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OK, I am giving it a try. According to the watch even though it had the Wave Ceptor function on all the time, it shows no signal received in the right lower corner. And it says the last update was on 6/19, but I am not even sure if this is this year.

I will let you know if it receives the signal.

 

I completely agree with your opinion that it's without excuse. As is the programing of our traffic lights so we spend almost all our time accelerating or braking when the government claims to be in favor of clean air. That's another thing that's unnecessarily stupid when 55 years ago our family could drive practically all the way across the city where I grew up and we'd see each traffic light turn green just in time so we didn't have to stop. We were back there in May and the lights in that city still worked that way, at least on the streets we traveled.

Sometimes it makes me want to scream, but then I try to get back to a perspective that's better for my blood pressure.

 

Nop... No WaveCeptor signal received.

 

Maine is talking about doing away with it *and* moving to the Atlantic Time Zone. That would be a disaster for us Southern Mainers, especially those of use who work out of state.

 

Yeah, I just downloaded owner's manual for my watch and checked it's functions again. As far as I can remember, I have not seen the signal receiving indicator lit at any level for a long time. The diagram on the manual pointed by the red arrow is what I see all the time now. I do remember it was functioning a long time ago when I traveled to Midwest, but I did not check it on my more recent travels, so not sure if it is still functioning or it's now completely broken. Oh well, it's not a big deal. As I said, even without the Atomic Clock signal, it still keeps extremely good time without needing any adjustment.

 

In my old hometown, there was a stretch of about 6 lights that were all synchronized. They had a bunch of accidents when the lights were synchronized. Too many people ran the first light on yellow and then sped up to try and catch the next several lights before they went yellow. It was fine if you hit it green. Then there was an accident where two people got killed. They shifted the lights all over so you never caught them all green.

 

Why not set the charge schedule "start at" instead of "departure at". If you are using L1, just set the start time to be 6 hours 10 min earlier. Although my L1 always finishes 45min to 1 hour earlier than what the time remaining tells me.

 

Humm, mine always displays 6:10 remaining to full charge. This has not changed entire time I have owned my car, but it is almost always finishes earlier.

 

That is plausible explanation. However, my wall reading of voltage using Kill-a-watt meter is very similar to yours at 120.4V.

 

Mine without not being adjusted by the Wave Ceptor, is off less than a minute in ~6 mo when I have to manually change time according to DTS. So that would be at most 2.5 second/week? This is comparing to the time displayed on a computer or a smart phone. I am assuming they are as accurate as the atomic clock, aren't they?

 

Yeah, I think I've had my Casio for longer than 10 years now, way before I bought my first smartphone. Internet did exist then but not sure if the time keeping on computers were accurate back then. Then again, I was never that obsessed about accuracy, like you.

 

Interesting that you mentioned that. Since the switch to DST, mine has been finishing about an hour early even though the clocks are correct. I haven't played with start times because I prefer to use departure time so it starts charging before I get up in the morning and I don't have to remember to go plug it in at the right time in the afternoon. I guess it won't hurt to be done an hour early, but there's still something not quite right.

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More specifically, the difference is due to a voltage difference which in turn affects the amperage. My line voltage is always spot on at 140V when I check it. [Correction: My L1 voltage is normally 120-130. Had a senior moment there. Or else it was a total brain fart. Sorry for the confusion.] My time to charge on L1 shows 5 hours and (I think) 40 minutes. I think at work it's 5:50 and that's 130V there. [Hmmm. I think I should check those times again. Memory might have failed me there.]