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You don't need to "soak up the excess power" with any kind of load. If you have full sun on 8KW of panels, your Powerwall is full and your house is consuming 1KW you have nothing to "soak up" the extra 7KW. It is a mistake to think that just because a system can produce a certain amount of...

I guess I don't know the what a grid-forming inverter is, but my goal isn't to build a solar inverter from scratch - at least not yet. I have built sine wave inverters before, using PWM to generate a good sine wave. I was thinking that the Tesla inverter would probably run if I fed it 10-15...

Of course I know that the inverters detect voltage and frequency from the grid. My question involves HOW they measure it. If the inverter happens to be sending power to the grid, there will normally be voltage on the grid "side" of the inverter even if the grid is down. So the inverter cannot...

I am an EE and have Tesla panels and inverter, but no Powerwall. I want to start a project that would allow me to use the power from my panels when the grid is "down". Of course, I would never back-feed a dead grid connection. But I have the following questions, someone has to know the...

Has anyone figured out how to change the charge current of a Tesla home charger using their API? I do not have a Powerwall. The current is adjustable with my phone app, but I would like to control it with a non-phone device. I can already control many car functions, but I want to extend that...

Being able to change charging currents from a device like a Raspberry pi would be great.