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I use the ethernet port on my Gateway as the primary connection - the WiFi is present and shows connection status but good old copper wire is hard to beat.

It comes down to personal preference and needs. We just gave our 2018 model 3 to another family member and got a 2024 model S. Did it for comfort (no comparison - ride is awesome) and space (no longer "sharing" the armrest is nice). Range was a modest consideration, but with superchargers...

Ordered Jan 11, delivered March 5. Had to wait for them to reprint the Munroney data to hand to me. Absolutely gorgeous look and in perfect condition. No flaws or defects noted. FSD transferred from my Model 3 while I was still in the delivery lot. firmware 2024.2.7 Ceramic coating in the...

Ordered mine January 11, delivery 10am March 5.

Ordered mine with yoke - have a delivery appointment for Tuesday morning. BTW - order date January 11.

Decided to go to the dealership where my delivery will happen (someday). Found my car sitting out back. No Munroney sticker. Wandered inside to talk to the delivery group - no way around the sticker issue - they claimed that "today was the day" that it would be resolved. Not holding my breath..

One more note - you are not required to trade in your current vehicle that has FSD - it is a simple software transfer irrespective of trade-in, sale or retention statue of the current vehicle.

I just completed all of the forms and contracts to transfer FSD from my model 3 to a new model S. Forms and request must be initiated prior to delivery of the new vehicle (in addition to the delivery requirement prior to end of March).

Activated yesterday for me - have also had transient outages as massive pieces of the grid failed nearby. (Grid failures are now greater than 24 hour duration with utility making no rational estimates of time to repair).

My grandson took his drivers test in a Bolt EV 6 days ago. It is the only car he has ever driven (we gave it to him as a present for his 18th birthday). He routinely uses the regenerative braking and one pedal driving. Passed with no comment or issues. Location - SF Bay Area.

My 10 kW system is not inverter limited and faces two planes - WSW and SSW - on different inverters. Peak production on an ideal day (cool breeze and summer sun) can occasionally produce 10 kW - but that is transient and not sustained. I have seen 11.1 a couple of times with "cloud fringing"...

Yeah - it is possible to find old shelf stock via EBay but there does not appear to be any supply of newly manufactured units.

You can charge from the grid in California ? My understanding is that the CPUC explicitly prohibits this except when Storm Watch is active for an event. I have seen some transient grid pulls once I activated the setting, but they have been very small and very brief - not at all anything that...

I actually have a mixed solar setup. The original install is Sunpower panels with SunnyBoy central inverter (installed 2007). Supplemental install of Sunpower panels with microinverters (2016) and Powerwalls in early 2019. The APC and Cyberpower units did indeed run out of juice during an...

30% year round. Haven't used a single kWHr of peak or mid-peak from PG&E with that setting.

Have 15 years of meticulous records on my system. Live in an area with a lot of agricultural dust (vineyards) and the panels are visibly dirty pretty quickly after cleaning. I generally see about a 5% improvement in output (measured either as peak kW or total kWh's on day before and day after...

To answer the specific equations about UPS use with Powerwalls - I had multiple problems with APC CyberPower UPS units that simple could not tolerate the synthetic frequency of the PowerWalls when off grid. Removed all of them and simply went bare for over a year. I have had numerous outages...

My connection is much the same as miimura - except I used a simple exterior rated cable - the exposed portion is about 4 inches. Did not power anything down to connect. FWIW - I keep a spare iPad monitoring the TEG via WiFi with a distance from the TEG of about 20 feet (plus the shielding of...

The first image shows the setup prior to install - the meter and existing main breaker box on the left. The smaller boxes to the right of the main box are for prior solar (10kW) cutoff and a sub for AC. The second image shows two new panels in between - a new main breaker box (on top) and the...

The Ford truck is export limited for vehicle to home. Supposed to support 240VAC but something similar to a single powerwall in terms of max rate of discharge - I seem to recall a 5kW rate limit somewhere. Therefore, not expected to support AC or large appliances on it's own but clearly a...

Just got this overnight. Nothing obviously different and no evidence of any documentation. Anyone else ?

Try calling the SunPower number and getting anything useful. Just because they gave you a number doesn't mean they give great service. BTW - the monitoring hardware and software from SunPower is utterly useless in anything approaching real time. The increments for data are 15 minutes and the...

I use a 25% reserve in summer and a 75% reserve in winter. EVA2 plan with excess production about 9 months per year. Have endured and survived multiple power outages lasting upwards of 32 hours with some regularity and that's why I have the PW. Essentially set the reserve such that I have...

Or you can use SunPower and get essentially ZERO warranty support. Failed panels - nuthin for months. Failed string inverter - nuthin ever. They are fabulous panels when they work, but just pray they never fail because my experience with SunPower is the worst possible. Zero support...

Nice. A bit obvious, but nice. From the obvious perspective - tried it before my original post. If you zoom in far enough to take the buttons out of view, all you can see are the solar icon and the battery icon. It's a trivial display issue - my only concern is a random touch on a red button...

Can pinch and zoom just fine - the problem appears to be a new battery icon which is shorter - which brings the stop and go buttons up into the vicinity of the energy icons. Not a big deal - it's just that the iPad is hung on a wall near my thermostat so I can get an idea of the AC pull and...

2 Powerwalls installed (outside) April 2019. Nominal energy one-10457, two-10536, 20993 combined. The new firmware did not change those numbers at all. Tracking this via this method for only 4 months and it has gone down 0.3% over that time period. Tracked using an estimate based on...

Nice idea - no change - same layout and format. Thanks for the hint.

Went from 21.20.6 to 21.35.0 overnight on the 30th. No obvious operational changes for me nor are there any new options. The only change I saw was a display mapping for my iPad mini. I have an old mini that I leave on and logged into the TEG - a real time monitor in portrait display format...

I'm on the other coast, but observe the same essential behavior. SW kicks in when we have true local events (awesome) but also kicks in when we have "nearby" events that technically do not impact me directly. I basically turn off SW when my opinion is that the event will not impact me and then...

To the moderator - please move this into the 4.0.0 app thread - I missed it during my search.

IOS version 4.0.0 now reveals a "Go Off-Grid" option. Tried exploring it and the first screen leads you into a bluetooth pairing process directly with the PowerWalls. Before I go down this rabbit hole - has anyone tried this out ?

Turns out to have been a dead 12v battery. Completely unrelated to the update. Replace battery, car comes alive and resumes the update. Sort of like magic...

2021.24.4 install went sideways yesterday. Completely bricked my car. Tesla service pending - since the change cable is locked to the car, cannot open doors, disconnect charger cable or move it. Non-moving hunk of various aluminum, steel, lithium, silicon...

I have 2 PW with 10kW solar. It's an adequate combo for me...I produce about 16,000 kWHrs in a year and consume about 15,000 (with 1 EV). The 2 PW work just fine during high production (May-Oct) but lack enough storage and enough solar for recharge to be considered grid independent during the...

Napa is an identified red flag area starting the evening of Aug 17. Stormwatch activated at 6am in Napa.

My powerwalls are mounted on a steel reinforced block wall - conduit simply runs along the wall to the gateway and power main. No big deal. No disconnect between the PW and the gateway. The wall also provides a nice thermal mass to moderate temperature changes in the powerwall environment.

Update then downgrade...over the past 6 weeks, have gone from 20.49.0 to 21.20.2 to 21.24.1 and this week was downgraded to 21.20.6

Be prepared to clean your panels once the smoke (and ash) clears. With the smoke and ashfall from the Napa fires last fires, my production was down 25%. The exact improvement on consecutive cloudless days (before and after cleaning) was either 25% or 26% when measured as peak kW production or...

Got this new firmware version overnight (previously on 20.49.0) I don't see anything in the documentation. The Tesla app is not obviously different. However, the direct login (screenshot below) has a brand new option "Go Off Grid". It shows up on the TEG wifi login as well as the ethernet...

Single story home with easy and safe roof access. Live in an agricultural area (wine grapes are surprisingly dirty in situ - also have an equestrian program about 200 yards away). 14 years of experience and data. General cleanliness (when the panels are visibly dirty on the lower third of...

The decision on replacement of all of the microinverters (ten of them) was made by SunPower. One had failed (type of failure not disclosed) and the stated reason was that "this is a matched set". My experience with SunPower has been abysmal - they knew of the failed inverter but only succumbed...

I have a mixed system of string inverter and microinverters (separate installs at different times). In terms of reliability - no clear winner. I have had a string inverter fail (requiring replacement at about the 10 year mark) and I have had a single microinverter fail (requiring replacement...

I just posted this an another thread regards Tesla panels... Based on verifiable experience - total of 6 installs in NorCal (all close friends or colleagues) who got just Tesla solar, solar+Powerwalls or Powerwalls w/o solar.... No dumpster fires. Zero. Several delays due to utility issues...

Based on verifiable experience - total of 6 installs in NorCal (all close friends or colleagues) who got just Tesla solar, solar+Powerwalls or Powerwalls w/o solar.... No dumpster fires. Zero. Several delays due to utility issues (either scheduling or lack thereof) - this appears to have been...

BTW - the PowerWalls were installed 2 years ago by Tesla. That experience was AWESOME. Great crew, fast install. prompt updates for problems during install (bad cellular component and one set of CT's did not properly communicate with the gateway). One guy came out to do the followup and he...

I have 10kW SunPower and 2 PW. The SunPower install dates back to 2007. I have had a couple of warranty replacements via SunPower and the experience each and every time was about as bad as you can get. Defective panel took almost a year to get replaced and the initial replacement panel was...

A bit of a split - I have gas central heat for 70% of the house, heat pump for the the other 30%. Unless the days are exceptionally cold (under 30F), the heat pump can service the entire house. I also have gas water heating. I would like to replace both gas appliances with heat pumps so that...

For me - EV2 plan (PG&E). I use the cost savings setting and set the schedule strictly according to the rate plan. The only thing I vary is the reserve setting (since my primary motivation for batteries was protection from grid failure). From April thru October, I use a 25% reserve and in the...

Solar can in fact be sufficient even in winter - it is a matter of sizing, location and prudent use when production is low. For myself, a 10kW system produces just over 40kW hours per day annualized (based on actual production data back to 2007). That means, I have a couple of days just over...