Fort Worth to Ruidosa NM trip. Lesson learned from fried CCS charger adapter

[Laser68]

Trip to Ruidosa goes off grid of Tesla superchargers past Post Texas. The trip requires a charge as the elevation change is a drain on the battery. Post Texas to Roswell New Mexico requires about 85 percent battery so no problem there.

Arriving in Roswell another solution was required rather than the Tesla home charger options offered. I was able to purchase an adapter for a CCS speed charger that allowed me to use Francis Energy in Roswell. The charger charged at 88kw/hr which is very adequate and required only a 45 min charge.

I learned a valuable lesson when we arrived in Ruidosa and used another Francis Energy CCS CHARGER with the new adapter. Upon charging and after about 25 percent added I smelled burning. The CT quickly shut down the charge. Upon inspection the adapter was completely fried. We thought we had a bad adapter. Ordered another from Amazon and arrived two days later. We tried again and it worked. Then half way through the charge we noticed it failed again. What we noticed was the hose is soo heavy it created a gap in the connection. To remedy the situation we put a yeti cooler as support and no more issues.

Adapter: https://a.co/d/2Asy38b

Pics attached.

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[Laser68]

Wanted to add that we also took the time to look the proposed build sight for the Roswell Tesla Supercharger that is slated to open December 2026. As of today there is nothing there but a Whataburger.

 

[Ri22]

Amazon adapters are a crap shoot. You can afford a real one

https://a2zevshop.com/products/ccs-thunderstorm-max

 

[M0unt41nm4n]

Amazon adapters are a crap shoot. You can afford a real one

https://a2zevshop.com/products/ccs-thunderstorm-max

100% agree with this... the A2Z chargers are excellent.

 

[Laser68]

Amazon adapters are a crap shoot. You can afford a real one

https://a2zevshop.com/products/ccs-thunderstorm-max

Thanks for the link just ordered this one! Hoping for much better results

 

[CT_AZ_4x4]

Trip to Ruidosa goes off grid of Tesla superchargers past Post Texas. The trip requires a charge as the elevation change is a drain on the battery. Post Texas to Roswell New Mexico requires about 85 percent battery so no problem there.

Arriving in Roswell another solution was required rather than the Tesla home charger options offered. I was able to purchase an adapter for a CCS speed charger that allowed me to use Francis Energy in Roswell. The charger charged at 88kw/hr which is very adequate and required only a 45 min charge.

I learned a valuable lesson when we arrived in Ruidosa and used another Francis Energy CCS CHARGER with the new adapter. Upon charging and after about 25 percent added I smelled burning. The CT quickly shut down the charge. Upon inspection the adapter was completely fried. We thought we had a bad adapter. Ordered another from Amazon and arrived two days later. We tried again and it worked. Then half way through the charge we noticed it failed again. What we noticed was the hose is soo heavy it created a gap in the connection. To remedy the situation we put a yeti cooler as support and no more issues.

Adapter: https://a.co/d/2Asy38b

Pics attached.

Wow. Thank you for sharing this unfortunate experience including a solution.

 

[Stuck4ger]

Thanks for sharing that story. I’ve had to work around the lack of superchargers in the Ruidoso area.

 

[Ri22]

Thanks for the link just ordered this one! Hoping for much better results

I've had zero problems with mine on Francis Energy and also Electrify America. NM has a lot of V2 chargers so sometimes I just hit up the EA.

 

[RobertWarren]

Thanks for the heads up. Leaving Supercharger network today.

 

[CyberGus]

As of today there is nothing there but a Whataburger.

You mean a nothingburger

 

[CyberGus]

To remedy the situation we put a yeti cooler as support and no more issues.

I've visited CCS chargers that attach the cables to a self-retracting line, so that it's always pulling on the connection. I usually end up standing there holding it, like I'm pumping gas. Hmmph.

 

[getsometom]

Glad we're not seeing you on the news with a burned down CT. Thanks for sharing the tip.

 

[mongo]

Trip to Ruidosa goes off grid of Tesla superchargers past Post Texas. The trip requires a charge as the elevation change is a drain on the battery. Post Texas to Roswell New Mexico requires about 85 percent battery so no problem there.

Arriving in Roswell another solution was required rather than the Tesla home charger options offered. I was able to purchase an adapter for a CCS speed charger that allowed me to use Francis Energy in Roswell. The charger charged at 88kw/hr which is very adequate and required only a 45 min charge.

I learned a valuable lesson when we arrived in Ruidosa and used another Francis Energy CCS CHARGER with the new adapter. Upon charging and after about 25 percent added I smelled burning. The CT quickly shut down the charge. Upon inspection the adapter was completely fried. We thought we had a bad adapter. Ordered another from Amazon and arrived two days later. We tried again and it worked. Then half way through the charge we noticed it failed again. What we noticed was the hose is soo heavy it created a gap in the connection. To remedy the situation we put a yeti cooler as support and no more issues.

Adapter: https://a.co/d/2Asy38b

Pics attached.

Yikes! Especially since those were 150kW max chargers.

 

[Friday]

I hate that in mid 2025, after all the YAHOO about NACS winning the platform wars, Cybertrucks still struggle with no native CCS adaptor and f*ck*ng EA and others will not retrofit a couple existing chargers to NACS in the way underserved supercharger areas. IONNA is a promise of a solution, but they are slooooowwwllly showing up.

But a POX upon the 3rd party charge companies who won't adopt NACS. They will disappear...............

 

[pricedm]

Thanks for the heads up. Leaving Supercharger network today.

We’re praying for you lol.

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