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No storm watch events this year...
- Thread starter sorka
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No storm watch for me either this winter so far either. I set the reserve to 100% a few days ago in anticipation of the weather. Lost power a couple of times for a few seconds.
Argh! Curse you Storm Watch!!!! Why did you kick in NOW? After the power outage, and in the middle of peak hours too!!!
Also activated for me. According to the status in starts at 9:00 pm, the same time I made my post above. The notification however was from 34 minutes ago, which is in line with the 9:40 that others reported.
Maybe someone from Tesla read the posts and figured out they had forgotten to press a button ;-)
It's the National Weather Service that controls when these are activated. You can find alerts for your county by scrolling down here:
And then cross-check against Tesla's criteria for Storm Watch:
The "warning" vs "advisory" level is usually what matters for triggering Storm Watch.
And then cross-check against Tesla's criteria for Storm Watch:
The "warning" vs "advisory" level is usually what matters for triggering Storm Watch.
we lucked out. Lost power for 2 hours, but rest of my street is still down. I'm still getting the PG&E alerts and they are saying estimated time to get it back is 2pm tomorrow. That would be a 48 hour outage. When power was out for me, the PWs estimated I had 24 hour supply which woulld have got me to at least 3pm today. I think the sun was out for abit after power came back up so likely I would have more than 24 hours. Knowing the power would be off longer, I could cut back some things, but with hardly any ssun today not sure how long I could have made it
Same here in South San Jose: no storm watch, power went out at 6:45PM with our powerwall at 30%(our minimum). Even if we had set the reserve at 100% 4
days ago, we didn’t net much solar power due to the rain & clouds.
Haha. My Storm Watch didn't activate until the power had already gone out. When I noticed it was charging from the grid during Part-Peak hours, I opted out of the event because I was still at a pretty high state of charge - more than enough to make it through most of the next day if the power went out again.
skepticcyclist
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For PG&E members in NorCal, is the separate option to charge from the grid available?
It was for me, I'm down in LA under LADWP. I just set it ON on Sunday morning and moved reserve to 100% and it slowly brought it up from 60%. It even tapered the charge rate as it approached 100%. The rain was just starting at that time and was raining sideways by the time it finished in the early afternoon.
It was for me, I'm down in LA under LADWP. I just set it ON on Sunday morning and moved reserve to 100% and it slowly brought it up from 60%. It even tapered the charge rate as it approached 100%. The rain was just starting at that time and was raining sideways by the time it finished in the early afternoon.
