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I just talked to a friend who talked to my installer. He told them he has heard insurance companies are dropping folks who have Tesla powerwalls? Any truth?

When I drove yesterday, I started to play some with how fast I was driving vs range. On the way down I drove 60 mph, and on the way back 55 mph. I could see that estimate for charge left increase when driving slower than my normal 73 mph But is there a way to up front adjust the highway speeds...

I have been tracking my daily PGE use for years and years. I went to check today, and the last recording April 29th, and nothing sense. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior? Weird, since I have changed nothing. Was wanting to see how the EV charging at night nailed the numbers.

I just got 3 if my 5 gets 3 wall connectors installed and shared. But the are not working as I expected. I assumed they would draw the max from a unit and only throttle back if multiples were charging and hit the limit I set limit to 100 amps. But it would only allow 33 amps even though the...

Well, am testing new things with my setup. I bought my first Model Y last week, and today is the first day I am charging. My 5 EV ports are wired between my main panel and the gateways, so there is no ability to see the charging pull from the app. I have one set of panels recharging the...

My phone and case is too large to fit on the MY charging pad. Any suggestions on modifications to improve?

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-unveils-cybertruck-ev-charger/ So, what is the info on this? Do I need to return my Gen 3 wall connector?

Okay, we just picked up our model Y. We went to try the wireless phone charging. On my friends smaller phone, it fits and works. But on my wifes and mine, we have the Samsung S23 ultra, and it does not fit in the slot, so does not charge. Has anyone found a way to modify with something so we can...

Just ordered a Model Y, and hope to pickup Monday. But since the car does not come with a charger, where can I buy a new Tesla Mobile Connector charger?

Thinking of adding an electric hot water heater in my system, since have so much free electricity. I would add it before my existing propane hot water heater. But, I want to find a product that also has a heat exchange loop in it so I can tie it into my spa heating loop. Any leads? I have...

My current setup has a 400A service, with two 200A breakers. I had this wired into various GW and ATS stuff to feed the two 200A subpanels I have. The downside to this is the batteries are split, and the generator will not automatically come on if I lose one bank of batteries to one subpanel...

Am starting to play with what is the actual numbers for my house relating to how much I have, vs could it meet code spec for a 200A feed. Just not clear what to use. What I see when using a few heads seems a lot less that things I see. Below is one of my compressors. I just seem things like max...

Since I am playing with my setup with solar, batteries and a generator, trying to see how to make things work with the least amount of hand holding since I am finding out my system is so complex, things do not work as I was thinking, or hoping. Now, if tesla had a 400 amp gateway, my issues go...

Well, decided to try a test of my solution before the next big storm hits Calif tonight. For folks who follow me, I have basically two systems setup for my house wihere I have a 400 amp service with 2 200 amp subpanels. I have 2 gateways, and two ATS for the generator wired in. So the first...

Since I just got my true up and gave PGE 5200 bucks worth of solar, and they only are giving me back like 700, I am just asking, has anyone heard of a homeowner putting in a EV charging setup to charge folks?

After months of not getting anything on my true up, my third adjustment, I just got the long forms in the mail. I ended up with True up total net usage (kWh): -14,930 Charge amount, -5,193.24 Nuts. Looks like my total bill summary is -718.14 Yep, NOT worth being a net generator. But am...

Since I just got my new batteries installed yesterday, and my heaters are now turned on, with the less solar this time of the year, they are not getting charged back to 100%. And since my grid charging did not seem to work, I have been calling for a while. So I called again this morning, and...

V3 just finished adding 2 more batteries, so I now have 7. Still no grid charging working. And I now have more disconnects. So next step, final from the inspector, then PGE.

I have solar edge inverters. I have 3 strings per inverter. What is the best way to determine how many panels are on each string? I can see the total, but do not seem to be able to see how many per string. My only thought was to turn off the inverter, and I guess could I measure each strong...

So, this seems to be a much cheaper and great capacity solution than batteries? I am trying to find cost of charger and specs to hook up. https://www.carscoops.com/2022/09/nissan-approves-charger-that-can-draw-energy-from-leaf-to-power-your-home/ More than simply a generator, the...

Yesterday your Grass Valley Fire Fighters assisted the Nevada County Consolidated Fire Department with the extinguishment of a roof top fire involving solar panels. The home owner was able to hold the fire in check until crews could arrive and secure the system and extinguish the fire and ensure...

I installed my EV charger lines in front of my gateway, so I guess this is called a non backed load? When we plugged in a tesla and charged it, I could not see the 7kw pull. I saw it on my meter. So, is there any way to add something so that the tesla apps sees the total load being drawn?

Amazing what a nice clear, cool, clean sun can do. I have finally clipped both of my inverters now for 22.82kw output. I just LOVE being 99.9% immune to any energy cost increases! Put on the solar, forget the batteries!!

So, articles has said PGE will have some V2H pilot programs now. Anyone see anything? Which cars? I guess we are still having to wait for how knows how long. If I could get a V2H car, for 30K, might buy one. I care less about V2G.

Even though my batteries were installed by v3 electric, tesla says sunrun is the recorded co, and they do not have an agreement with PGE, so would not enable grid charging. Anyone else have grid charging with a sunrun install?

So, getting closer to wiring up some stuff from my solar setup for EV charging. Currently looking at driving a 200 amp split into another 200 amp panel in my garage. Then running 5 6 awg on 60 amp breakers to 5 locations in the garage. Was going to get tesla gen 3's, but since I do not have a...

Boy does it make a difference when we are in a drought, solar does great. Hitting 3MWh's for March is nuts. Will I ever hit 5, time will tell?

Reading articles like this is why I am SO SO glad I converted my house to 99% electric, and went nuts on solar since I am basically 100% off the grid for most of the year. and for the months I am not, I have so much credit, my net true up is real real negative. :) Too bad I only get at best...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/28/why-electric-vehicles-are-a-bad-investment/?fbclid=IwAR3IV0QvKaFuvnOrWA_klve9VOCu7YwkhzSvPQzFWeCTPzG3hnpsUi1sbLY

Okay experts. it is that time of the year where solar production has kicked up. I currently have my PW's at 50% for winter use. But now, even though I still use plenty for my heat pumps, and the batteries recharge pretty quickly, am I better off stay like this, sending lots back to PGE, or...

2 years ago when my water heater died, my solar guys said I should just put a gas water heater back in. No idea why, but that is what we did. but now that I have SO much excess solar, and looks like NEM2 for a long time, I am just wondering if there is any payback at all to replacing my gas...

Looks like my thermistor for my solar hot water to spa heating loop has died. So far no luck find a replacement let alone what to call it. Since this group as lots of experts and leads. Below is a picture of what I am trying to replace.

I have one of my PW's to 100%, but the other for some reason is only at 86 and sending most back to the grid. And at 4 is goes 100% battery. Any ideas what maybe going on?

Man is it great for solar to have no rain so fair in Feb. Solar is way higher than expected. How are others doing?

I continue to want to add some EV charging circuits to my garage, BUT, trying to find out if what I want to do can even be coded. If not, need to change direction. I have a 400 amp feed, 200amp per subpanel setups. One 200amp feed goes into my garage subpanel. It has my 4 heat pump...

I just did another, as I have done many times, a FW update to my 2 solar edge inverters. Even though the light is green and blue, neither are making any solar output now. :( I powered them both down, and threw the breaker, and fired them back up. Nothing, no output. Oh well, of course they...

I had a 5 hour outage the other day and ran off batteries. After power was restored, most of my grid based clocks had to be reset. Some had gained minutes. Anyone else see this?

(moderator note - split off from another thread on minimum amps needed) If one had to upgrade, why not consider going to a 400 amp service

Had my first power outage with this storm and it look like my batteries kicked in. My computer seems to have rebooted so might need to get a UPS. But, where can I tell how long it went out for?

Just got notice storm watch just enabled.

So, if the power goes down, the gateway knows to never try to send power back to the grid. If the batteries are full, it shuts down the inverter. So, can we get the fw changed in the gateway so it NEVER can feed back power to the grid. Then we can go back and tell PGE we have no solar capable...

CPUC supposed to make solar NEM3 recommendation today. Any word on status?

Any rumors of a Gen 4 wall charger?

I have been running my batteries in balanced mode, with 4pm where I kick in peak. Been working great. So, we just have fall back time change last night, and the batteries behave as if it is 4pm, but it is only 3pm. So, how does the sw adjust itself to deal with a time change? Is there...

I currently have a propane heater on my Spa. But with a large solar array with excess generation, I would like to consider added some type of electric heating/ heat pump to my spa. Has anyone done anything like this? What is the most efficient type of electric heat?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/prepare-for-propane-sticker-shock-11635026109?fbclid=IwAR2H901Vov2M32fw6jGB6c4dHwPiQlz0-I2-v1E2IFKLOQnYful1Y6i3cts

Family trip car? This is why I would never get one. Drove to Disneyland and back with 7 folks and luggage in a minivan. 3 gas stops, total like 5 minutes each. NO way we could do that with ANY EV on the market...

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I just got one GW updated to 21.35.0 Wonder what this does?

Looking at adding EV charging to my garage. Will probably run a 100 amp sub panel there first. So, what is the best Tesla charger for the home? Is it the Gen 3 wall connector? Any rumor of something better coming out? I might want to wire up 3 charging stations in my garage?