Recent content by oko

Wow that's awful Dan. I hope you got some or all of your expenses from your insurance. Our own experience is nothing compared to yours. But after reading about the earthquake in Turkey/Syria, I really feel ashamed to complain about losing power for 2.5 days. What we had was absolutely nothing...

Thanks Dan! I agree, freezing rain is much worse than snow. This year's was worst of all the ones I experienced in the last 28 years. Thousands of trees, some 100+ years old, got killed or damaged.

What I read is, the newer fridges with variable-speed compressors are perfectly okay with MSW. Of course those opinions might be wrong. Some people say they called GE and Whirlpool asking this and the CSRs had no clue. The reason is for this is these compressors use DC, not AC, as far as I...

Yes, that's why I stopped the car and unhooked everything before going to bed. I checked the car every 2 hour or so during day. I also thought I could hear engine starting during the day.

Correct. I actually did not have a long enough power cable from outside to the kitchen. And there was freezing rain, trees breaking limbs and even whole tress falling down (in our yard, one medium size tree fell down, almost all other had broken limbs) so I wouldn't be comfortable to leave the...

We had a 2.5 days blackout here in Austin. Some people are still powerless since last Wednesday. My Clarity saved our food and charged our phones/laptop, with a $75 inverter. Here's what went exactly right: 1-Unlike my ex-Bolt, Clarity never turns itself off when you put it on ON mode...

Thanks MrFixit and Reyn! I bought the recommended device from Amazon and now I see the AHr, which is 54.2. I am happy about it. My car is only at 7K miles, but it is in hot Texas. It waited to be sold on dealer's lot for over 6 months, under burning sun, and it was 55.1 at that time (I asked the...

Thanks MrFixit for the quick reply! Yes, I followed the instructions. I chose option #2. These are the things I did for my Nissan Leaf for several years, so I am quite familiar with the operation. The OBD device I used is the one that I used for Nissan Leaf. I was thinking that is the culprit...

I followed all the instructions but unfortunately the battery capacity sensor shows blank. Most others are populated, including individual cell voltages (every single of them!), charge status etc. But the main thing I wanted is blank!!! I searched this thread and google and couldn't see any...

I am sorry if this was mentioned before. Do we need inspection for purchasing extended warranty? If yes, how much does it cost? If no, how do I prove the mileage?

From a business point: The company I work for (large, about 9K people) works with airlines and hotels (i.e. our main customers, probably all customers are travel related). Our revenue is probably close to $0 now. We had so far a salary reduction, but a massive layoff wouldn't be surprising.

I got my 2018 refund for amended return (for 2018 charger installation) today! Slightly over $200, and Uncle Sam paid me $9 interest!

Of course you will NOT pay self employment taxes. This is clearly not self employment. I use taxact, and it asks some questions, and then it files this income as something else (don't remember what).

EVSE credit is put back in 2018 tax year, in late 2019. See this thread: https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/threads/congress-retroactively-extends-federal-tax-credit-for-home-ev-chargers-etc.7851/