Recent content by Boatguy

My EVs sit 3' from the PWs and are on the same account, but they are on a separate meter. My concern is that Tesla is connecting dots that shouldn't be connected. I've set the threshold to 10% so they should charge anyway, but it smells like an example of Tesla arrogance since they didn't...

The app has a setting for Vehicle Charging during a power outage. How does the app know if my car is charging from a Powerwall?

OK. That's all interesting information. Can someone connect the dots and tell me why, when the solar is powering the house, a power company glitch shows up at the wall outlet? Or maybe we don't know because we don't know the nature of the glitch (frequency, voltage, etc.)?

@cwied: I'm not sure what "synchronize to the grid" means. I think the presence of the PWs was probably irrelevant since they were fully charged and their backup switch was not triggered. But the solar panels were feeding the house and the grid which I assume they do by having a slightly...

I have Tesla solar and two PWs. My PG&E service is notoriously "glitchy". PGE does some sort of switching which will cause a momentary drop or spike in my service. Over a period of five years this caused a series of failures in audio equipment power supplies. Finally I installed line...

I had a similar problem with my house. Same size, three stories and some skylights. My home has used about 700kWh / month this year, excluding car charging (separate panel and meter). I live in Sausalito which gets a lot of fog and morning overcast. I ended up with a small Tesla system and...

Solar + PW. I signed whatever Tesla sent me, then they sent an application to PG&E. I have not touched the system to turn it on or off nor do I intend to; it's Tesla's responsibility. I also couldn't reconcile how they don't see what I see on the app. That said, I've had two Model S cars and...

This is a new install and when the installation crew departed they said "your system is on and working". So until a few hours ago I did not know about the PTO. Tesla did say the system isn't producing anything, which is apparently what they see, but it's not what I see. PTO or none, the...

Maybe I have the problem reported by @MorrisonHiker . These were the numbers from yesterday: Home usage: 11.3 From Grid: 7.7 From PW: 4 Solar: 6.2 Net from solar / PW = 3.6 That suggests the efficiency of the solar + PW is just 58% or that the reporting is...

OK. Thanks for all the info. The house measurement is zero at times, but not all the time. It's 4:20pm now and the app shows 0.3kW from solar going straight into the house. So I'm not sure the CTs are entirely incorrectly wired as they do measure current to the house. For example when the...

CTs?

Certainly. I guess I could go out and look at the meter when it says it's going to the grid and see what the meter says.

When you say "near full" is that 80% or 95%?

Software version 1.44.4. The PWs are in my garage which is maybe 60˚F. At this moment the PWs are 81% full, the app reports 1.8kW from the solar panels with 0.5kW going to the grid and 1.2kW going to the PWs. It shows nothing going to the house, which if frequently reports. During the day...

PG&E's net metering is awful so I'd like to keep my power to myself. I have a small solar array and two PWs. This raises two questions: 1) I've set my controller to "self-powered", but it keeps feeding power back to the grid when the PWs are not full. This morning the PWs are at 79% and...