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Same, the devs working on the Powerwall Dashboard finally restored the per string data that was lost on the last firmware update. Happy to see that info to health check my system due to it's split North/South nature. Crazy how much effort people put into the community and their projects.

Just barely missed it, but our 1 yr PTO anniversary just went by! Made 7,028 kWh of solar during that time vs the 6,748 kWh /yr estimated by Tesla (and 7,059 kWh estimated by PvWatts!). Nice to see how it performed after a year without throttling 🙂 Could've been more if the roof vents had been...

I do now with the latest update, even under "Charge Stats" for the vehicle it gives an option to sign up to Tesla Electric 😮

We did better on Wednesday, 29.2 kWh's which is 2 kWh's shy of my personal record. On a side note, who else enjoying the free FSD trial? Been playing it with it all week, so far: 0/5 Home > Work ~22mi commutes without having to disengage (usually when exiting or getting on a turning lane)...

Sounds like there’s no hope then. Just gonna focus on covering all the bases in regards to wear and tear. Thanks for the input 👍

I monitor my PW using Powerwall Dashboard and it has marked small blackouts for when a firmware update gets installed (SoC dropping to 0% etc.). Used to be able to review alerts and other vitals before the December update and the errors would line up with the firmware update. At night I'm on...

Wow really Houston went and banned garage installs? Glad I got mine done when I did but looks like I won’t ever be able to add another PW. Damn things are easy enough to install might just do it on my own eventually.

I’ve disabled storm watch and set reserve to 0%. For these types of thunderstorms that blow by we usually have short outages, and it won’t charge fast enough from the alert going on to make a difference. Not much to fear inside the loop vs our suburbanite buddies.

Still working fine for me on latest 2024.2.7

In other news, got a new family member! My wife finally did a thing and went with an RWD 2024 MY! She will be using it for a few errands and shopping but not much else since she works from home. Went back and revived ChargeHQ to have the MY charge during the day with solar and for free at night...

I'm with Amigo and have been with them for years before even getting solar. I had no idea they were the same.

For those that have returned leases, did anyone notice if they stay at the SC they're turned in at? Or how quickly the vehicle will show up for sale in inventory? We can't buy at lease end but maybe we can stalk the SC to purchase the vehicle when it hits inventory (just a thought but no idea...

Part numbers seem to be all over the place, my original one (non-data) was 1656787-30-A, and I replaced that with a TPARTS data enable one from Amazon last year that now had the USB-C ports fail (no power or data). Contacted the SC and ordered 1755200-00-B for USD 25 which they agreed to bring...

Nice! Did you go thru Chihuahua/Durango with SC or down through Sonora and use destination ones? We did Houston > Mexico City last year all with SC but if Ramos Arizpe is down might need to pit stop because going into MTY is a time sink…

Does anyone know what happened to the Ramos Arizpe charger between Monterrey and Saltillo? Tesla App/Car Nav and ABRP report it as under repair. Plugshare this month has comments that it can't be used but it was working until November last year. Supercharger.info and Tesla.com/superchargers...

Lost all string data, battery temp, alerts on Powerwall Dashboard too, dev trying to see if it can be restored but not hopeful :(

Careful! There's a strange object in the sky, it's very disorienting o_O

Just did a double check on generation too and it matches, both report 276 kWh's. I think they're not worried about us smallfry 🤣

Billing for me matches to the nearest kWh with Amigo Energy. Just got the bill for Meter Dates "12/14 - 01/18" which add up to 733 usage and Smart Meter Texas reports the same 733 for "12/14 - up to 01/18 (until the end of 01/17)". That said, Nights Free does not forgive, with the cold, lack...

Made it to free nights today at 27% soc Yesterday hit 7% soc right at 9pm Saturday got to -2% with 15min to go :( Been cycling the PW hard this week lol

Did you have to wait longer for the IRS form to be usable? The credit is the only thing holding me up with finishing taxes :'/

Nope, and it's not worth it. Take it to one of those windshield chip repairs for $50 (unless it spreads).

Have mine set to 0%! Living on the edge I know but don't expect power outages with this mild weather. Anyone have luck filing their tax returns with the energy credit last year? IRS hasn't finalized the form 5695 for 2023 and can move forward with my return. Were they also late in finalizing...

In that amount of time you can get more than half the PW drained at its max discharge rate.

Perfect day here, maxed out winter production at 20 kWh‘s even for this small system. Really really wish all theroof exhaust vents hadn’t been on the south side of the house, could’ve had double the panels. Even with the north side being bare, panels on that side got hardly any sun. All six...

lol that’s more than what my 150A service can provide 🤯

Indeed, here in the “urban core” we barely hit 30F right now but it’s gonna get real cold tonight. Only managed to eke out 2.2kWh from the sun today, hope tomorrow is better. Running of the PW again right now and as soon as free nights hits, it’ll get topped off to 100%! House has kept warm at...

Yup, the sun will help tomorrow. That's the second use case I want to experience with my system, very cold but with solar production. For the current cloudy day and cold, PW was at my 10% reserve by noon. Aux-Heating is tougher than normal heating/cooling because the 1 PW would last me a whole...

Well, keeping the house warm but the one PW is now at 44%! Grid seems to be holding up well so maybe I’ll let it drain to reserve. Gonna loose all my power bill credit today lol

Yeah those work chargers were white herrings to entice people to adopt EVs, now that more have they’re removing that perk. At work they finally installed some but made them only for company vehicles of which we have none that are EVs lol. Honestly it would be easy to calculate how much it would...

Just realized it's been a year with Tesla Solar woooh! Total of 6.1 MWh's generated on a 5.6 kW system even though the first four months were without PTO. Next milestone 1yr of PTO in April. Interestingly, thanks to the EV, the solar offset has only been 47% (from an originally estimated 103%...

Yes, that’s how it looks like for me in the app with TE’s estimates. Only month it shows a credit is when I was on vacation and didn’t charge the EV at all. Overall it’s about half the cost of my previous fixed rate plan before going nights free though. @Jones1 did TE ever offer that EV monthly...

Maybe it's because the system is too large? They do have some verbiage about being limited to 25 kW systems in their buyback agreement: This is the same for Just Energy. Sadly nobody else seems to offer Nights Free with Buyback (I fear this option will disappear completely from the market...

Nope, just look but don’t touch. You can get somewhat close to the window and peek inside.

Found the only Cybertruck in retail display in Texas at there new store in League City ;) thing looks epic in person!

Those are Powerwall 3s! 🤩

You’re getting some great production days though with your system! Just barely twice mine but 3x the results ;)

Abismal! Had the lowest production ever since installation at 1.8 kWh. North-facing panels barely produce 100 watts per panel even when it's sunny. The upside is that the house is using very little power, and if it wasn't for the M3, one PW could support 24 hours of no sun or grid lol! Still...

Dunno, I only have a simple energy-efficient home, these 400A behemoths are beyond me! Are 400A service feeds single or 2x200A? Do they consolidate in a single panel if separate? Does the whole home run of two? Do you have two different meters? lol We need to save the planet, not use enough...

The devil's in the details, one Gateway can communicate with up to 10 Powerwalls. But that's not the same as handling the load of 10 Powerwalls. Technically, we could upgrade to a single 400 A load center, hook up 10 Powerwalls there (avoid Gateway altogether), and then only have a 200A...

Also, the internal panelboard only has room for three 240v breakers (so that's another limit on how many PW's a Gateway can handle) 😅 In my case, they didn't even use it and added a Service Disconnect off to the side. That has my single PW breaker but haven't opened it up to see if it could be...

You need a breaker for each PW at the Gateway, these go in the internal panelboard that is limited to 200A. Here my understanding fails a bit, but I think the home backup loads + the Powerwall have to fall under this 200A limit. This I think is why some of you have additional Gateways coming...

That’s 4k cheaper than what I originally got offered 2 for when I was starting my system design. I would’ve done 2 powerwalls for that price back then for sure. My home is surviving fine with one but it leaves little for outages, getting a second one is very tempting :s

With Amigo usually 7-10 days for it to be viewable online and then another 2-3 days or so for it to show up in the mail after the end of my billing period.

I have mine set at 10% reserve, I'll use every last drop unless a storm is headed our way. In summer on a "difficult" day it will usually get to 30% left. Right now I barely hit 80%. Still, had it happen a couple of times with just one PW. Once because I topped off the M3 a bit during the day...

For the first comparison, it wasn't really the same range of months, got the car at the end of February and the Defenders were installed in May. So the MXM4's benefited from spring while new vs summer for the Defender 2's. No idea if heat is better or worse on the tire in regards to mileage...

They’re all going up, I switched to State Farm and bundled for a small discount. After six months it still went up 15 bucks… from now we going to have to shop around every time I feel like

Used to do Corpus > Monterrey > Corpus on the weekends a decade ago (damn that sounds harsh) mostly thru Reynosa/Pharr. Could do it in my then 2009 Hybrid Civic in about 5.5 hrs and not have to refuel until I was back at McAllen lol Wish I had a Model 3 back then!

Identical for me, crazy that it also felt noticeably cooler during the eclipse. Let's see what happens next year!

I'd start with the DG Interconnection group that did the initial PTO. The CenterPoint Meter is supposed to report surplus generation, if something is wrong then they'd be able to dig into it. Who did you have before Amigo? The numbers back then were correct right?