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strange - my PW didn't stop discharging at 9PM, i guess it decided that partial-peak was still worth it. however when i opened the VPP page in the app, even at 9:15 it said "1 minute left". maybe that is just a display problem.

yeah i didn’t connect the dots but my export was about 4.4kw at 30% and increased to 5.4 when i dropped my reserve to 10% just now.

yeah mine seems to be discharging the max for me, which is about 5.4Kw. this is a weird one though as noted upthread. there’s no event over at CAISO. i guess it is another tesla test?

thanks, somehow i missed that.

did you really order just the powerwall? i already have a 2PW system and on the tesla powerwall website, there doesn't seem to be any way to just order the battery without the gateway and other supporting stuff. also i contacted a couple local installers and they wanted ~$6000 to install...

these huge (-5MWh) yearly exports. i thought the IOUs pretty much explicitly limited the size of a system so that you aren't a net exporter like this. it just seems too large to me. of course someone could move out of the house and then have no consumption or something but i'm assuming that...

i guess i never noticed what PGE would have allowed me to install solar-wise since i was limited by the size of the roof. i did have an EV for 4 years before installing solar so my usage was pretty high (700-1000kwh per month). this probably means i could have installed a much larger system and...

just as a general question to the experts: how does this happen? i thought you could only install 130% (or some similar small amount over 100%) of your previous average usage for a year or two. i'm surprised to see a 5mwh surplus given those rules. i suppose the math could still work out if OP...

my gateway registers itself as "teg" when it does a DHCP request, so it's possible that OP could just type https://teg into their browser and the local dns resolver in the router will resolve that to the IP address.

i mean, you asked how the IRS would or could know. the answer is, with some effort, they can know. i agree it's not likely that they would put effort into this, but it is technically knowable. i really doubt tesla would spend a red cent defending their customers. it's not EM's way. they don't...

i guess it all depends on whether or not your utility or Tesla decides to "cooperate" with the feds. the utility can't know for sure you are grid charging but of course certain patterns of consumption would indicate it is likely. and of course tesla knows exactly what your powerwall is doing at...

all i can say is what i said: when it starts acting up, the cause is not RF interference or external wifi issues or the wifi base station, the problem is in the gateway. maybe it's the wifi interface itself that has a problem; no way to really know cause i can't reboot or power cycle just that...

i never got around to doing this. my motivation was that at times the wifi connection to the gateway becomes very flaky. it turns out that this must be some kind of memory leak inside the gateway firmware. when it starts acting up, if i go reboot the gateway it starts working again and works...

that's a good question, i should try to look back to days when there was a storm watch event to see how much the PW pulled from the grid. i have 200A service so you'd think that they were OK with 48kw draw at least when the house was built. i don't think i've ever seen more than ~13kw being...

before the last AR there was no storm watch, so i set my reserve to 100%, and the PW charged all the way up on solar energy. i noticed in the morning that the SOC was down slightly. the PW reported a 3-5 watts exported during each 5 minute period during the night. what's weird is that the SOC...

but this is what i was trying to say in my other reply - i currently have two powerwalls and although that is capable of 10kw, during VPP events and normal "export everything" days my system only exports 5kw. i assume this is because it's what my solar inverter can export, and what was...

does adding additional storage require interfacing with PGE again? or is this something that can just be added in to an existing PW system? trying to figure out if the electricians that did my main panel upgrade for tesla could just install one more PW. maybe they would know how to file the...

what are their instructions? my inverter (non-tesla, pre dating my powerwalls) has a nameplate power output of 5kw, so that's apparently why tesla set my export limit to 5kw. there was a brief time where i was exporting 10kw but after a few days i found that it was clamped at 5kw.

how many powerwalls can a single gateway support? i've got a 2x powerwall system right now and i assume it wouldn't cost too much for an electrician to add a 3rd at this point.

i just noticed that there is now a “cancel drop off appointment “ button in the app. dunno if i missed it before or it just appeared. you have to tap the link near the top of the “manage lease” screen which takes you to a flowchart of steps in the lease return process. at the bottom of the...

i think it should be fine, but in my case costco had the stock michelins and i only replaced 2 of them. one thing that got me was that the local costco actually had the tires in stock, and the emails they sent about it somehow went to my spam folder. so i ended up making an appointment way out...

the guy told me today that any body wraps or window tints will be either required to be removed or you'll be charged for them. he did say something about how there's some law or something about the car needing to be in the same condition at return as it was at the time of sale but that seems...

makes sense, there are a trillion teslas in the bay area and a bunch of service centers. i hadn't considered that. i just know in general tesla is a "self service" company so i figured they were just cutting costs by making you do the inspection in all markets.

OP here, i'm finally ready to turn in the car. i replaced the rear tires as they were definitely below the tread-wear limit, but the fronts should be OK. i had this mobile curb rash repair guy come out and it cost about $100 per wheel. it looks fantastic, i don't know how these guys do it. very...

this is a good idea, but my 2x powerwall system is clamped at 5kw since that's my inverter's nameplate power. so i would only be able to dump 10kwh every day if i set up like this. there was a short period of time when i first turned on EE where my system would put out 10kw but it must have been...

not at all and not at all, thanks what customers aside from the people in this forum are going to respond to hourly demand pricing?? people don't even understand the fixed periods on the current TOU schedules.

i totally agree with you but from the standpoint of the company it is a million times easier to do it this way. unfortunately that's The Way It Is now.

i was talking about 2005/2006 but since that was the start of the sticker program the conditions inside the DMV could have very well been like the pandemic, that is, totally overwhelmed. i just know at some point they started kicking back forms with blank license plate numbers. i bought a car...

i just got yet another EV and i think will be the 6th sticker that i've applied for. if i remember correctly, at some point, they were allowing you to send in the REG1000 with the license plate number blank and they would sit on it until they could look up the VIN and get the plate number. this...

you need to get the actual license plate before sending in the sticker form.

idk, my curb rash is really bad, and on 3 wheels. i can’t imagine it will be less than a few hundred dollars.

do you normally not export everything during peak? that's what makes it hard, figuring out what the baseline export works out to be for a given event.

the email says they've mailed the check and not much else other than the amount - for me it's about $72. this is a little less than double the amount that i calculated with the spreadsheet that @Redhill_qik posted. i guess i must have screwed up my data input, so it's a pleasant surprise.

LOLLLL, TPMS 2, rob 0. the tire really was flat. i can't believe my wife actually managed to get the tire to within 2 pounds of the label without a gauge. just unbelievable. the neighbors are doing a home renovation and their contractors must have spilled some drywall screws on the ground...

well, no idea. this is because my wife was driving and she called me, then went to a gas station to try to see what their air gauge attached to the pump might say. however, it was clearly broken (read 3lb on a tire the car was not complaining about) and so i told her not to try to put too much...

just got a "pull over now" emergency notification on my M3P; service menu said right rear tire was at 13lbs. checking with a tire gauge revealed 42lbs after filling a little bit of air into the tire. subsequently after getting going again the car gave a normal pressure reading for that tire...

yes, that's how it works. yes, though some CCAs do monthly trueup/billing on the generation portion of the bill. at least the east bay CCA is going to allow you to switch to yearly true ups at some point in 2023. they don't really know what was generated or consumed, they just know the net...

thanks for the further info, that's exactly what i was wondering about. i think i'll just do the curb rash before inspection since it's clearly way beyond what they deem normal, and then see what, if anything, the tech points out. i have a single quarterpanel ding which i got about 2.5 years...

thanks - at some point along the line i must have misunderstood the process - that you had to do all the inspection work yourself and submit pictures to tesla. this would be very much in keeping with how they run things. so it's good to hear they do the inspection with a real human and then...

you are right, in fact i was talking to another solar/PW user at a holiday party and he brought this up - if standalone batteries are going to qualify for the ITC, and obviously they can only grid charge, then what about us early adopters? on the other hand if the point of a standalone battery...

yeah i've been using the PW to export solar from 4-9pm (or 4-xPM as there isn't enough solar in the winter to make it till the end of peak, and even in the summer the PWs are tapped by 8-830pm). however, i don't want to enable grid charging due to the whole solar ITC thing. i guess i have to...

absolutely agree, the shift to 4-9PM peak inside of NEM1 and NEM2 has already destroyed payback horizons. the NEM3 thing is just insult to injury.

i have a leased M3 which is due back in mid-december. i actually extended the lease 6 months, but it's looking like i'll have my new car (not a tesla) a few days before the original lease expiration date. at this point, in order to avoid re-registering the car, it probably makes sense to try to...

something like this happened to me - east bay PGE customer. PGE seems to have juiced up a nearby transformer to handle a voltage sag somewhere else, but it put the voltage at my house outside of the 5% tolerance which is mandated (by the CPUC i guess.) my SMA inverter, made in germany, seems to...

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ok thanks for the replies. i can try throwing the main. i agree the powerwall probably shouldn’t make a noise like i heard.

it turns out (per nextdoor) that there were 2 brief outages in a very wide area here last night at exactly the same time that the tesla app is reporting. so the sound i heard might have been a nearby transfer station, or maybe just the collective noise made by all the streetlights and houses...

is it normal to hear a loud arcing noise when a powerwall2 takes over the home load? last night i was awakened by a loud electrical/arcing sound. i thought it might have been one of the springs on my garage door breaking and unspooling (horizontal springs for rolling garage door - this has...

on 16.0.1 with a 14pro i was getting “check your internet connection” in the app for both my M3 and powerwall. turns out it must have been a token problem since logging out of the app and then logging in again fixed it. sort of a misleading error message.

fair enough, but i'd want to automate this as i won't want to be fiddling with the app all the time