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You're being so cryptic about it. Just state what it is. Whether or not you disclose the mystery now or by your chosen deadline isn't going to change the fact that there is or is not a hardware flaw that can electrocute someone tomorrow or next week, or if Tesla will need to recall or repair...

Why would anyone disassemble their own PW to corroborate your claims?

That's a big wall of text. If you don't know which wires are AC or DC, you should probably stop tinkering. Seems there's no point to measuring all the wires you want to. You should just get a clamp meter if you want to troubleshoot something, and a Kill A Watt to plug into an outlet. If you...

I've had them since the beginning. Never notice them unless I look in the app.

No, your math or modeling is wrong. You cannot pick a good day's production and multiply that value to estimate a year's production. Just like you can't pick an hour's production, let's say at high noon in May, and multiply that by 10h/d to estimate daily production. In May, you might get...

Ok then, I hope they spied on my house last year when my premium went up, from $3000 to $4000 per year.

Are we supposed to report solar install to home insurance company? Do they regularly drive around to each of their insured properties to do cursory inspections for new additions?

It looks more rugged for outdoors but less fancy for indoors? Does it have vents, fans, and active cooling?

For GW, you can log in as installer and for each CT there's a checkbox option to 2x the CTs on the 240V circuits.

It‘s the Oregon state tax credit that made it crazy cheap. My 8.16kW install done by Tesla was $16400 minus 26% tax credit, no CA state incentive.

You're missing the daily rotation of the earth that causes the sun to move across the sky. A 400W solar panel will only produce its maximum power at ideal conditions and the sun is perpendicular to it.

Mother nature cleaning was free.

Here's production numbers before and after cleaning of my 8.16kW panels via Hurricane Hilary, similar temp low 90F. So about 5-6% difference. Before: After:

Agreed. Your early numbers were wrong. A 11.2kW system, at this time of the year, under ideal conditions and panel orientation, would produce maybe 65-70kwh at most.

Super cool use of thermal imaging to diagnose non-producing panels.

My inverter has no neutral. The PW does.

There was someone who recently posted that the dropouts in the graphs were fixed after they installed a wifi access point or extender near their PW/Gateway, making it seem like the dropouts were simply missing data points due to no data uploaded to Tesla from poor wifi reception.

No it is not clipping. You won't reach the rated 11kW unless the panels and sun are perfectly aligned and the temperature is 77F. There is efficiency loss as temp goes up.

Also curious as to why your main house A/C isn't backed up. 125A limit? Typically A/C is the biggest power draw and running them off the battery during peak hours is a good way to avoid peak rates. And in case of prolonged power outage in hot weather like today, there's plenty of sun to...

You can get or borrow a clamp meter to measure AC output of the inverters. You can measure the solar input also.

I assume it's the same as the inverter? Instructions are in the link above. Basically open up the door on the inverter to get the inverter's wifi password, reboot the inverter, connect to it's wifi, browse to 192.168.92.1, then you can see startup and production info.

Look at the green status light on each PW, solid and pulsating to see that they get fully charged and are all discharging.

Do you have the Tesla inverter? If so, log in to it and see what the string readouts are at peak sunlight. Simplest explanation is you have a string of 8 panels and a string of 4 panels. Open the door on the inverter to verify. Your production in May of this year vs last year is down by 2/3...

NEM 1.0 $300/mo avg electric bill vs. NEM 3.0 $306/mo x 25 years (that's $92,000) + monthly NBC costs? Invest in index fund, charge the car during off-peak hours, and turn up the thermostat.

Also if there's still sunlight outside after 4pm, solar will send 100% of its production to the grid so you get credit at the $0.50/kwh rate while the PW discharges to your house.

Yes you need a Gateway. Arbitrage is when you charge the PW with solar when electric rates are cheap, then use the PW to power your house when rates are high. For example, between 8am-11am, electric rate is $0.20/kwh so your solar production is sent to charge the PW and then send power to the...

Or just turn the inverter and PW off, cover however they cover, and paint.

In the screen prior to that where you log in, select installer option from the drop box rather than customer. If you wanted to DIY fix it yourself, you'd probably need open the Gateway box also and see if the software is configured correctly to the way the CTs are physically connected, and also...

If they really need to sell these Powerwalls and save the planet, they really need to ship them directly to the house and make installation cheap. All I essentially need to add a third PW in the garage next to the two already there are a wall bracket to hang the new unit, some conduit pipe they...

Here’s my timeline https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/powerwall-died-dc-stage-fault.260160/

Solar panels disconnected? Loose wire somewhere?

Got the email. Doesn’t let me order and ship directly to my house. Still have to go through installer.

Kudos to the owners for caring more about being truly green and having a self-sustaining electrical generation and storage system than watering some prickly decorative plants.

I have Lutron Caseta and Maestro dimmers with Feit decorative LED chandelier bulbs from Home Depot in various places throughout the house. They dim will and no buzzing. Also they come in 3000K color temp, it's a good balance between too red/yellow of 2700K and too blue of 5000K. Used to have...

It's pretty impossible without having a giant array and dozen batteries. During May gray's three weeks of no sun at all, solar only made enough to recharge the batteries and avoid peak rates, but otherwise the grid was necessary to meet daily needs.

One benefit of solar+powerwall is not having to adjust your lifestyle or daily habits.

Unless microinverters have really bad efficiency, you're about 10% off of peak and power production compared to me. Maybe 2-3 panels aren't working. edit: Oh SolarEdge optimizers, not microinverter. Perhaps one of them is bad.

Contrary to what others have said above, on a fully sunny day with warm temps and clear skies, it's easy to get close to the limit of the inverter as your setup looks similar to mine except I have the Tesla inverter. Also, my contract estmates 13,300kwh annual production. Seems like your...

The tech who came to diagnose my dead battery said it was a "pod failure" but didn't know what it meant, but he did mention he'd seen pod failures before. Guess it's related to whatever POD means.

I let it roll over and keep the house cooler in the summer.

TLDR. Twitter and Tesla are run by the same group of people who reply to serious questions with 💩 They need to work on and improve core principles like professionalism, courteous customer service, accessible tech support, timely response times, and transparency. Because for the most common...

Same exact thing happened to me. Tesla wouldn't bother to look at my half producing system until after PTO, then it took months to get an diagnostic tech to visit after PTO, then even more time to get a crew out to connect a cable on the roof that they forgot to connect.

They need to find someone else to interview instead of this "academic" power company shill who pops up in every article about NEM.

CA utility companies already won with NEM3.0, though it didn't include fixed monthly grid access charge. Now they want their fixed monthly charge. And they'll base it on income to appear progressive and appeal to the public with decepitve marketing and PR. Then the lower kwh charges will...

First cloudless day in weeks. 8.16kW system.

My GW2 is on 22.36.8. Inverter dropped off or rebooted at 11am today.

Looks promising to me. I already have Tesla solar, inverter, GW2, and 2 PW. Presumably I can just get a 3rd PW, hang it on the wall, run a pair of AC wires and control wires to the GW2, plug them into a new circuit breaker in the GW2 and data port, and be done. And collect 30% tax credit on top.

8.6kw system

Approaching second year after installation and first day of the year with 50kWh production, clear skies after the torrential storms. My last positive electric bill was March 2021. With true-up and yearly energy rebate/credit, I haven't paid anything for last 11 months.

GE used to make a line of LED flood lights as direct replacements for GX 4-pin fluorescent lights. They work well enough, but have very dim flickering after turning off for a few minutes as the ballast denergizes. Philips has a product too, but the bulbs aren't flood light shaped, but they...