Still in stages of finishing up install (PWs operational, solar installed but Solar inverter not commissioned, and no PTO) and Tesla Energy won't be back for maintenance issues until week of 14th. Our PWs on the 2nd were at 27% SOC and verified working by the PW team by turning off power briefly and seeing them kick on and house lights came on. Today the 3 PWs are now at 15% just sitting there. First question, does this drainage sound normal?
Bigger question given our current install state is "will our PWs even charge off the grid?" to be able to be useful should we get impacted by the projected SF Bay area PSPS. Would be nice to use the PWs (even if not able to recharge yet from Solar) to keep our refrig operating if needed for 2 days. My husband remembers our installer saying that if the system didn't see any solar charging after 3 days it would charge from the grid. That hasn't happened. The app had been showing we were in Stormwatch Standby mode (with 100% setting) and this morning my husband even set it to BackUp mode thinking it might trigger it to charge from the grid but still no resulting battery charging. I was looking through some of the threads here and wondering is this simply is because we have said we will be applying for the 26% Investment Tax Credit for our system this year and as such our system was set to not allow any charging of batteries from the Grid (someone mentioned 5-year agreement). Hard to believe that would apply if you go into Stormwatch mode.
Our installer was kind enough to reply to a text my husband sent about the charge level in our PWs and he recommended turning off the PWs for now, which we have done. Not sure if we will be affected by the looming PSPS in our area but if there's something we could do to increase the remaining battery level it would be nice.
Apart from the above two questions, I'm wondering based on our circumstances and what you guys know about using your system how we should have our PWs set right now? Being a weekend now no one at Energy to contact and given it's a holiday weekend suspect they won't be back until Tuesday. Thanks.
Bigger question given our current install state is "will our PWs even charge off the grid?" to be able to be useful should we get impacted by the projected SF Bay area PSPS. Would be nice to use the PWs (even if not able to recharge yet from Solar) to keep our refrig operating if needed for 2 days. My husband remembers our installer saying that if the system didn't see any solar charging after 3 days it would charge from the grid. That hasn't happened. The app had been showing we were in Stormwatch Standby mode (with 100% setting) and this morning my husband even set it to BackUp mode thinking it might trigger it to charge from the grid but still no resulting battery charging. I was looking through some of the threads here and wondering is this simply is because we have said we will be applying for the 26% Investment Tax Credit for our system this year and as such our system was set to not allow any charging of batteries from the Grid (someone mentioned 5-year agreement). Hard to believe that would apply if you go into Stormwatch mode.
Our installer was kind enough to reply to a text my husband sent about the charge level in our PWs and he recommended turning off the PWs for now, which we have done. Not sure if we will be affected by the looming PSPS in our area but if there's something we could do to increase the remaining battery level it would be nice.
Apart from the above two questions, I'm wondering based on our circumstances and what you guys know about using your system how we should have our PWs set right now? Being a weekend now no one at Energy to contact and given it's a holiday weekend suspect they won't be back until Tuesday. Thanks.