All right. So we're charging here in Pismo Beach and uh I have some time to kill because the Rivian is over there charging. so I just wanted to come and check out this site cuz they don't have Gates A lot of the times these things are gated so you can't really come close to them. but I Just wanted to come and see how one of these power stations is made up.

So check this out right? The Transformer This guy is bringing high voltage like I don't know. like a th000 5,000 volts I don't know. Something high right? M Does it say here? It doesn't say anything from thousands of volts brings it down to three phase, right? and so then uh, once it gets to three phase and then that comes into this box over here right? Uh, and this is just like a like a panel. It's just like a big panel.

It's got switches and Breakers and all that stuff right? And then it goes into these boxes and these are the actual Chargers So these are actual units that make three phase into DC right and then from there. So so Ac lines come in here and then from here it goes to the actual charging uh, pedestals over there right? So these are the Chargers and there's two of them here. and then there's this one charger I Charer I Think these are just different Chargers different versions so there's three of them. uh and there's yeah.

and I think some of them are rated at higher cuz some of those over there are 350 kilowatt and some of them. are like 150 kilowatt right? So I don't know which one's which or whatever. But then this site has an additional set of um equipment here and that's these what you're seeing here and these are Tesla power packs. So these are batteries, right? That's uh, they look like second gen power packs right? So I think these are like I don't 2 megawatt I think each or something right? So maybe that's like 4 megawatt hours and then this big box over here.

it's an inverter. So I think what happens is that these are just batteries. so you need an inverter charger. Basically this this unit right here makes system git tied right.

It's like a like AC couple battery. What it means is that there's an inverter and it works both ways. It it makes the AC power and it charges those batteries. and then when those batteries when you need the power, then it uses this inverter to make it into AC probably three- face.

Um AC right? And so those this is probably like a buffer so that if too many cars show up and we're all pulling too much right like foure cars at the same time pull up. Maybe that can provide continuous power that all stations you know running at full continuous mode will serve. So then these serve as a buffer to then supplement that right? And so I think this is how this is working at at least from my limited understanding of this works. But this is pretty interesting because you know there's one, like a really, really big battery.

and it's basically it's here. Like this technology was really weird at one point like 5 years ago. this was revolutionary. like kind of unheard of.

and now it's like at every one of these stations, this is just the Electrify America station here. but on the other side, over there there's like 12 stalls for Tesla And they have their own set of systems, right? There's another set of these boxes over there and they have their own probably battery and Transformer and the the whole thing. This little site right right here. But this kind of gives you an idea why these sites are so, um, expensive.

Because look at all the equipment that it takes to be able to just operate four high power stalls just to charge four cars at a time. Over there, you need all this equipment and this is like in the millions of dollars worth of equipment. so it's pretty pretty crazy. This is gorgeous.

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