Jerry Pohorsky 1/25/01:

I just used the right hand charger at the Almaden Costco (San Jose).  
It was working fine.  (Small paddle adaptor needed).
I used the left hand one a couple of weeks ago. It worked fine also.


Terry Dowling 1/25/02:

Charged on the right hand charger on 1/12/02.

At first the charger was not functioning, reset
the charger, didn't help, second reset did and
I got an hour's worth of charge out of it.

The problem (E5) is the same as it has been for
quite some time.


Terry Dowling 6/21/01

Thomas Dowling wrote:
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Terry Dowling reported to me that both chargers were working, but that one
> needed to be reset with the CCID reset button on the bottom right front
> corner
> of the charger.  Terry, what day was that?  Did you actually use the
> charger?

It was Sunday 6/17 at about 2:00 or so. I used the left hand charger
and charged for about 1 hour. The right hand charger did not light up
when I pulled the paddle out but showed the normal display after I 
pushed the reset button. Both parking spots within reach of that
charger were ICEd so I was unable to see if I could draw current
from the charger.

> 
> I wonder if there is a ground fault of some kind that keeps causing the
> button to trip.  I also wonder if the charger would actually work for a few
> hours once reset.
> 
> Tom Dowling
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg West [mailto:greg.west@prodigy.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:52 PM
> To: tdowlin1@home.com
> Subject: Charger Report...
> 
> 6/20/01
> 
> One of the two GEN2+ Magna Charge chargers at the Costco on Almaden
> Expy at HWY 85 in San Jose is down.  The other works.  I called this
> same charger in as I did a couple of weeks ago.  I don't know if it
> got fixed and is down again, or never got fixed.  By the way, two of
> the three EV parking spaces in front of the chargers were iced.
> 
> Greg West

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Adobe Systems Inc.          dowling@adobe.com


Mike Thompson  8/7/01

Left hand charger. No problems at any time.

Weird stuff with the right hand charger.
Previously I stopped by (7/25?) and checked it. The GFI was tripped. I
reset it charged for a few moments.

8/1 Hot day. 90+
Left hand charger: no problems. Charged 10 minutes at 3.4kW/9.0A
Right hand charger: GFI was tripped when I arrived. I reset it and charged
for one hour at 3.4kW/9.0A (Palm Pilot EV1Dash). Hot day, AC running for
the NiMh pack. Charged from around 41% to 53% pack user state of charge.
Didn't have any problems or error codes during this time that others
previously reported. Did not observe any error codes or problems charging.
Maybe it got fixed since Terry saw the E5 error code?

Hmmm... from Tom Dowling's (your) earlier post:
E5 utility voltage too low - brownout fault

Maybe their is an occasional utility problem? That might explain the GFI
being tripped frequently.