2019 Chevy BOLT

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Originally Posted by freebeard

The other thing I've been doing is working on some designs. I showed five or six to my brother (shed, garage, house, shopping mall, Mars colony) and he just said "Are those from somebody else, or did you do them yourself?" A few might show up in my I Had A Dome Idea thread. "Conventional construction for the price of a mobile home"

You're going to need an X account if your designs are going to be seen by Musk.

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When the time comes. I still struggle with HDRI lighting.

And transparency in Blender is controlled multiple different places. It could be Transparent. or Alpha, or Transmission.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by aerohead

* I've struggled to get on electrifyamerica's charging system for 6-days straight, without any luck. If I can't, I'll be paying 25% higher rates for electricity on the road. The problem stems from leaving all my user names, PINs, and passwords, by accident, at the local Toyota dealership parts department a few years ago.

*Electrifyamerica requires an email/Gmail account user name, and password, and It's been a struggle to navigate GOOGLE, as it's 100% AI, and zero human beings to assist ( Cricket wireless, and Samsung couldn't help), and I'm at the mercy of Google's robots.

What is the problem? OK you lost your password book and are locked out of your gmail account. You can just create a new one. You aren't limited to only 1 Gmail account - I have 5. Create a new account and move on.

Once you have a new email account signing up for EA is easy. Name, phone number, email, and then create a NEW password for EA. (They aren't asking for your email password but you can use the same one if you want)

I recommend you sign up for one of the charging apps like Plug share or ABRP. Electrify America is fine but there are also about a dozen other charge networks out there that might have more convenient charge locations or better pricing. Your Bolt is capped at a 55 kW charge rate so even the older 50 kW chargers will work fine for you. If the Charger site has a mix of chargers try to be polite and use the low power ones instead of taking one of the 350 kW chargers that will still only charge your car at 55 kW.

Originally Posted by aerohead

* The BOLT has enough range to travel for the total solar eclipse. The greatest challenge will be the anticipated gridlock all over the a viewing area. Anyone going may be interested in the comet, which will also be visible in binoculars, not far from the sun, when the 'lights go out'. There will be 4-1/2-minutes of totality where I'm going, if the weather cooperates.

When we had a total eclipse pass over Oregon about 5 years ago the news was going on and on about gridlocked traffic for a week ahead of time. It didn't happen. I drove an hour down to a Walmart in the path of totality and then drove back after. The trip was maybe 5 minutes longer each way.

It was funny to see the difference in attitude between people camped out the parking lot to watch the eclipse and just average customers. It seems a lot of people didn't know that the eclipse was even happening. There were people just going about their normal shopping. Even a few minutes before totality some people would just shrug and walk inside went told we were a few minutes from totality and it was something that wouldn't happen again for 50 years. Couldn't be bothered to take a few minutes out of their day.

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Originally Posted by JSH

Your Bolt is capped at a 55 kW charge rate so even the older 50 kW chargers will work fine for you.

The rate begins to taper around 50% if I recall correctly, and becomes nearly pointless to continue charging after about 80%, unless that extra bit of range is a requirement to get to the next location.

I drove an hour down to a Walmart in the path of totality and then drove back after.

Salem Walmart? I'd have invited you to the farm. We had maybe 30 people there, half of which I'd never met before.

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Salem Walmart? I'd have invited you to the farm. We had maybe 30 people there, half of which I'd never met before.

My brother's place in the 'town' I grew up in (more like an intersection) was the same. Bunch of people from Portland, they even set up a band. ...of sorts. My son caught the whole thing from a drone hovering above it all.

Not for 50 years? As I said in Permalink #8, I've seen IIRC four so far. Least exciting was when we pulled off the highway outside Reno, NV. I forget the year.

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It was the first full one for me, and I was 34 at the time. Hate to say I'll miss the one coming up.

Was in Redmond about a year ago when we had a partial, but it was overcast. For those who say they saw a 95% eclipse, so it's just as good as a full, I say they missed 95% of the wonder of a full eclipse.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

The rate begins to taper around 50% if I recall correctly, and becomes nearly pointless to continue charging after about 80%, unless that extra bit of range is a requirement to get to the next location.

Correct. That last 20% takes about as long as the first 80%

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Salem Walmart? I'd have invited you to the farm. We had maybe 30 people there, half of which I'd never met before.

McMinnville Walmart. It was a quick 30 minute trip and a place with bathrooms for my elderly parents. (My mom thought it was boring - I have no idea were I got my interest in the natural world from - certainly not my parents)

Originally Posted by freebird

Not for 50 years? As I said in Permalink #8, I've seen IIRC four so far.

I was a bit off. The next total solar eclipse that will pass over Oregon is in 2169

In the last century Oregon had total a total eclipse in 1918, 1979, and 2017.

Eclipse Date: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html

Originally Posted by redpoint5

It was the first full one for me, and I was 34 at the time. Hate to say I'll miss the one coming up.

Was in Redmond about a year ago when we had a partial, but it was overcast. For those who say they saw a 95% eclipse, so it's just as good as a full, I say they missed 95% of the wonder of a full eclipse.

We travelled to see one when I was 13 but it was cloudy. It was still cool to see it go completely dark in the early afternoon and have the crickets start chirping.

Yes, that last few percent makes all the difference in the experience. I'm trying to convince my sister-in-law that it is worth it to drive my nieces the 2 hours to see a total eclipse insteady of 95%

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Originally Posted by JSH

Yes, that last few percent makes all the difference in the experience. I'm trying to convince my sister-in-law that it is worth it to drive my nieces the 2 hours to see a total eclipse insteady of 95%

I can't believe the people I talk to in Portland who said they got 95% of total, and were satisfied with that. Maybe like your mom, they just lack that sense of awe and wonder.

I'd have travelled to Texas if it wasn't such a busy time of year and the need to tend to family.

Next opportunity I'll try to position myself precisely in the best path of totality.

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Originally Posted by redpoint5

Next opportunity I'll try to position myself precisely in the best path of totality.

August 12th, 2045 is the next total eclipse to cross the lower 48.

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Should be retired by then. I'll put it in my calendar.