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Blue drips from bottom right of inverter onto top right of powerwall 2+
- Thread starter justsomerandom
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To clarify, because Google will not be helpful with `G48`: your inverter is leaking coolant.
Matt-FL
Member
I'd also suggest putting something under to catch the coolant. It is probably corrosive and may eat through the paint on the PW.
That's coolant. Apparently sometimes they're overfilled at the factory and then on initial power on the excessive fluid is pushed out. If it stops dripping you should be fine.
Well update.
Mid July friendly guy came out and reset something and flipped something and looked at his iPad a minute and said I was good to go. I thought cool because I was still making power. There was no clipping since may but I chalked that up to Phx dust on the panels. Two days after he left there was no production at all. I called immediately and at least 2 or 3 times after it failed. Turns out tier one didn’t open a case until a week after it failed and I was told 10-14 days to hear anything. At 14 days they clarified business days. Then they said they would wscalate to their supervisor and I’d hear more in 3-5 days. I asked if they meant business days. Long story long I have heard nothing from anyone. No callbacks, no info on my case etc. I’m getting ghosted as a cash buyer with a non functional well taken care of inverter in a garage as opposed to west facing full sun in Phx. What do I do to make stuff happen.
Mid July friendly guy came out and reset something and flipped something and looked at his iPad a minute and said I was good to go. I thought cool because I was still making power. There was no clipping since may but I chalked that up to Phx dust on the panels. Two days after he left there was no production at all. I called immediately and at least 2 or 3 times after it failed. Turns out tier one didn’t open a case until a week after it failed and I was told 10-14 days to hear anything. At 14 days they clarified business days. Then they said they would wscalate to their supervisor and I’d hear more in 3-5 days. I asked if they meant business days. Long story long I have heard nothing from anyone. No callbacks, no info on my case etc. I’m getting ghosted as a cash buyer with a non functional well taken care of inverter in a garage as opposed to west facing full sun in Phx. What do I do to make stuff happen.
Does the inverter's wifi SSID show up? Should start with TeslaPV_.
If so, Connecting to Tesla Solar Inverter | Tesla Support to connect to the inverter. Once logged in, you can see status info and such.
If so, Connecting to Tesla Solar Inverter | Tesla Support to connect to the inverter. Once logged in, you can see status info and such.
Just follow the instructions.
An arc fault message would have nothing to do with low or missing coolant.
I'd log in, check the status (while the sun is up) assuming that it's not dead and you can actually log in (follow the instructions).
Depending on what you see after that, you might consider a reset.
Also, I'd open up the door, check the coolant lines (they have green clips) and make sure none of them are partly out. You should determine the original source of the leak. It should be obvious. If you discover the source of the leak and it's something simple, then buy a jug of G48 and fill through the allen screw at the top, then do a full reset.
Not guarantees, but with Tesla, sometimes you just need to take matters into your own hands. Tesla could take months to fix this.
Not guarantees, but with Tesla, sometimes you just need to take matters into your own hands. Tesla could take months to fix this.
CrazyRabbit
Active Member
Don't worry about arc-faults. What they meant is that there might be an appliance or something most likely with bad motor brushes that are polluting the ac line making the inverter think there's an arc fault. An actual arc fault could be serious but I seriously doubt this is what's going on with your inverter. I'll bet the coolant went low and that a temperature error occurred shutting the inverter down either because it ruined it or because the coolant needs to be topped off (after fixing the leak) and the inverter reaset.
Ok so I opened it up and reset the circuit breaker, joined the network and put in the case sensitive password and it said incorrect password.
It looks like the only residue is under the brass nut.
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Quick update. Less than a week ago I spoke to Tesla on Thursday. One lady took the time to look very close at my previous notes and the way it was initially written up in the 3rd week of July. She had an issue trying to get me to sign into the inverter. It turns out inverter vs powerwall + inverter was different so she did a 3 way call with the powerwall guy. Here’s the interesting part………….. they said when the work/issue order/ticket was created the origional person didn’t put in a priority code/level. This, according to them, left me in a state of limbo where I wasn’t on a list and would never get a call. They said I would hear something by the next day but I didn’t. Then the weekend passed and now it’s Monday and I got an email to call and schedule. I did and now the soonest the “crew” can come out for 2 days of work is mid October. So for an issue that started in June it may get resolved in October.
