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Yes - installed the Span in October. Has been running very well since. Came in handy already shortly afterwards - we left the country, and then there was a nasty storm with a 24hr power outage while we were away. I was able to remotely shut down unnecessary circuits so as to prolong the backup...

We've decided to move forward with the Span install - happening this week. Biggest concern was the company may go out of business, or may update their system to some radical new architecture and then halt support of older systems, etc. Learned that the panel can default to just a basic panel if...

Just yesterday: "The Forged Performance Wheels for Model 3 are not yet available but are expected to move through production during the coming months. We expect they will be available for widespread installations early this year."

Thule Motion XT XL works well as well.

It was advertised as 3.5 initially.

Yes, decided not to stack the three. To stack requires floor mounting and we have a concrete shoulder/lip on the garage floor that would require 3" spacers to bring the walls to match this offset, and I want to maximize the usable floor space in the garage. If triple stacked, there would be a...

Thanks. The cost is significantly lower if doing it at the same time as the other two, as installation cost is essentially included and we get full ITC credit of 30%. ITC phase-out beings end of this year.

Congrats! --> Let's hope your system all goes in before the end of year. My system is currently on pause - this was self inflicted. Just a head's up for you, that this caused unforseen delays of at least ~4 weeks for my project. I threw a wrench in right about the time they were finished...

For ours, on the rear side of the pitched roof, it transitions to a flat foam roof section. For this transition on the lower edge of the roof, they stopped the tiles two rows before and used flashing material along the length of the edge. The flashing is formed sheet metal, appears to be...

We are doing a "Max Solar" install, where the solar coverage is about 70% of total tile area. Roof size is relatively small.

Yes, this is V2.

A folding ladder carefully straddling over the apex of the pitched roof should do the trick. The ladder opens up to match exactly the angle of the roof pitch. This is what I did for the shake roof before.

The surface of the tiles is slippery, similar to that of a metal or slate roof, so walking on the roof is not recommended. They are easily strong enough to support the weight, but quite slippery. Previous roof was shake, and it, too was quite slippery when moist due to moss growth etc - I used...

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Can you elaborate more on this? I just ordered two, and am having them installed within the next few days.

Here are before and after pictures. The aftershot was taken the day before the finishing touches were done (ridge, cleaning etc). The two pictures were taken within 5 days from each other.

Here's a picture of some of the shingle/tile interconnects. The inverters have yet to be installed. Roof's pretty much done. Next step is the underbelly stuff (RSD's [Rapid Shut Down], Inverters, Gateway). That yellow thingy with the nose-ring is an anchor point for one of their safety harnesses.

Will find out soon - having two Powerwalls installed this week.

Update - they are almost finished with the Tesla Solar Roof install. Roof looks amazing. Next step will be the 2 PowerWalls.

I'd rather not go into exact costs, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that the cost was on par with that of a new (high end) roof, plus solar panels. I made a comparison spreadsheet where I itemized seven different quotes.

They have not installed the inverters yet. All components were chosen by the Tesla Solar Roof design team.

Update on the install: very impressed so far. Professional, responsive. The PV tiles are going up.

Production estimate is listed in mine as well.

From my perspective, they're still very much in the early phases of determining a financing partner. The folks I got hooked up with did not work out well at all.

West San Jose - South "SF Bay Area"

Ahh gotcha - it is not implicitly stated in that way. Understandably so, however, seeing as weather would be a significant factor. Weather seems to be getting more and more unpredictable these days. But based on the guaranteed output efficiency mentioned earlier, there is an output guarantee...

--> Yes They guarantee the solar production of the tiles for 30 years. 95% first five years, declining no more than 0.5% per year for the remaining 25 years totaling 82.5% of Rated Peak Power at end of 30 years. Glass Tiles are warranted forever ('The glass in your Solar Roof will not chip...

The process took a while for us... Made the $1k deposit back in May 2017. First Contact was Oct 2018. Got serious in Feb 2019 Got really serious in May 2019. Paid $2.5k commit deposit. Went back and forth on financing options. Tear roof apart in August 2019.

This is for a Tesla Solar Roof, so it can be scaled based on a much finer resolution, I believe. We came about this 10kW system because it was rated to be our "max solar" amount, based on our estimated usage.

We decided to go for a 10kW system, with whole house backup with the two PowerWalls. Let's hope the install goes smoothly. We realized that covering everything before the demolition, both inside, and outside, was an important step to help prevent any damge or debris from getting all over the...

Hello All, Just wanted to chime in here to say that I've pulled the trigger - going for a complete system: Solar Roof plus qty 2 Powerwall 2's. Installation is happening this week!