The yellow triangle with the "!" makes me think somethings not right...right? It certainly isn't working for me - we've had severe weather alerts (and 5 power outages on Feb 2 alone), but I never saw it charging from the grid.
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Mine has that same graphic and it works properly. We had a storm last week and it charged from the grid in anticipation.The yellow triangle with the "!" makes me think somethings not right...right? It certainly isn't working for me - we've had severe weather alerts (and 5 power outages on Feb 2 alone), but I never saw it charging from the grid.
Mine has that same graphic and it works properly. We had a storm last week and it charged from the grid in anticipation.
You know, Tesla rarely disappoints on their inability to know as much as this forum.Interesting. I called Tesla Powerwall Support about it yesterday. The person I talked to didn't know much (anything?) about Storm Watch. She put me on hold to talk to someone knowledgeable, came back and said "Storm Watch is only activated during natural disasters." I pointed out that the whole function of Storm Watch is to charge the battery before a potential disaster, or a bad "Storm". She didn't argue, just said she'd open a ticket and someone would get back to me.
I'm not holding my breath.
I have had 3 recent Winter Storm Warnings issued by the National Weather Service and Storm Watch has never triggered.
That's odd that mine doesn't..... and we've definitely had a few high wind warnings recently. The only other thing I can think of is since I have mine set to backup only mode there might be some logic in the code to automatically preclude me from a storm watch trigger. Even in backup only mode, my PW's are often at 95-96% and it would be nice to have them topped off to 110% with grid power. I tried to test it once but latency may have invalidated the test.
We have a High Wind Warning in place right now, and a Flash Flood Watch goes into effect tonight. Thus far, Storm Watch hasn't activated. We're using "Balanced" mode.
Meanwhile, according to the Tesla app, our Powerwalls have been at 0% charge since late last week. Our solar panels continue to be buried by snow and ice ("Sierra cement"), so we haven't had any solar production for the last 11 days, even on bright, sunny days. That's in spite of my best efforts to pull some of the snow off the roof, without actually climbing onto the roof. Thankfully, so far, the grid has stayed up.
Interestingly, ever since the Powerwalls got down to 0% reported charge, I've noticed from the app that they've been using a bit of grid power to keep them "alive", 0.4 kWh yesterday for instance.
You should look into getting a snow roof rake to help clear the panels. Only about half my panels can be reached with my roof rake but I've found that if I clear snow off between the gutter and the bottom panel, it allows other snow that is higher up to slide down as it melts. Of course the slope of the roof helps too.We have a High Wind Warning in place right now, and a Flash Flood Watch goes into effect tonight. Thus far, Storm Watch hasn't activated. We're using "Balanced" mode.
Meanwhile, according to the Tesla app, our Powerwalls have been at 0% charge since late last week. Our solar panels continue to be buried by snow and ice ("Sierra cement"), so we haven't had any solar production for the last 11 days, even on bright, sunny days. That's in spite of my best efforts to pull some of the snow off the roof, without actually climbing onto the roof. Thankfully, so far, the grid has stayed up.
Interestingly, ever since the Powerwalls got down to 0% reported charge, I've noticed from the app that they've been using a bit of grid power to keep them "alive", 0.4 kWh yesterday for instance.
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Last Fall, we had an NWS wind warning of some sort, and Storm Watch activated briefly before I turned it off. (Solar production was not an issue at that time, I didn't want to use Peak electricity to charge, and I later turned the Storm Watch feature back on.)I'm curious if certain utilities allow Tesla to engage Storm Watch, so while the NWS sent out a severe alert, maybe the electricity providers can choose to either support Storm Watch or not. Just a thought.
I created a makeshift snow rake by attaching a push broom to a pole, and was able to get a fraction of the snow off a lower panel. The problem is the thick layer of ice that's stuck up there. And our roof pitch isn't that steep (3/12, I believe). We've had over three feet of snow in less than two weeks, and fairly cold nights. With all of the rain that we're now expecting, people around here are worried about ice dams on their roofs. Maybe the rain will liberate the ice that's stuck to our panels.You should look into getting a snow roof rake to help clear the panels. Only about half my panels can be reached with my roof rake but I've found that if I clear snow off between the gutter and the bottom panel, it allows other snow that is higher up to slide down as it melts. Of course the slope of the roof helps too.
I've wondered whether that might be the case for me. We don't get USPS mail delivery here (we have to use PO boxes), so our physical address technically doesn't have a ZIP code. As a result, depending on the mapping software, our street address gets assigned to any one of three different, possible ZIP codes, one of which actually belongs to a town in the nearby Mojave Desert.Is it possible that your address in Tesla's system is not your residence address? I don't know for sure where Tesla gets their storm information, but the NWS might have different regions that delineate between your profile address and installation address. Just a random guess.
Yes, sure enough, on tesla.com, my installation address has a Mojave Desert ZIP code! Not sure what can be done. I'm going to call Tesla.
Yes, in your main tesla.com account page, you should see both your car and your Powerwall(s). You may want to call Tesla Energy for support on adding this, though it's not a big deal. The main benefit is that it shows your Powerwall info and the purchase/order agreements that you signed. But you can't actually control anything - that's what the app is for.All I see when I log into tesla.com is my car - do you see energy stuff there? Maybe my account's not configured correctly.