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Update: Tesla claims that they did not download a new firmware. So I don't know why the inverter shutdowns stopped, and now I'm a little nervous that the problem will come back. Fingers crossed!

I had 4.8 kW of solar panels and 2 Powerwalls installed back in March, supplementing the 7.9 kW I've had for over 10 years. I've had two issues with this system, one major and one minor. MAJOR: Since installation I had frequent inverter shutdowns typically lasting 30 minutes. These would occur...

I am in the middle of a very similar situation. I have had 8kW from another company for about 10 years. In March Tesla installed another 4.8 kW, 2 PWs and another inverter, so I have my "legacy" inverter and a Tesla inverter, all connected through the "inverter combiner" and the Gateway...

I finally opened a chat with Tesla, and got service scheduled for 4 days out. However, an hour later they said it was a mistake and moved it out a full month. Then it disappeared from my app, though a chat agent told me I was still on the schedule, but that the status was "On Hold", whatever...

My PTO was about 2 months ago. From the beginning the inverter had problems, with frequent 30 minute shutdowns, sometimes 4 times a day. It took about 4 weeks of chats to finally get Tesla to agree that there was problem, and that it was not just shading or clouds. About this time the...

The app has promised "We will contact you shortly" for several days now...

I'm the original poster here. Now the inverter has completely failed. Dead. Kaput. No lights or sound, and even the cooling fan is not running. You can see where mid-morning the Tesla inverter started shutting down and restarting until it finally failed a little after noon, leaving me with...

Well, the glitches have come back. Yesterday I lost about 8 kWh out of the 30 or so I usually get from the Tesla panels, so more than 25% loss from 5 inverter outages spread through the day. The bottom of those gaps is exactly the power generation from my legacy (SMA) inverter. The Tesla panels...

I still get an occasional "dropout" like the ones shown above, but it's down to 1 or 2 times a week instead of 1 to 4 times a day. It still irritates me, but I know I'm not going to get any help from Tesla. They will say that I am still producing within the promised range, which is probably...

Tesla said: "The MPPT curve scans get stuck at a lower level and then it cycles and resolves." I had to Google "MPPT curve scans", but I'm no wiser about what caused this to happen or how they fixed it. They did state that it wasn't heat-caused. My inverter is on the south-east side of the...

Bnsuckling: Your image looks just like the issue I had for a couple of weeks. It looks like you have at least 2 inverters, and one is intermittently going out, or your inverter has two stages and one of the stages is going out. If you trace the path described by the bottom of the gaps, it...

My PTO happened later the same day that the city inspected. I assume some of the delays others have experienced were resolved before the city inspection.

The city of Tempe inspected my system on April 19, 2023. PTO was later the same day.

In Self-Powered the system would use the battery as much as possible to minimize draw from the grid. It would possibly mean not having enough to survive Peak time, and I would end up paying a higher price, besides exercising the battery more and shortening its life. Since I am grandfathered...

I couldn't see the image when I previewed and posted this. Turned out to be my ad blocker. I would have sized it a little better if I could have seen it...🤭