Recent content by Ulmo

What's mine? 11:00 was >2.4 and 11:10 was ~2.4, just looking at these screenshots. ~2.4 seems like the dip (note the rounding was different, so the first ones added to 2.5, but the second ones added to 2.4, but both absolute numbers rounded to 2.4, so the latter was probably less). Units in...

Mine sure did. My two PW2's used to be able to handle a 6kW electric dryer starting without a glitch, and now they definitely cannot, dumping the whole house. Also, they used to seamlessly smooth any kind of grid problem; now, they momentarily drop electricity to the whole house while...

That doesn't seem anywhere near right. 250VACrms is the nominal voltage, and 125VACrms the nominal split voltage. I've seen our actual VACrms closer to 254 on many sunny days for several hours, and I've even seen it around 256. Half of that would be 128VACrms. Your chart says anything above...

I see your load go up at 2:20PM to 8kW. What's your PW max output? Mine used to be more resilient, but now when I put a huge load like an electric dryer on to them, they no longer can handle the startup, and just shut the whole house down. Now whenever I'm in off-grid mode, I go flip the...

Is it possible to install a one-way isolator that prevents any export to the grid but does allow grid to come into the system and allows an "oversized" system that is not technically grid-tied? More and more this is seeming like the best idea with all the restrictions grid providers impose. I...

WOW! That wasn't in the brochure!

Interesting threads in those tweets. I don't recommend anyone read them who doesn't like to see the regulation sausages made.

Video about Ford Lightning charging at Tesla stops:

Soooooooo tempting, but wow, that's expensive, unless you live in a hot climate 100.00% of the year. Anywhere else, that could balloon to hundreds of thousands of dollars expensive, once all the water heaters and home heating is installed, if it has a nice geothermal pipe network installation...

I agree. PW3 inverter stats seem almost unbelievably better for a major product from a large manufacturer (almost double the LRA start and more than double the inverter continuous power rating of PW2 and this neat two foot flood resistance feature, plus multiple solar MPP inputs). The maximum...

2? I have 2 PW2's as well as 5.6kW nominal solar since 2017 (some stats at Solar, Battery, Home and Grid PowerFlow until they disabled LAN access), and for me, that's a woefully undersized system (i.e., it does not cover 100% of my usage on a cold dark winter day for no electric cars, much less...

I received this $1,000 discount text for any of the S3XY models from Tesla because I am an early CyberTruck reservation holder: (For keyword search, I'll also include the phone number without the country code: 9498688955.) I think I put the reservation in within a day or a week of the reveal...

Why does Tesla winter test their cars in New Zealand rather than USA? USA has several mountains with snow on them, and several states where it snows a lot. It seems counterproductive to avoid working with the primary customer base and readying the local facilities and instead spend a lot of...

I haven't looked at Tesla, Lucid, and NACS closely for a long time, but from afar, to me it seems logical that Lucid would adopt NACS immediately, even offering a competent retrofit option. Is their board ruled by logic, by any chance? I have no insight into that. Hopefully, there's enough...

I'm looking for a place to put this post I already put elsewhere, and this seems like a somewhat relevant thread. Here goes: China information video maker Serpentza did an interesting piece on yet more China corruption, this time about EV ponzi schemes possibly setting up to cause undue...