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Discussion in 'Prime Main Forum (2017-2022)' started by PiPLosAngeles, Nov 14, 2019.

  1. bresna

    bresna Active Member

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    140 Volts AC out of your wall? That's really not good. I can't imagine your electrical appliances are happy with that. Even 130 Volts is out of spec. NEMA spec is +/- 10%, which is typically listed as 103.5-126.5 Volts
     
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    Wow, 140V off the wall? Is this regional thing? Are sensitive electronics rated for 110V works OK on 140V outlet without a step-down transformer?
     
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    Senior moment. :oops: My L2 is actually 240-248 most of the time. I think that's where I got the "40." :whistle: My multimeter just decided to go on the fritz and not switch from DC to AC, so I can't check it now. But the L2 meter I've installed is reading 247 at the moment, so I'd assume, if the two sides of the panel are even that right now it's about 123-124 volts. I have seen 130 before.
     
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    That I can believe. ;) BTW, are household wall outlet ever 110V? I have seen 110/220V on electrical specs, but most of the houses I have lived had 120V/240V. Are they two different standards in the US?
     
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  5. PiPLosAngeles

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    It's always been 120/240 wherever I've had occasion to test. I suppose if you were really far from the transformer on the pole you might see a lower voltage. I do not know.
     
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    How so?
     
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    Decades ago, it was 110V, but has increased. I don't know when that happened. 120 is nominal, but it can vary. It's not by location, but it's by the load on the grid and how well the automatic tap on the utility's transformers adjust to keep the voltage in spec. For example, I got a late-night call from work back when I was supervising electricians that our voltage had climbed from 480 to WAY over 500V. I seem to recall seeing a 560 when I went in to check on it. They were blowing fuses all over the place! They had called the power company and the response, of course, was that all was well on their end. Well, we were such a big customer that they had assigned someone to be sort of a representative for us. I called him, he checked on it, and it went back to normal within an hour. Next morning, he called and told me they found that one of those taps was stuck. So, as people went to bed and the power load dropped, the voltage increased. A bunch!
     
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    I'm always surprised at how often I find situations where absolutely mission-critical infrastructure is not designed with any kind of fail safe. In our high-rise office building we routinely get insane transients from the power company, even to the degree that one of them blew one of our 4kV transformers. That took out the cooling towers for a month while we waited for a new transformer and figured out how to get it to the top of a skyscraper without spending $300,000 on a heavy lift helicopter. In the end we had to disassemble the transformer and take the pieces to the roof in the freight elevator and put it all back together on the roof. The trick was getting it into pieces that were under the weight limit of the elevator. We were so lucky it was during the winter and we didn't need to cool the building. Now we have a spare transformer in case this happens again.
     
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    Did you mean 4 kVA? They're usually measured in volt/amps. We blew one at our plant in Ohio that was 2,000 kVA. I was standing next to it at the time. Biggest boom I ever heard!!
     
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    A 4160 kVA. We have three on the building. Not sure why it ended up as 4 kV. While it was down we used a spare 2000 kVA to run one cooling tower. We had to put an Easy-Up over it and lots of fans, but it worked.
     
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    Back to the DST issue, as I understand it, the NAV system in the car is using GPS (from satellites) and watches are using WWV, which is shortwave radio (5Mhz, 10MHz, 15Mhz, among other frequencies). GPS has no notion of time zone or DST; its all UTC, from the satellites. The problem with DST is when the rules about when DST is in effect change, not whether a particular area honors DST. On most DST-knowledgeable devices, just as one sets the time zone manually, one can manually set if your area honors DST. This deals with particular states not honoring DST (like Arizona) or DST not being honored in particular locations (like some Native American reservations). I think that what is currently under consideration is whether an entire state honors DST, where a fixed setting saying that DST is honored or not would suffice, not changing the formula for when DST is in effect.
     
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    This is a really inept system. I'm a big fanboy of Toyota (on my fourth in a row, and my third Prius in a row) but it sure seems like they are adopting the VW philosophy of making self-servicing your car (even on something as seemingly simple as changing the clock time) hard enough so people have to go to the dealer to pay to get it done. GPS is critical to me-I use this car for work and drive to time sensitive appointments. To have to go into a separate menu and turn DST off is both non-intuitive and just plain stupid. Aggravating customers is not the way to keep repeat buyers.
     
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    Hmm... I didn't have to change my Nav system clock for DST. I found it in the nav menu system while trying to change the MID clock, and DST was already ticked off and the correct time was being displayed. I suppose it is possible that it has always been off because I don't recall ever looking at this - I've had the car for ~6 mos.

    What is messed up is that the MID clock must be set elsewhere. Really emphasizes how unintegrated the big screen nav is with the rest of the car.
     
  14. PiPLosAngeles

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    I don't even know what the navigation clock is for in the 2021 LE. As far as I know the only functions that need to clock aren't even in the LE. There appears to be a clock that is never shown to the driver or passengers or even used used internally that is kept synchronized to the millisecond with GPS satellites, and another clock visible to all the occupants of the car which is not synchronized or maintained in any way.
     
  15. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    It's for "estimated time of arrival" if you use that setting while under route guidance. (rather than "time to arrival" which is the default)
     
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    There is no route guidance in the 2021 LE.