We have a Tesla power wall 3 and expansion pack, have had them for about a month now. They have always charged starting at midnight and then been fully charged ready for 5am when the rate changes, as seen in the graphs. The green line is today charging where it has decided to wait till about 2am to start charging and then failed to fully charge to 100% getting to about 94%. Anyone seen this and know why
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I had a 7.38Kw system with PW3 installed last year before the energy rebates expired. Designed and installed by Tesla . The system was estimated to only offset 65% of our electricity use, and for the first several months we were seeing it cover about 70% of our use. We wanted more, but they said the roof would not fit more than 18 panels
However - I wanted to see if I could cover closer to 100%. I live in a warm climate so, the largest electric use is air conditioning. We had a fairly new AC, but it ran 10 hours a day in the warmer months. so my next thought was, maybe I needed more insulation. Sure enough, my attic had about R30 and I upgraded it to about R60.
While we haven’t hit summer heat yet, it’s getting hot here and the AC is running about 40% less than the year before for the same months, and our electric bill is consistently at the minimum for our utility company (like $30)
Also bought a Model Y during this time! Still hitting those minimum bills.
TLDR: All that to say, if your system is “too small” and heating or cooling use a lot of energy, consider upgrading your insulation!
Hi first time poster here. I'm considering installing Tesla solar panels my house. As far as I know the county (Montgomery County, MD) has the standard setback rules without extra stipulations
In general, how accurate is Tesla's design, drawing? In general is the actual measurements accurately reflected in their drawing? or is their drawing only a rough reference?
Tesla told me this is the best they can do. but I think they can do better
-If their drawing is accurate. they should be able to fit in more panels, especially on the front.
-I want to have the panels installed vertically, to make the best use of roof space but they wouldn't do. but based on their drawing, it seems achievable, but it's a bit tight.
I am also considering having a roof company removing the two exhaust caps on the back to fit in at least one more panel in the 3*3 grid, and ideally one more alongside the grid.
-And can anyone share any experience persuading them if my design (see red boxes) is feasible.
Thank you all!
Context:
I live in the houston area. Im getting close to the install date for my solar with 2 tesla powerwall3's. I have a detached 3 car garage. I am not using the single car space currently, and that single garage door is almost flush with the side of the garage that has my power meter and main breaker box. So I have two otions. Either install the powerwalls in the garage 3 feet off the ground and hope that does not restrict any future owner from using that space for a car if they want to. Or mount them on the outside of the garage and not effect the functionality of the single car space.
Question:
Originally I was planning in having the batteries installed on the outside of the garage. But thinking more about it, I know batteries dont like extreme temps. Will the winter occasional freeze and the hot humid summers have a noticeable impact on the battery performance or am I over thinking it. The garage is not temp regulated but should insulate the batteries from the extremes being in the garage. So is it really worth having them installed in the garage or is the performance impact small enough that I should stick with my original plan and have them installed outside. They would be on a west facing wall and would only be exposed to direct sunlight a few hours in the afternoon.
As a Tesla Premium Powerwall installer, we’re excited to help test backward compatibility between the Powerwall 3 and existing Powerwall 2 systems.
One North Canberra energy geek and long term customer already owned three Powerwall 2 units and jumped at the chance to add Powerwall 3 along with two expansion units. This brings their total storage capacity to over 80 kWh storage to participate in a VPP.
The wider rollout is looking promising.
I have 2 Tesla powerwall 3s newly connected to solar panels yesterday. This afternoon I had a frustrating time trying to connect them to the Tesla app. The Bluetooth will not connect.
I searched Reddit for solutions-
I have tried,
restarting phone
resetting network settings
turning blue tooth on and off
turning the toggle switch off then on
I have tried whilst WiFi switched off, whilst logged into home WiFi and whilst logged into Tesla WiFi
all of above with data switched off
all of above using my phone, hubbys iPhone and an iPad
The app suggests switching it off at breaker- no idea which that is- there are 3 large grey circular switches over the batteries and another even bigger yellow switch to right.
The power walls are connected with one lit up and whirring and the other is unlit and quiet
The app suggests forgetting the power wall in Bluetooth but I can’t as there is no blue i to click.
Does anyone have any ideas?
The Tesla Roadster isn't an "engineering delay." It’s a 9-year, interest-free loan.
In 2017, Tesla was bleeding cash. Instead of begging banks, they put vaporware on a stage and farmed $50,000 deposits from loyalists.
9 years later: still no car. They didn't need engineers back then; they needed zero-cost liquidity to survive and pump the stock.
If you miss a bank payment, your life is ruined. A billionaire holds millions in customer cash for a decade, delivers nothing, and is praised as a genius.
It’s not a car. It’s a masterclass in capital extraction.💰💼♟️
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Normal peak is 4.0, thank you.
I have a split solar setup and I’m trying to reconcile the live numbers. Something doesn’t add up and I want to understand what’s actually happening.
Setup:
What I’m seeing right now:
My understanding:
So:
Is this normal behavior with split systems (Tesla + separate solar), or does this point to incorrect metering / configuration?
I have multi scenarios I am trying to reconcile in my head.
Has anyone who uses both the iphone and ipad versions of the tesla app noticed a difference in the reported status? The left screenshot is the iphone correctly reporting that the PW is being charged, and the right is the ipad incorrectly showing a drained PW and not charging. 2 different ipads show the same wrong info.
I have a 14 kwh system and two PW3, and two model Ys. in the winter we don't have enough, but in the Spring I am sending back to the grid and getting jack for it. NEM 3.0 is terrible.
What are others doing with their excess solar? I wish I could be at home everyday, but I have to leave and commute to work, what are others doing with their excess solar that can be at least some what beneficial, nothing boils me like SCE paying 0.00 for my electricity! Especially since they charge me an arm and a leg all year long.
I just got my project design and cost. The expansion pack is $5900 and installation is $6200. Is this crazy? I have a Powerwall 3 and the site survey guy and design will put the expansion right next to the PW3. I'm trying to see if this pricing is normal?
I recently downloaded the Netzero app and while observing the kWh sell price I noticed it was 55 cents per hour. This price per kWh at 5pm seems unrealistic? Is this something others with SCE ToU Prime have ever experienced?
Seems if I sell the energy stored in my powerwall, when I run out, I'd just have to buy it back from the power company. Why would I do that?
