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All of the settings will not be available when you first fire up. The system does some learning and then opens the advanced settings for you. Mine took 4-5 days as I remember.
We used the Balanced mode of Advanced time based control since there is not "scheduled" version of self-powered. By using this mode, we can power the house with Powerwalls as much as possible but we can schedule it to stop and switch over to the grid at certain times. For example, ours is programmed to stop using Powerwalls at 3 am. This allows solar and Powerwalls to power the house for over 22 hours a day but also allows us to charge a car or two from the grid. Typically, if the Powerwalls have been used and the SoC is close to the reserve, the Powerwalls will remain off from 3 am until up 9am. If the Powerwalls still have a high SoC, they will kick in earlier and help charge another car while solar kicks in.Actually the app settings are pretty simple.
There is a Reserve setting that you put which does not allow PW SOC to go below
I set my reserve at 35% (3 PWs). I'm usually in Cost Saving, but change to Backup only if storm is coming so I don't get down to reserve without beinng able to charge due to cloud cover
- Backup only - this wil ensure SOC gets to 100% and stays there as long as this setting is on
- Self-powered - this uses PW to power as much of your house as it can until Reserve is hit
- Advanced time based control
- Balanced - I'm not as familiar with this setting
- Cost saving - cost saving will only use PW during Peak times and charge during Off peak or Shoulder
It's really easy to set up the ToU schedule in the app, assuming there is only one peak period. We set the peak period to exactly match the actual period. This ensures Powerwalls well let the house and all possible production is expired to the grid. We set the part-peak/shoulder period to be longer than the actual period since we want to be self-powered as much as possible, export as much as possible and minimize our grid usage.Great question. I'm not sure if the OP has this situation, but I am a bit confused on how to set up the PWs where there is TOU controls. In my utility, I get charged 8 cents or so for peak, 5.2 cents for off peak, and 5.7 cents for shoulder. I've read some people suggest treating the shoulder time as off peak, instead of setting up the app to recognize all three different TOU settings. Your thoughts?
It's really easy to set up the ToU schedule in the app, assuming there is only one peak period. We set the peak period to exactly match the actual period. This ensures Powerwalls well let the house and all possible production is expired to the grid. We set the part-peak/shoulder period to be longer than the actual period since we want to be self-powered as much as possible, export as much as possible and minimize our grid usage.
I'm usually in Cost Saving, but change to Backup only if storm is coming so I don't get down to reserve without beinng able to charge due to cloud cover
Great question. I'm not sure if the OP has this situation, but I am a bit confused on how to set up the PWs where there is TOU controls. In my utility, I get charged 8 cents or so for peak, 5.2 cents for off peak, and 5.7 cents for shoulder. I've read some people suggest treating the shoulder time as off peak, instead of setting up the app to recognize all three different TOU settings. Your thoughts?
I know this is off topic, but I cant help but look at your electricity rates and marvel at how "reasonable" they are. "very very cheap" electricity from a utlity in CA is like 12-15 cents, or, double+ of yours. "peak" out here is usually somewhere between high 30 cents, to low 50 cents.
Kinda why tesla cant even keep up with demand from just CA.