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Curious if you and your installer considered the solution that ours wants to do: He said the solar CT requires two wires, and he uses 16awg wire when it’s all fairly close. With the 800’ he would use (2) 12awg wires pulled through a communication conduit to make the solar CT connection at the...

Are we correct in interpreting that you have a total of four CT’s in the Gateway? Thanks!

Yeah, you are right! It was the best solution, with all given dynamics here. I will search around for similar situations on TMC. Did you read comment #6 above in this thread? It does sound like other folks have similar situations and sometimes Tesla engineers come up with unique solutions when...

There is a non backup panel next to Gateway (in my sketch = energy distribution box! 🤭) and as we have propane for heating water/cooking, our system is just 150 amps.

Yes, thanks. I’ll post back the end results and final solution when resolved - ever the optimist!

Hi. Thanks for encouragement. Here is our energy storyboard diagram to give you a visual, just to clarify the different inputs and loads on our system. I think we have Gateway 2, so maybe it is different than GW1, but we will certainly pursue your suggestion and keep calling Tesla support until...

Thank you again - is there any possibility your PM can let us know even the first name of the Tesla (magician) tech who helped you? We have been back and forward with them since last June and made no headway until now. That would be so helpful for us.

Hi Aesculus. Yes, the circuits with the solar output have loads on them too which causes the complication. Initially we tried switching and then replacing the CT’s, but to no avail. It sounds like your Tesla PM came up with a good solution - it makes sense to measure the load side for the same...

Thanks Dareed1, There’s lots to learn here for a layperson like myself. I understand that the reporting issues at our site are related to multiple loads as well as the two separate solar arrays and all spread over a couple of acres. I agree what you say about Kirchhoff’s Law. Tesla has made some...

Thank you BG. That really lays out some options for us and gives us a realistic picture of how these solutions are very high tech and complex, but doable. Yes we live in the redwoods and the 800 feet distance is through large trees, so line of sight is not an option for us. In the meantime our...

Tesla Gateway registering solar at night 😊 from array 800 feet away. We are troubleshooting our system and would welcome input. Our setup has a 1.5 kWh pole-mount with micro inverters and a 11 kWh roof-mount SunPower with micro inverters, separated by 800 foot distance through the woods to the...

How did you get on BG? Reading this thread with interest, as we are troubleshooting our system and are considering adding a Neurio for communication. Our solar array (with good Starlink WiFi available) is separated from our Tesla Gateway and Powerwalls by 800 feet through the woods. The Tesla...

Setting the reserve at 100% - we are hoping to avoid having to remember to manually switch the reserve up and down every day, as we originally did this for about three months….. hoping that at some point Tesla will enable the ability to set a time for grid charging (for those with grid charging...

Did you ever find a solution for this? We wish our powerwall would fill from the grid as soon as our off peak rates begin, so that they are filled for frequent power outages, especially in winter months when there is not reliable sunshine to fill the powerwall either. Thanks.

Thank you cwied. I will try some of your suggestions and report back!

Thanks cwied. I notice that just after midnight when our off-peak time begins that the powerwall does charge just a little, 2-5%, but then stops….. I have attached pic of our time-of-use settings, modified in our endless experiment to try and control when the Powerwalls recharge (from either...

I believe some Powerwall and solar customers have figured out how to configure the timing of charging their PW from the grid. If so, please can you help us! We have 12kw solar and two PW, are on PGE EV2A, and our off peak rates are from midnight to 3pm. We set the backup reserve to 60%/40% to...

Hello Redhill_qik, Tesla eventually sent new CT and installer replaced it, which did make the reporting more accurate, with one strange occurrence that very often, a trickle (.01 to .05 kWh) of solar reporting often at nighttime….. I did post screenshots a week ago in this thread. Regardless...

Have any of you experienced the Tesla App reporting solar production, albeit just .5kW, at night when it is dark outside? CT finally replaced and this is part of our new Tesla Powerwall scenario for the past two nights…

Gosh. Good questions! We are in time-based-control but I don’t see energy exports setting, sorry ( I have seen it in the past). At 4am I think power went to the house. Here are screenshots as I don’t know. It’s all fascinating, Thank you again!!

Thankyou for your feedback and clarification about solar production reporting discrepancies. I will keep after the solar installer to replace the CT. Unfortunately my tweak last night not so successful, although the Powerwall filled to 100% it discharged at 4am (the end of my super off peak...

Hello Redhill_qik. We tried many configurations of utility pricing. Starting with the standard pricing as quoted by PG&E. Then Tesla advised that we lower sell price by 15%. We tried that. And 20%. Also lowering sell price to .03c/kWh and to .01c/kWh and many other variations including adding...

Hi. We did not take the federal tax credit. We do have access to grid charging. Thank you. We did not get the federal tax credit and have access to grid charging, but not permitted to charge the Powerwalls from the grid during off peak hours (starting midnight at our location). Hoping that in...

Hello Tesla Powerwall users, The more I read these threads about how to trick the system into desired configuration, the more confusing it gets. Wow! We in northern CA, have 12kw solar, two Powerwalls and are on PGE EV2-A rates. In an ideal world we would like to set Powerwalls 55/45 reserve (as...