Hi All,
I've got a house in a place with frequent outages, so I had 3 PowerWall 3's go in today, it'll give me a few days of power, as I don't have solar. I need a new roof in a couple of years, so I'm delaying any kind of solar until then, but the complication is that I have 3 different roof planes where solar panels would go, and giant redwoods would be covering some part of the roof at all times. This is where you need microinverters or optimizers, since your whole string produces as much power as the lowest producing panel in the string. The installer told me that Tesla isn't supporting the PW3 with either optimizers or microinverters. Does anyone know anything about this? It's kinda lame if true, because I'd have argued for a PW2 install had I know this, ah well. I'm hoping each PW3 can drive a separate panel string on each portion of the roof.
I have a PW2 as well, in a different house, and that thing is super versatile. It doesn't care what your solar array looks like, and when there is an outage, it simply absorbs any excess energy into the battery. It doesn't need to know where this even comes from, so during long outages, I drive a bunch of solar inverters with a generator and the powerwall charges off those just fine. I'm hoping the PW3 can behave this flexibly too. It doesn't need to know solar is there as long as it can store excess energy from battery inverter side.
I've got a house in a place with frequent outages, so I had 3 PowerWall 3's go in today, it'll give me a few days of power, as I don't have solar. I need a new roof in a couple of years, so I'm delaying any kind of solar until then, but the complication is that I have 3 different roof planes where solar panels would go, and giant redwoods would be covering some part of the roof at all times. This is where you need microinverters or optimizers, since your whole string produces as much power as the lowest producing panel in the string. The installer told me that Tesla isn't supporting the PW3 with either optimizers or microinverters. Does anyone know anything about this? It's kinda lame if true, because I'd have argued for a PW2 install had I know this, ah well. I'm hoping each PW3 can drive a separate panel string on each portion of the roof.
I have a PW2 as well, in a different house, and that thing is super versatile. It doesn't care what your solar array looks like, and when there is an outage, it simply absorbs any excess energy into the battery. It doesn't need to know where this even comes from, so during long outages, I drive a bunch of solar inverters with a generator and the powerwall charges off those just fine. I'm hoping the PW3 can behave this flexibly too. It doesn't need to know solar is there as long as it can store excess energy from battery inverter side.