Couple Gets Trapped for 10 Hours After EV Charging Station Welds Itself to Car (theautopian.com) 26 points by throw7 9mo ago ↗ HN
[–] opwieurposiu 9mo ago ↗ Bugs like to crawl into little holes like on the charging plug/car and can increase resistance enough to cause this issue.When I built a robot that had to plug/unplug things 1000s of times it had an air-gun to clean out the plugs each cycle.I am not sure arc-detection would help you that much in case of a bug because by the time it starts arcing the pin has already melted.
[–] general1465 9mo ago ↗ Buy a bag of thermite and set of sparklers to avoid being kidnapped by a charger.
[–] fouc 9mo ago ↗ The title is misleading "Trapped" made me think they were stuck inside the car for 10 hours. No, only their car was stuck. [–] Cpoll 9mo ago ↗ Yeah, a better word would be "stranded," but that would get fewer clicks.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 20.9 ms ] threadWhen I built a robot that had to plug/unplug things 1000s of times it had an air-gun to clean out the plugs each cycle.
I am not sure arc-detection would help you that much in case of a bug because by the time it starts arcing the pin has already melted.