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Costco Novato 2/2/02

I just noticed that the charger info for the Novato Costco has not been updated 
since 1999.  I wanted to make sure there was still a charger there since I'll be 
arriving at that location on Saturday with probably two miles left on the
Range-o-meter.  Can anybody do me the huge favor of verifying that they've used
the charger there recently?
 
In return, I'll take a picture of it when I get there, and see that it's sent to Tom 
and Dave to post.
 
Thanks again,
-= Darell Dickey =-  1/30/02  1137 am
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I've used it within the last week.  It's working fine.

-Jerry Hudgins      1/30/02   1151 am
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Howdy folks -
 
Just returned from my longest round-trip yet.  140 miles with one charge in the 
middle.  I took some pictures, and recorded the position. 

This is known as the Fair Oaks shopping center.

I have a clarification for the location description too.  The current 
description contains this line: "The charging station is next to the front door 
of the tire center, at the southwest corner of the building" which confused me 
somewhat.  I consider the "front door of the tire center" to be the main drive-
through roll- up doors, but the chargers are nowhere near those.  They're near 
the single person-door that is shown in the Novato1.jpg picture.  And while the 
Tire Center itself is at the Southwest corner of the entire Costco building, I 
took that to mean that the chargers were at the Southwest corner of the Tire 
Center, which they are not.  I think a better description would be:

The charging stations are adjacent to the person-door of the Tire Center which 
is located Southwest (to the right) of the main Costco entrance.  Included in 
this small parking area are the handicapped spaces and a couple of spaces marked 
"Tire Center Only."

The official position from my StreetPilot is N 38º 05.227'  W -122º 33.047'

[In MapBlast lingo, that's 38.08712  -122.55078.  Ed.]

Since there are two spaces served by two chargers, it would have made WAY more 
sense to gang the two chargers between the parking spots.  But no - the 
inductive charger is way off to the left where it can only reach one space.  The 
conductive can reach either one.

Darell Dickey 2/2/02