Last night we set the car to charge from midnight to 80%. We also set our powerwall to advanced mode to top it up for our energy needs today. TeslaFi tells me the car charged as normal (found another use for it!) but because I forgot to switch from solar trickle charging 5A to the 16A from the wall charger, it didn't get to where I wanted it. So wish they would let you set the amps from the app!
Plugging in to the charge port, the icon on the charge port went blue and then red. We tried reconnecting a few times with the same result. Then I noticed (see pic) that the top right pin of the charger in the car was different from the top left one. It seems to have some sort of metal cover which is no longer there. The other one seems solid enough. Initially, I thought this was why we couldn't charge. We can charger from a normal wall socket so it seems our charge port is fine. Everyone else have a top right pin that is different from their top left pin?
However, when I went to wrap up the cable on the wall charger, I noticed that this had a flashing red light. On the Gateway, the charger fuse had tripped. I reset the fuse but instead of seeing a red light on the charger go to green, I now had no light at all.
I opened the app to check the powerwall and saw that it was effectively off. It was saying it was on standby at 44% when it should have been near 100% and supplying the house. There was no indication where the house was getting energy from as the power icons in the Power Flow screen were all blank. The powerwall did have its long green light on but it seemed to be dormant. I switched the powerwall off and on again using its switch. After a minute or so, it started supplying the house as normal and is now, half an hour later, working fine it seems.
Wall charger is dead though. Tesla service said send them an email... so now we wait...
Plugging in to the charge port, the icon on the charge port went blue and then red. We tried reconnecting a few times with the same result. Then I noticed (see pic) that the top right pin of the charger in the car was different from the top left one. It seems to have some sort of metal cover which is no longer there. The other one seems solid enough. Initially, I thought this was why we couldn't charge. We can charger from a normal wall socket so it seems our charge port is fine. Everyone else have a top right pin that is different from their top left pin?
However, when I went to wrap up the cable on the wall charger, I noticed that this had a flashing red light. On the Gateway, the charger fuse had tripped. I reset the fuse but instead of seeing a red light on the charger go to green, I now had no light at all.
I opened the app to check the powerwall and saw that it was effectively off. It was saying it was on standby at 44% when it should have been near 100% and supplying the house. There was no indication where the house was getting energy from as the power icons in the Power Flow screen were all blank. The powerwall did have its long green light on but it seemed to be dormant. I switched the powerwall off and on again using its switch. After a minute or so, it started supplying the house as normal and is now, half an hour later, working fine it seems.
Wall charger is dead though. Tesla service said send them an email... so now we wait...
