Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

[SteveO332]

@SteveO332
Will you rent your CT on Turo or any other rent platform?
How much do you think you can make from June-Sept. selling PowerShare back to the grid?
I’m looking at this aa an opportunity to make some revenue back to cover the Foundation Price tag.
123kWh maybe 70kWh to the grid on high demand days. It could be $2-$5 per KWh.
I was thinking only do Turo 2 day rents at a time. If the summer takes off with grid demand. Then I’ll take that now focus on Turo during the winter.
Thoughts anyone
PowerShare and Grid Pimping. What say you?

Hell yea! Sounds like a great plan. I've always wanted to Turo but that idea goes right out the window the moment I take possession of my vehicles because I end up falling in love with it. I've never been able to treat it like a business asset, rather, it ends up being a third child.

I'm not entirely sure that the CT will discharge on an event like the powerwalls do. I'm still waiting to test that myself or to see if any others document their experience. I haven't found anyone with PW3s, CT, and Powershare.

I did notice in the app that you can add it already (Powershare), but it requires that you connect to the Tesla Backup Gateway. Since we don't log into that to manage the system (with Powerwall 3 you log into the primary powerwall instead), I can't even connect to the backup gateway. It sees the SSID, but fails to connect.

I figured I'd just wait to trouble shoot that once I have the CT.

 

[GWord]

I wonder if I just haven’t noticed it yet. Or does the charge rate increase at a lower battery percentage level?

They do taper as they get full. If from the grid my PW2s charge at a 5+kW rate each unless >90% or so.

 

[shingles]

Each night when it hits 9pm my powerwalls will ramp up charging from grid. The power wall charge rate will regulate itself for no more than 17.8 kw total house draw from grid. If I am saying using 2kw, 15.8kw will go to the powerwalls, split into four.

 

[Jones1]

Since I charge my EV every night. Is probably why I haven’t seen my PW’s charge more than 5.8kW from the grid. It’s usually charging at the same time. Adjusting house demand to PW charge rate.

 

[shingles]

Since I charge my EV every night. Is probably why I haven’t seen my PW’s charge more than 5.8kW from the grid. It’s usually charging at the same time. Adjusting house demand to PW charge rate.

That's probably it.

The powerwalls are juicing up right now...

 

[Jones1]

I still haven’t gotten Grid Approval. So they are limiting my charge rate from grid. I’m still charging my PW’s at 5.8kW while my Vehicle isn’t charging.

 

[DrewHou]

Update:

Tesla finally got my system up and running again. As I and several others speculated was true. My powerwalls were doing an update and something went wrong and it pretty much did a factory reset on my entire gateway. When this happens the only way to get them set back up is with a ticket to Tier 2 support. It took 6 days of no solar and backup for them to get to my ticket (including the weekend). I was also told this is very common occurrence. Seems like there should be some redundancy in the system or at least a process that’s easier than tier 2 to upload the settings back.

Anyways I am just happy to have my solar back on.

 

[DrewHou]

Also just for reference my software version is now 24.4.2 and prior to the issue it was 23.44.0

 

[SteveO332]

I’m on 24.4.2-1 myself, not sure when it updated. Do you normally get a notification when it does an update?

 

[DrewHou]

I’m on 24.4.2-1 myself, not sure when it updated. Do you normally get a notification when it does an update?

Never got a notification for an update. I wouldn’t have known it this time had it not bricked my gateway.

 

[DrewHou]

Was trying to figure out why my powerwalls were not charging from the grid and noticed this is how things are setup now. I guess tomorrow I have to reach out to support again and get a ticket raised again. Unless someone else knows how to get grid charging back?

 

[shingles]

You can configure that by using the Tesla One app. You'll need to log in to your gateway, but it's configurable in there.

 

[Jones1]

Yep. 5.8kW
I need to message Tesla to see what’s up with my approval to power on from Centerpoint. When I find the time.

 

[DrewHou]

You can configure that by using the Tesla One app. You'll need to log in to your gateway, but it's configurable in there.

Fixed! Thanks I had never used that app before good to know.

 

[DrewHou]

Finally all set back up. Had to logout and log back into Netzero as well as it was still trying to pull that African time zone but once I logged back in everything was good. Hopefully these are all good reference points for anyone that has a failed SW update next

 

[wiltoking]

Hope you’re all getting those big bucks right now!

 

[Jones1]

Hope you’re all getting those big bucks right now!

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Thanks I had export solar only. I just switched it over to export from powerwall. I’ve only been selling extra Solar production to the grid.

 

[Jones1]

With Tesla Electric Unlimited Vehicle Charging. You can not see the current Sell rate. That really sucks. You can only see what you set the plan to show. It’s not like the regular Tesla Electric plan.

 

[Jones1]

My Coworker is getting $4 right now. Hopefully TE isn’t Screwing me over.

 

[Jones1]

I was typing something long. It kept freezing. This PWA *sugar* sucks. TMC needs to bring the app back.