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[oobflyer]

I'm leaving tomorrow morning for my "Big" ride to Hollister. It will be over 200 miles roundtrip, not including the 100-mile-ride with Terry Hershner on Saturday.
I'll be charging in Patterson, Gilroy, and Pleasanton - it should be fun - I'll post some pictures here and on the facebook page later this weekend.
Happy 4th of July everyone!

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

I'm in the area trying to move to Oakland. I'll have a V-Strom over the 3-day weekend in case you'd like to meet.

[GambitDash]

Are you lugging dual Elcons and the j1771 adapter or something else?

Cheers
--G

[oobflyer]

I'm in the area trying to move to Oakland. I'll have a V-Strom over the 3-day weekend in case you'd like to meet.

I'll be meeting Terry Hershner at the Corbin Seat Factory in Hollister at 9AM on Saturday, July 4th - be there!

Are you lugging dual Elcons and the j1771 adapter or something else?

I have three of the Delta-Q off-board chargers from Zero and the J1772 Quad adapter from Hollywood Electrics. I can charge at 4 kW/40A - so from empty it would only take only a couple of hours to charge. Not quite as fast as the Elcon setup, but not bad.

[nevetsyad]

Oobflyer,

Do you keep the chargers all spread out no the ground while charging? Do you baby-sit them so no one messes with your setup the entire time?

About to be doing similar trips soon once my hardware comes in and I'm just curious/paranoid.

Steven

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

I'm in the area trying to move to Oakland. I'll have a V-Strom over the 3-day weekend in case you'd like to meet.

I'll be meeting Terry Hershner at the Corbin Seat Factory in Hollister at 9AM on Saturday, July 4th - be there!

Sounds cool, but it looks like I'm headed east this morning with friends. I did look around at Alice's yesterday between a Skyline ride and 1. I'll catch up soon!

[oobflyer]

I started off early Friday morning and headed from Stockton to Patterson. I arrived in Patterson with 50% charge on my bike and plugged in.
For a few minutes it seemed like it was all good, but then things started to go bad....

[oobflyer]

After charging about 10% the charging just stopped.  I tried unplugging and re-plugging the chargers without success. I tried restarting the charging station, I reset the BMS, I cycled the bike on and off...

I was just about to give up and turn around and head home when the charging finally started and continued - until I had 100%.

This Tesla pulled in next to me while I was charging.

I decided to risk it and continue on to Gilroy (about 20 miles from Holister).

I made it to the motel with 30% charge left, but...

The bike was "dead". I checked into the motel with the intention of riding to a J1772 station a couple of miles away, but the bike wouldn't engage the motor. Error #56 - "monolith disconnected".

I got permission to plug the bike in at the motel and I decided to walk to the J1772 charging station while calling for help - the charging station is at the Gilroy Outlet stores - just next to a Tesla Supercharger station. There were so many Teslas that one of them had to use the J1772 charger.

While I was walking and talking on the phone - I got a message from Terry Hershner (thanks Terry!) who saw my post on Facebook. He was able to find someone at Zero to look at my bike logs.

When I got back to the motel a couple of hours later there was good news and bad. I tried turning my bike on - and it worked! The error #56 was gone, the motor engaged - I was able to ride again. There was (and still is) error #49 ("contactor open disable"), but at least I was no longer stuck at the motel without a ride.

Now I had to decide whether to ride to Hollister in the morning, or just try to make it back home....

[oobflyer]

After talking to Terry Herschner (after he talked to the Zero tech) I decided to risk it. I rode to Hollister where I met Terry and another Zero owner, Doug. We were all able to plug in in preparation for the "Vetter Fuel Challenge Ride" at a J1772 station at the Corbin Factory. The older gentleman in the photo is Craig Vetter - the gentleman on the right is Doug.
We took off with the extreme aerodynamic bikes (and a variety of other bikes) and ride 70 miles round-trip from Hollister to Santa Nella.

[oobflyer]

We plugged in after arriving back at Corbin - my bike charged up normally. I even added one of Terry's chargers to my three to charge at 5 kW (well, almost).

With an hour or so to kill I had the opportunity to check out all of the interesting bikes, tour the factory, and talk to some interesting folks.

[oobflyer]

Lightening was there! But no test-rides 

I headed home after charging to 100% again, stopping by the San Louis Reservoir on Hwy 152.

I stopped again in Patterson to charge for an hour at 4 kW before heading home.

I didn't have any more problems with my bike, but I have to take it back to the dealership to see what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I also posted a short video from this weekend - check it out on YouTube:

[benswing]

Great write up, thanks for all the nitty-gritty details!


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[GambitDash]

Yeah, appreciate the good and the bad.  Monolith disconnected sounds like a 2001-grade error. Hopefully they are able to diagnose it rapidly!

Cheers
--G

[Richard230]

I agree.  That was a very interesting trip story. Thanks for the writeup.  Looking at your charging photos, it is amazing that someone doesn't trip over all of those wires.   

[ethanh8791]

Thanks for the story - looked like a fun adventure. 

Curious about the outcome of your error 49. How was it fixed? Or?