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I have 2800 miles in two months on my Gen 2 R1S. Just visited my first RAN charger and happy to report, a flawless, fast experience. Pulled up, plugged in and pulling at 198 kw. Please Rivian, more of these!
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I've never used a RAN station before. What do the colors at the top mean? Green? Red? Yellow?
 

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I've never used a RAN station before. What do the colors at the top mean? Green? Red? Yellow?
They cycle through colors, OP just took the picture when they were the colors seen here. I was confused my first time because I thought the red ones were out of service but if the screen is on and working, they're good to go.
 

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They cycle through colors, OP just took the picture when they were the colors seen here. I was confused my first time because I thought the red ones were out of service but if the screen is on and working, they're good to go.
Thank you! I'm planning on using my first RAN chargers this winter when we head up to VT.
 

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Thank you! I'm planning on using my first RAN chargers this winter when we head up to VT.
They're wonderful! Keep in mind, to get max speed you have to make sure you're using a charger that isn't sharing power with anyone else plugged in. Usually they're named 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, ... and so on. All of the 1's share power, all of the 2's share power, etc. I believe each cabinet can output around 300kW, so if three vehicles are plugged into 1A, 1B, and 1C, they'll each get roughly 100kW. If there's only one vehicle plugged into 2A and nothing on 2B or 2C, that one vehicle will get the full available power.

TL;DR: when fast charging, make sure you spread out and skip a few chargers in between other cars whenever you can
 

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RAN makes charging nice and boring, just how I like it.
 
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Yea the rotating colors when driving up I have to say were very confusing. It first appeared they were all red or yellow and I was thinking all offline. Not the case, just a weird design
 

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Yea the rotating colors when driving up I have to say were very confusing. It first appeared they were all red or yellow and I was thinking all offline. Not the case, just a weird design
Hmmm.... Red does mean out of service. You may just have caught it right at the end of some network update or something.
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