Recent content by wwu123

500k miles is for no Tesla new or old. The post Musk made in 2019 was really referencing 1500 charge cycles per Model 3 battery module before it degrades, unfortunately entire packs (comprised of more than a dozen modules) fail for any number of reasons, including cell failure within a module...

Aren't cool spring days the time when spot energy prices tend to go negative in California, i.e. abundance of solar and lack of energy need for heating/cooling? Makes total sense to store the excess in batteries rather than "selling" at a negative price - well, that's true in general, but...

How does one tell if it's a original Gen 1 vs the later Gen 1? I bought a secondhand Gen 1 back in 2019, and I did download a couple of different manuals I found online - I notice now that one manual doesn't show a 90A dipswitch setting, the other does. But since I've only used mine at 24A...

Congrats! I'm curious if you observed the installation, and whether they indeed just kept in place your existing controller/gateway, and whether any other components/boxes were either added or removed (aside from the 5 batteries of course)... If mainly just adding the 5P's, hope you got a...

I'd also guess it's a dying 12V battery. My elderly parents don't drive much, 11K miles on 2018 M3 LR, and often car sits for 7-10 days at a time. Like you, typically very low vampire drain while it's sitting in their garage, but a few years ago they suddenly saw huge vampire drain - only...

I have to honestly admit that though I've frequented the Chipotle, Panera and other food on the other end of this shopping complex, I've never visited this bagel shop nor the CVS, and have entirely never realized there was a parking area over here! My guess is that all 12 will be in one row...

I hadn't yet seen this thread, so imagine my shock when I was waiting on the road here to turn right into the parking lot, glance to my right and see three white Supercharger cabinets staring right back at me! This will be the closest Supercharger to home by travel distance (not that I...

Surprised by the amount of snow in the photos, aren't the cherry blossoms supposed to start blooming there next week? Last year we visited Tokyo in early April and was already well past the peak bloom...

About par for this stretch of El Camino, the one slightly north at San Antonio Rd has been sitting a few months longer, as well as maybe the one a bit south in Sunnyvale...

Maybe the used Bolt's are not worth much for resale, but my friend who has one of the early vintage models like yours was ecstatic to get a brand-new battery last year due to the recall - so more than satisfied to keep using it for years to come on his commute (which is what he's always done...

I actually stumbled across the MCE app when exploring alternatives to Charge on Solar (since I don't have a Powerwall), even though I'm in SVCE land. Again the SVCE Gridshift is so poorly reviewed, I dare not even try it. So even though the MCE one says you have to be a MCE customer, I wonder...

One small caveat with the single-purpose apps like the MCE one that need access to your Tesla account - in this case to not just control your car's charging but presumably also to monitor the car's battery level: Often the programmers are just programming to many API's, in this case to the...

I'm not a super expert on insurance, but it seems to me as long as he paid for minimal insurance, you're fully covered, because YOUR own insurance will pay you everything but your collision deductible, and then when your insurance goes after his insurance, they'll recover at least enough for...

There was a Sunset magazine design house smack-dab in SF's MIssion District about 15 years ago, that had a working wind turbine on the roof, partially visible here: Not a huge one, but working nonetheless - not sure how much energy it could produce though. A beautiful modern home, but...

Thanks for finding those - the first one is probably what I've been looking around for, I think, with the suggestion of adding a pre-charge circuit. I would get me to 960W, there's no 20A input limit, just output limit, is that correct? The second one again is too small for my use case, 15A...