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The words "dick" and "suck" come to mind.

Again, can we quantify "good" in terms of time made to wait? How quickly does Sunrun send a tech when their virtual customer support is unable to solve problems?

Not owning an EV (Tesla or otherwise) I guess I can't advise any further. Although at least with the cars, you have the option to take them to a nearby Tesla supercharger (assuming there is one near you, and assuming they would also be working after a major quake - two big assumptions, I grant...

Ah, I misunderstood. Thank you for the clarification.

How long are you looking to hold out? Do you have any PV capacity, or just the PWs?

Well, that doesn't sound much different than Tesla. And if they're so busy installing, why can't they get their worthless asses out to fix systems that THEY ALREADY INSTALLED and ARE UNDER WARRANTY? Eager to take your money, and even more eager to ignore you after they have it.

>(I have ongoing issues with several other companies How many of these other companies are physically integrated into your home electrical system with proprietary components that only they can fix?

They support multiple options. At install time, I was told in advance that if I had an Ethernet cable in the vicinity of where the Gateway would be installed, they would use that. As it turns out, I didn't - so I was given an Zigbee-to-Ethernet adapter (I believe it is Zigbee but not 100% sure)...

Why on earth would a specific number of PWs be bad? They're wired in parallel, so the exact number doesn't really matter - the charge (and draw) is distributed equally amongst the available units. And with each incremental PW you add, it lessens the burden on the others. This is why having...

I would say it depends on the priority and value you place on energy resiliency. If having electricity during an extended (multi-day) outage is a priority for you, then yes, I would add the third PW. If not, I would skip it, for the other various cost-savings related reasons people have...

Same, at 22.9.xxx

I would strongly suggest you consider Powerwalls (or any other home battery solution, like LG, etc.) Not only does it buy you a huge amount of flexibility in terms of storing energy for cost reasons, but it buys you resiliency in the case of power outages. You need power to generate power. In...

I reserve mine at 80% because I own my PWs mainly for energy resiliency and there is no time-shifting cost savings to be had where I live in NJ. So I self-power 20% mainly to exercise the battery (slightly - lithium chemistries do not like deep discharges) and continuously monitor the system...

Basically this, yes.

All that, plus you need to account for possible failures. If you have two PWs and one fails, at least you're only down to 50% capacity. If you only have one unit and it fails, now you're down hard. Everyone seems to think of Tesla energy as bulletproof, but it isn't. I've had two major service...