Real World Powerwall test right now!

[jboy210]

We are having a real-world powerwall tests right now!

T-0
Grid is gone! Power is up. The app looks really strange. PWs are at 100%, Grid Xed out, home using 0.6 kW, solar producing 7.4kW sending all to the house. Hmm. UPSes on computers kicked in.

T + 30 seconds
Solar is shut down. UPSes shut down. Still online with world-wide conference. Still streaming our images, voice. and chat streams to the conference

T + 1:30 seconds - Power is back on. Solar sending 6 KW to grid rest to house. Conference continuing.

I love Solar and Powerwalls. They made this outage a complete non-event.

 

[Electrph]

i am only laughing because after my numerous simulated outage exercises i am anxiosuly awaiting a decent actual power outage .. i know that sounds selfish and maybe horrible ..
but I will probably be as excited as you when it occurs

 

[jboy210]

i am only laughing because after my numerous simulated outage exercises i am anxiosuly awaiting a decent actual power outage .. i know that sounds selfish and maybe horrible ..
but I will probably be as excited as you when it occurs

Ha Ha. It is sort of funny getting excited when the power goes out. But when you buy all this stuff and it works as expected in a real-world outage to keep you online it really is exciting! Especially when you are communicating with people all across the globe and they don't even lose one video frame!

 

[jjrandorin]

I have said this in a few threads on topics around this, but.... a power outage lets us justify all the money we spent on this stuff. Even teslas own website shows a representation of what we want to happen:

 

[getakey]

We are having a real-world powerwall tests right now!

T-0
Grid is gone! Power is up. The app looks really strange. PWs are at 100%, Grid Xed out, home using 0.6 kW, solar producing 7.4kW sending all to the house. Hmm. UPSes on computers kicked in.

T + 30 seconds
Solar is shut down. UPSes shut down. Still online with world-wide conference. Still streaming our images, voice. and chat streams to the conference

T + 1:30 seconds - Power is back on. Solar sending 6 KW to grid rest to house. Conference continuing.

I love Solar and Powerwalls. They made this outage a complete non-event.

Fire related?

 

[jboy210]

Fire related?

Nothing I know of locally. But today the smoke from the Sierras obscures much to the East of me here in the Tri-Valley area.

 

[getakey]

I used to have an office in San Ramon. Now I'm in El Dorado Hills. Smoke came in here today too. Friend has home within a mile or so of the edge of the River fire. Keeping fingers crossed

 

[jboy210]

I used to have an office in San Ramon. Now I'm in El Dorado Hills. Smoke came in here today too. Friend has home within a mile or so of the edge of the River fire. Keeping fingers crossed

Stay safe. These fires are unpredictable and fast.

This morning I did a 4 miles run/walk and could see from the Pleasanton ridge to the Altamont pass. A minute ago I went out to get the mail and just about passed out from the smoke, Visibility is under 1 mile.

 

[GaitherBill]

We finally had a legit power outage the other week for a little over an hour. First one since PTO.

We weren’t home for it.

I know I’m not the only one here hoping for an extended outage.

 

[Laketime]

Were you running off solar/batts when the power died? I find that if we are on grid and lose power there is a half second dim while the switchover occurs but all of my cable boxes and wifi drop and then take a few seconds to come back. No complaints really but If I was on a video call it would drop.

 

[jboy210]

Were you running off solar/batts when the power died? I find that if we are on grid and lose power there is a half second dim while the switchover occurs but all of my cable boxes and wifi drop and then take a few seconds to come back. No complaints really but If I was on a video call it would drop.

This possibility of dropping a connection is why we have UPSes on computers and all of the networking gear (Cable model, router, switch) Our Wifi is from Access Points powered via POE from the switch, so if the switch has the power they work and we experience no dropped Wifi. In this case, we were using our desktop systems for the video conference, and all of those have UPSes. The UPSes were installed per the previous forum thread on ensuring that power stays up when the Powerwall walls fill up and the grid has failed, and Powerwall GW uses frequency shifting to shut down solar production. (Suggestion: That thread is really long. Maybe we should make the reasons for the UPS a separate pinned topic)

 

[charlesj]

...

I love Solar and Powerwalls. They made this outage a complete non-event.

You mean you had an event even thought it was a non-event?

I am waiting for one at evening time so I can turn on my LED landscape lighting.

 

[roblab]

i am only laughing because after my numerous simulated outage exercises i am anxiosuly awaiting a decent actual power outage .. i know that sounds selfish and maybe horrible ..
but I will probably be as excited as you when it occurs

You need to move to Napa Valley. We have two or three power outages a week. Just had three with company here. As you said, wouldn't have known but for the blip and the app showing it was down.

 

[Zabe]

Powerwall's with no solar here. We do not even get a blip. The app notification is the only thing that tells us.

 

[GaitherBill]

Were you running off solar/batts when the power died? I find that if we are on grid and lose power there is a half second dim while the switchover occurs but all of my cable boxes and wifi drop and then take a few seconds to come back. No complaints really but If I was on a video call it would drop.

I’ve got a UPS for our main bit of network gear. The router and main switch.

The Fios ONT has it’s own.

Everything else hasn’t had an issue as far as I know.

 

[charlesj]

... I find that if we are on grid and lose power there is a half second dim while the switchover occurs but all of my cable boxes and wifi drop and then take a few seconds to come back. ...

It takes my modem and router much longer to reboot; haven't timed them And, yes, Tivo takes even longer and screws up a recording session.

 

[jboy210]

It takes my modem and router much longer to reboot; haven't timed them And, yes, Tivo takes even longer and screws up a recording session.

Charles.

Based on yours and other stories I decided to get a UPS for Tivo. Took forever to find one in stock. I guess a lot of people are buying them.

 

[charlesj]

Charles.

Based on yours and other stories I decided to get a UPS for Tivo. Took forever to find one in stock. I guess a lot of people are buying them.

Yes, because I recommended it.

Hopefully your tv service hub doesn't go down when the grid or your sector does as then nothing helps unless you have satellite service. but then not sure if Tivo is compatible with sat TV