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Yeah I've been wondering that myself. I've got a junction box near the roof, then nothing else till the inverter. I've seen the inverter wiring, it's not being combined there... none of the wiring is in the attic for us.

How is the build going?

That's what I was afraid of. I have a delta M8, 3 strings, I think they probably should have wired up my 2x23 tile strings in parallel to 1x MPPT, they are both on the garage roof very close to each other with no shading issues. Then the lower roof 35 tiles could be on its own MPPT, and the...

There is a lot of shade on my lower roof. I've been seeing things like this where production jumps up at 8 and 2, with dips at 9 and 1, due to shade on the lower roof from my chimney in the AM, and the upper roof in the PM.

I'm still trying to get real time monitoring.

6.8kW total. I didn't realize shade on one parallel string messed up the other. How much of an impact is it? Just an efficiency decrease or a total reduction? They didn't send me the design before installation (or even during installation) so I didn't know until after I got PTO. I guess...

6.8kW total. I didn't realize shade on one parallel string messed up the other. How much of an impact is it? Just an efficiency decrease or a total reduction? They didn't send me the design before installation (or even during installation) so I didn't know until after I got PTO. I guess...

I just made 2 payments on my tesla solar roof using 2 separate credit cards. Billing rep was the nicest person I've worked with at Tesla! I was a little anxious about doing payments over the phone, if any one else is nervous about it, don't be, they are very friendly and it's really easy...

Any interest in solar roof? You can get an instant quote for exactly the size of system you want from the website based on tweaking the "cost of electricity" input. I feathered my system to a target cost, above our "need" based on current usage. Before installing we were using ~7,000kWh/yr...

Mine was very similar, I have a super string with two 35 tile strings in parallel as PV1, then two smaller 24 tile strings for PV2/ PV3 on a 3 string system.

Did you call or email? Calling always worked best for me.

My wife absolutely refused to have solar panels on the front of our house (facing SW) so a solar roof was the only possible way to get solar that would provide a payback in a reasonable amount of time and produce what we needed.

They will keep the bathroom vents. Whirly vents got replaced on my roof with a ridge vent which is better!

Remove it now, put the new one on the ground, then get solar roof.

Thanks, my request went all the way up to the Tesla resolutions department, we will see what they say.

Wow, that is a cool dashboard! So with the generation data and net metering you can figure out total usage? How do you get the Tesla generation data? I have a delta inverter so won't get data from solar edge...

Yup, that's my struggle right now, I'm in between. They designed my system a month or two before they announced the Tesla inverter, and they ran out of power Blasters that run on zigbee (supposedly), so because of the timing I don't have access to features that be installs using the Tesla...

Do you think this would work with a delta inverter? I've been told that I can't get a neurio because they discontinued the zigbee ones, and am wondering if the wifi one needs a tesla inverter or if it could connect directly to my home wifi.

Nice you have CTs. I can't get Tesla to give me CTs because I didn't get a power wall...

Mine app is pretty buggy, often to get instantaneous output readings I have to switch to yesterday's readings and then back to today. Then it pops back. Sometimes I have to restart the app to get readings...

I ended up cutting my trees down due to this issue with a delta M8 inverter. Once installed it will be hard to get them to change it. How much shade do you have? What is it caused by?

Wow, that's a really long time! I think they are finally done with my roof! Ropes are gone as of 10am this morning!

Haha, the anchors stay under the panels. I've been trying to figure out how to access them after Tesla removes the rope. The rope right now is covering up some of my solar panels, so it may be lowering my output.

I have a 7.68kW solar roof with a delta M8 8kW inverter. Could someone explain DC to AC ratio to me? Why would a system clip? I'm not sure what my ratio is, and if it matters in my case.

So we got PTO from SDG&E weeks ago, but still have ropes on the roof and the Tesla quality engineer keeps finding things that need fixing. Has this happened to anyone else?

Same in California, inspection was only if the solar.

True, you'd need to run a sprinkler per panel, not ideal.

Yup, 2 stories. I used the Tesla security rope, they're still not done yet so that made it easier. Agreed, I wouldn't go up without a harness, I wish there was a way to rig a harness rope up to self coil when I'm not using it haha...

Good to know! We had saw dust from trees that were cut down recently which is why I went up to clean. I agree, once I get a good baseline, and there aren't special events that get the roof really dirty, I probably won't be up there much.

We had a similar roof, and tiles cracked every time someone went up there, including roofers! That's one reason why we decided on the solar roof. Could you plumb a sprinkler type system to spray water up there? It would only require you to climb up to install it once, then you could just turn...

Mine doesn't have anything populated for solar production issues, I wonder how long you have to have the system before those options appear.

Looks like it just started working for me today too

Exciting! Our permit came through in 2 weeks, plan on tear off and install taking 3-4 times longer than advertised.

This is good to know, I wanted to pay via credit card, but it isn't an option via the online payment system. I'll try calling.

Cool, seems like you're doing well then, did you check PVWatts?

I have the solar roof so that's not an option for me. Good thing it rained today!

I don't know, for me in San Diego, I went from 25kWh to 28kWh per day by wiping down half of my panels... that's a big difference!

How high up are they? Can you just spray them from a ladder?

That's interesting. I actually really like the current dark tiles. I agree, that brown is not appealing, at least from the sky. Wonder what that would look like from the ground. They are the large size as well, so not so easy to make look like traditional roof shingles.

Haha I almost crashed it when taking some shots, I thought I was above my trees, but I had taken off from a different spot than usual so my altitude reading was off by over 5 feet and I backed the drone into the tree. I somehow got it out of the branches before it hit the ground and it was able...

Could be hard to see with a drone, my drone gets angry if I get it to close to the roof!

What is the wattage of your panels? What is the total wattage of your system? Based on that you can determine if you're getting a ratio that makes sense or not. ~3:1 ratio at this time of year is good, so if your system is 400w panels, 42 panels is 16.8kW, x3 is 50.4kWh daily, which is around...

Probably not, no BB guns on our block.

It seemed like damage from a short to me too. It is an interesting pattern! Definitely on the replacement list.

Fair enough, sounds like a great part of your property. Ours didn't fit the front yard theme anyways so made sense to remove.

Great news!

I don't think the city inspects the roof here, but Tesla has a quality inspector on their side. He continues to have findings, which haven't been addressed yet.

I'm in San Diego too, and I did not get one installed either. I escalated to the resolutions team, we will see what they say.

For solar roof, cash payment, 100% payment is due 5 days after "final inspection" (other than the $100 deposit). They sent me an invoice after the city inspected the solar portion, but my roof was still not done. We had ropes on the roof, and multiple items that weren't complete (vents, ridge...

Yup, I already asked for a new tile. I am still picking up pieces of glass, there was at least 1 that shattered on my roof, and the pieces ran under the others, so when it rains or the wind blows hard enough more get knocked out of the roof onto the ground...