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I'm looking for one of these as well, anyone have an extra?

You need to remove the font panel of the GW to get to the ethernet jack. Unscrew one screw at the bottom, not the 4 screws near the middle. Don't do this if you're not comfortable working around electricity, as the GW contains 240V that is exposed once that panel is removed, and it will wreck...

Yes, I have the "Configure Wi-Fi" on my Tesla app (iPhone, version 4.3.1). In the PowerWall section, hit Settings then scroll all the way down. It's between "Manage Paired Devices" and the Version & Serial numbers. There is also an ethernet port on the gateway. I think you have to open a...

Mi/kWh gets messy when you have hills and regen. Normal driving of 300 Wh/mi or 3.3 kWh/mi makes sense in either units. Coast downhill where your usage hits 0 Wh/mi, and that converts to infinite mi/kWh. Go down a steeper hill at -100 Wh/mi and I understand negative energy use means charging the...

The calculation should be: cost to repair + salvage value + DV vs. car value. Considering that Teslas often have salvage values of 20k+, your car will very likely be totaled. Be ready to fight with the insurance company over the value of your car, and get whatever documentation you can. If...

Thanks for confirming that there's no longer a way to chose which times of the day are opt-in or opt-out, I was looking all over their site for that. I have the exact same problem with the solar calculation. My typical usage is around 1kW, and I used to have Diamond status with the powerwall...

That's nice that Porsche claims SOC has no effect, but real-world testing shows different results. Here's a discussion of how the maximum power available changes with SOC and temperature. Included are lots of photos and explanation of the grey bars which indicate max power and max regain, so...

One of the segments of Park Street ( Way: ‪Park Street‬ (‪682970835‬) | OpenStreetMap ) was tagged one-way in the wrong direction. Not sure if that was related to the odd navigation choice, but I just set the direction correctly.

If that lowball value comes from a CCC report, make sure you get a copy and look it over closely. I got my valuation increased by 8k over the initial numbers: If you car is totaled, beware CCC One Valuation Report

Yes, I remember when they tried that flat -2kW thing for solar users, it was a mess. Luckily they reversed that. Unfortunately, I can't find their post where they describe the changes. Currently, they calculate your baseline as the average of your usage during that time period (e.g. 7-8 PM)...

I don't use easy entry, and it's happened at times when nobody else has been driving the car, so no profiles would have been touched. I'll keep an eye out for software updates though, to see if it's tied to that.

Yes, I've been seeing this recently. 2018 Model S, MCU2, Version 20.48.30

I've been doing OhmConnect for a couple years and earn about $300 per year. I don't have very high use ($100-$200/month bills) and don't play any games to spike my usage, I just set my PowerWall to zero out power usage when requested. They used to have a thing where solar users were expected...

I had a car totaled recently, and the insurance company wanted to pay me out based on a CCC One valuation report. I had looked at ev-cpo.com and had a ballpark idea what my car was worth, and that report was a ridiculous lowball. They listed my car as having no options, so that they could...

Well, the other party's insurance hit their policy limit, so my insurance took over. Still being sold via Copart, but now Lot #58944730. https://www.copart.com/lot/58944730/ A little more info: I was rear-ended by someone going (my guess) 35-40. Damage doesn't look too bad visually (tail...

Measuring range over a week's worth of short trips isn't accurate. Some energy is lost while the car is parked, and the beginning of each trip is much less efficient as the car gets the cabin and battery up to temperature. This is especially true in the winter. Take a longer trip for a more...

People have measured the EMF in Teslas and found it to be very low. Spark plugs produce a larger pulse of EMF with each spark than you’ll find in a Tesla. Also, EMF at these frequencies hasn’t been shown to cause cancer. For wind noise, I’ve heard of trouble with the rubber seals around the...

You might be able to charge your car from it, but Teslas are picky about some generators, and might not like it. Best case, the Tesla plugs in, charges for the entire 3KWh that this thing has stored, adds somewhere under 12 miles of range, and then the Yeti's battery is drained. The solar...

Sold.

Came with the car I just bought, appears to be unused. Includes Bag, UMC, and 5-15 adapter. Asking $225 local (San Diego) or $240 shipped in the U.S. For another $75, I'll add in the J1772 adapter that also came with this car.

I'm not sure if this is the right spot for it (let me know and I'll move this post), but insurance just totaled my car after a rear-end accident. If the future owner finds this post, drop me a message and I'd be happy to answer any questions, damage, maintenance history, etc. Or, I suppose if...

It’s probably the hand sanitizer. I got one to keep in the car and started noticing a vinegar smell in the morning. Got rid of the sanitizer, and smell went away.

Cute idea, but physics says it’s not nearly as powerful as they claim. C14 decays pretty slowly (5700+ year half-life) so even if they captured 100% of the energy, it would take 2365 pounds of C14 to generate 1 kW of power. Even the most conservative driver needs substantially more. it could...

Correct, the house is being powered from the grid during this time, and all solar is going to the battery.

No, I'm not charging from the grid, and I don't think that's possible (in our region) without some kind of hacking. I'm charging from solar on the weekends where the off-peak lasts until 2PM. During the week I don't charge.

There's no point in trying to get the 1¢ difference, but there is a 15-16¢ difference available on the weekends. The schedule I use during the winter is Advanced-Cost Saving: Weekdays: Off-Peak midnight - 6AM, Peak 6AM - midnight Weekends: Off-Peak midnight - 2PM, Peak 2PM - midnight This lets...

Give this a try: Set to Advanced, Cost Saving. Then ignore the difference between off-peak and shoulder times, and set all that time to off-peak in the app. Because there's not enough solar between 10pm-8am to matter, the extra differences between off-peak and shoulder are just confusing the...

That's very similar chemistry to an aluminum-air battery, but they over-complicated it by throwing a fuel cell in the middle of the process. And, of course, the fuel cell version is less efficient. Wikipedia lists aluminum-air batteries at 1.3 kWh/kg, but the hydrogen-producing version is only...

Unlike an ICE transmission, there's no physical parts that get moved around when you switch "gears" on a Tesla. The only thing you have done is to tell the computer whether the go-pedal is for requesting torque in the forward direction, or if you're requesting torque in the reverse direction...

You can see the third brake light come on at 55 seconds into the video, and the car stops immediately.

When you go to "Edit Price Schedule" where you currently have orange peak time defined for the whole day, I think you want that to be grey for part-peak. When you adjust the times, you get different results when you drag the handle just above the orange area vs the handle just below the orange...

What do your daytime rates look like? Are you paid full price for electricity exported? Or part price? Or nothing? Different electric plans price that differently, and it makes all the difference in how you set things up. If you're paid full price for exports, there's nothing for the...

When the shelf comes off, the plastic below it comes with it, and it reveals a larger area than I expected. That includes the area where the door slides into. Give it a try, it only takes a minute or two to pop the shelf on and off.

You can pull down on the shelf below the screen and it will unclip. The shelf comes down and forward and then you can reach the hidden area where your paper slid. One time I had a credit card sitting there, hit the brakes, and it slipped in that same place.

When I bought my Lexus, the salesperson demo’ed the voice command feature... He said “Set temperature to 72” and it did. He said “Dial 555-555-5555” and it did. He claimed it would import my phone contacts, and then I could dial by people’s names. In practice, I prefer it a little cooler, so I...

I'm using TBC balanced. The Powerwall charges from all solar during off-peak, running the house from grid until the battery hits 100%, then it goes into standby until peak time. During peak, it runs the house from battery and exports all solar to the grid until the battery hits reserve. I'll...

During the winter (on SDGE rates) you can still get the difference between the $.24 and $.09 rates on the weekends because the off-peak goes until 2PM. Fill up weekend mornings and discharge in the afternoons. I configured both peak and shoulder times as "peak" in the app, since the price is...

Yep, that did what I wanted, though it feels weird to have my midnight car charging time labeled as “peak.” Cloudy morning, so there wasn’t much solar, but it did the right thing and waited until 10 to charge. It hit full at 1pm, then discharged from 2 until it hit reserve at about 8.

Unfortunately, I can’t set 6-10am to part-peak because it seems that part-peak has to be touching peak. However, I think I found a solution, I’ll see tomorrow how well it works out. If you drag the end of peak to before the beginning, it will reverse and wrap around midnight. So, I set peak to...

Hi, just got my Powerwall last week, and I'm trying to get the time-based schedule set up. I'm on the EV-TOU-5 plan from SDGE, which has a strange midweek schedule during March and April: Midnight-6AM: $0.09 6AM - 10AM: $0.24 10AM - 2PM: $0.09 2PM - Midnight: $0.24 So, my goal is to charge...

Forum posts don't burn things down, but people following your advice might. Just because you're comfortable overloading a circuit, doesn't mean that overloading should be a recommended installation. The NEC has a certain margin for safety. Running at 72A on a circuit rated for 68A continuous...

Why do you keep posting this? Are you trying to burn people's houses down? You can't use #4 wiring for a 90A circuit.

No, you can't use the 90°C column on the table. Even if your wire were rated for it, the HPWC isn't, and you'll have that hot wire melting the plastic bits inside the HPWC. Assuming you ran THWN or similar wire, you're looking at 85A rated, 68A continuous, and the HPWC set at 64. Unless the...

And that's why the difference between kW and kWh is important. The article said: "a 210 kW battery system with roughly 350 kWh of capacity." 350 kWh is how much the battery holds and 210 kW is how fast it can pump out that power. There is nothing strange about having a larger storage capacity...

Did you use a calculator for that math it your dash picture? Sure looks like you didn't. You claim: 80 x 300 = 24,000 left over 24,000 / 441 = 53 Mi projected (My calculator gives 54.42) Now, look at the numbers with the 295 Wh/mi that people have been suggesting: 80 x 295 = 23,600 left over...

You're assuming that the 99.999% number is based on miles and not on trips. If its a percentage of trips, then you're looking at 100,00 trips and probably over a million miles between accidents. At 100,000 miles, you're almost up to human driver safety, and at a million you're better than most...

Unless you've gone 3 months or more (which would be around version 2019.42) there's no reason to worry about it. Not everyone gets every version, and it's common to be a month or more between updates.

Sold, thanks!

Two suggestions: Make sure the ground pin is up, this will make the UMC hang down nicely with less tendency to get loose. My electrician initially installed it the other way, and turned it over when asked. Ask how much extra it costs to run larger wire. It's pretty cheap as they're...

Charge at 40 amps, 25% faster than the 32 amp limit of the new Gen2 UMCs. $250 + shipping (or local pickup in San Diego area) Includes: Gen1 Mobile Connector (with 20 ft cable) NEMA 14-50 adapter NEMA 5-15 adapter I bought an extra UMC so that I could leave one in my garage instead of...