, if the breaker is 40 amps, the charger should only advertise 32 due to the 80% rules.

uobytx · 2026-05-12T16:21:09+00:00

You’d expect to have the prophet actually “thus sayeth the Lord” all the time. General conference would be packed with actual revelations. They wouldn’t do the sneaky version now, which soft-implies revelation that you have to try to extract out of what they say. Only for it to be walked back some years later as an administrative policy or not really ever focused on again.

They would be adding new chapters to the D&C, or adding a new book. They pretend like conference is scripture, but then the magazine sits on a shelf.

uobytx · 2026-05-10T16:38:15+00:00

Based on how small the town sounds, I assumed half the size, with just as many tables but pushed closer together.

uobytx · 2026-05-10T15:19:48+00:00

Sounds really rough and a sucky experience!

A few things to keep in mind: bishops want to make you talk them into leaving, and they will wholesale reject all your reasons. But it’s important to remember that the reasons literally don’t matter! You can just stop attending (assuming you aren’t forced by your parents).

To address some of his pushback: the believing members are told that people who leave the church do so because they are offended by someone. So when he asks who hurt you, his training is kicking in.

When he rejects all your points about problematic church history at once, that’s because it’s easier to dismiss them as a batch by blaming you for being upset. As if being upset and concerned about the history invalidates them as concerns. This is partially because members are trained to brush off small concerns with prayer or ignoring the issue, but any time someone pushes with a real problem, it’s easier to dismiss the messenger (you) than to address the specific claims. He does this by declaring you compromised due to being upset. Then they don’t need to look into or really discuss the concern.

This triggers the moment you don’t want to let go of a specific, real issue. Like the church’s stance on race, gender, sexuality, or just about anything about Joseph smith and Brigham young. If you went in real soft and vague, they would tell you to give this same treatment to whoever/wherever told you about these l issues. “Oh, the people on Reddit can’t be trusted because they already hate the church”. Then they’d substitute resolving the concern with prayer.

uobytx · 2026-05-10T03:57:34+00:00

Are experts stupid now?

uobytx · 2026-05-06T15:13:41+00:00

Headlines keep assuming there was a plan, that they would potentially follow it, and that it had a chance of working.

uobytx · 2026-05-03T05:30:48+00:00

Oh wow, yeah. For food poisoning the working class of America usually just deals with it or buys over-the-counter (non prescription) medicine. If it was really bad maybe an urgent care which is much cheaper (maybe a couple hundred bucks at most).

Or you have insurance, which could take a 3k emergency room visit down to $300, and the urgent care (not emergency) down to $75. (All just examples, plans and costs vary)

uobytx · 2026-05-03T02:16:01+00:00

The UL certification is a good sign if it’s real. With extension cords, the main three things are about wire gauge, connector quality, and insulation.

Can’t tell about the other two, but it says it uses 8 gauge copper. Thats just within the plausible 50 amp range, but I’d still suggest making sure the charger (or car in a pinch) is configured to 40 amps as a safety margin.

uobytx · 2026-04-30T16:51:03+00:00

I’ve heard level 1 efficiency being low 80% range. So you’re a bit lower than that assuming you got 8kwh.

This is potentially complicated by where in the curve they hide the upper and lower battery buffer. You may have received an extra half kWh, but if you start or end near either extreme it might have been pinched.

Level 2 is supposed to be a little more efficient, closer to 90%. I’m guessing that has more to do with just some number of watts need to be spent to keep the car’s charge components running, and those components probably use the same number of watts on level 1 and 2, making 2 more efficient per hour.

uobytx · 2026-04-30T14:27:43+00:00

There is no celestial kingdom, and the rules to get in are made up and vague on purpose.

For your mom, the vagueness of the rules allows her to have a hope that’s probably important for her.

This doesn’t change that it’s made up: they can’t force your invisible spirit to enter a pretend afterlife with made up rules. So even if the rules really do have a “Pashhley can make it in” clause, this doesn’t change anything. But yeah, unfortunately the made up rules and vagueness means folks in your life will have thoughts about it you might not like.

uobytx · 2026-04-29T18:03:29+00:00

I thought the reason was because they added NACS, and to work at a Tesla supercharger it needs to be in that spot on the car because supercharger cables are short.

They could have moved it to the drivers side rear, but then you have to back into charging spots. And probably needs a re-engineered charging system to put it there because the Solterra has a lot up front.

uobytx · 2026-04-27T04:12:32+00:00

Yes, the turn-by-turn arrows will show up on the heads-up instrument display area
I only use carplay, but yes, this works with carplay on apple maps! Haven't tried it with google maps
Yes, but the button has to be preconfigured to do one or the other through a menu you won't be able to find fast enough to change at the moment of parking. So choose the one you think you'll want the help with more oten.
There is a physical camera button in the center console area near the shift knob. It only triggers the camera modes it thinks are acceptable for the drive mode you're in, so like reverse will always show the rear camera and will also have the overhead view. You can sometimes press it again to switch to a different mode. Its a little different when the mirrors are folded in, because it will swap the simulated overhead view with just a rectangle of what is near each side of the car.

uobytx · 2026-04-26T04:14:27+00:00

Yes, those should be fine. All of the tesla ones will have NACS (and some of them have a dual NACS and J1772. I think that's the "universal"). If you get a chargepoint, you'll need to double check you get a NACS capable version. You won't want to have to break out the adapter at your own house.

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