Thanks very much for making all these videos. You do a remarkable job at conveying both the elegant simplicity and magnitude of engineering that have gone into this vehicle. I appreciate Model 3 substantially more now that I see how astoundingly well integrated and designed the system physically is. It suggests extreme robustness, reliability, and longevity, which are ideal adjectives to describe a car, in my opinion. I am stunned at how thoroughly the engineering of Model 3 distinguishes itself from essentially all other vehicles being mass manufactured today.

Looks like they split the phases, one AC-DC converter unit per phase

What power levels are we talking about and can you write parts numbers? mainly the caps and the transistors but also the unusual transformers if they have parts numbers. I also wonder about switching frequencies. It doesn’t look like fast resonant topologies although the 12V is very small if it’s just the corner. Maybe it’s only say 400W or even less.

All these Model 3 videos are great, but as someone who isn’t too familiar with the various hardware being shown, they would be even better if you used a laser pointer (or something similar) to highlight/indicate exactly what you’re talking about. I know you’re pointing the camera or moving it closer to “zoom”, but if one doesn’t know generally what something looks like, a non-ambiguous indicator would help a lot. Thanks for the interesting content and keep up the good work.

How are the magnetics terminated to the board? At 2:09 there looks like some kind of receptacle. I’d like to see some close ups.
Great videos. Thanks for taking the time.

thanks for all these videos do you know how much power you can draw from the 12v converter and what is the voltage of this converter is it really 12v or 14.4v thanx in advance

The trick in this board is the cold plate. Although I can not quite scale how much power and heat it actually handles, but to keep it compact I think the trick is to have it all cooled to keep the mount of copper low and traces reasonable and without additional busbars. I am a bit surprised not to see any or many high power board features.

Any chance of a Model S series? Like a tutorial on CAN bus monitoring and diagnosing faults? How to do diagnostics without the Tesla toolbox, for example.

In the eu the tesla ac-chargers (S & X) support 11KW (3x 16A/230V) @default and 16,5KW (24A) upgrated through software. Do the numbers on the fuses add up to the math?

The Model 3 is an incredibly complicated machine. No wonder Tesla has not made any base models. How could they make any money?