Recent content by Vines

How do you think the system tells the difference between loads on and loads off? To the PW system, there are just 3 points to measure, at the Solar, at the Main consumption CT's and at the Powerwalls. The system cannot tell the difference between you using power between the solar and home load...

This is very true, and also when there is plenty of work, why take on jobs with more risk if you don't have to. We have just modified our policy on this and will now add PV or ESS to an existing system that was not installed by our company within reason. We will add exclusions to these...

My understanding is this will happen every 3 months, to maintain the SOC accuracy with the Powerwall 3. The system will discharge to 20%, then hold it for about 2 hours.

Nice, same here in PG&E territory.

Here is what mine looks like. Looks like you are missing the slider that adjusts the reserve for VPP.

Ask them to check alignment, toe issues can easily cause a car to feel unstable, and some Teslas had bad alignment from the factory or maybe one of the delivery drivers hit a curb.

That is the menu where you can turn on and off the VPP, and also to set the reserve percentage of the VPP event. Also you can select the storm watch or VPP as the priority event.

Agreed, I see the 42 kW sustained then the reported spike in home usage. I was intending on reassurance compared with my initial email where I thought things were more serious.

This is your best solution really to have panel limits set so that you do not trip the main breaker. If your house went into sustained load such that the limit was exceeded, the limit is not set. Have your installer set panel limits so in the future the Powerwalls would stop charging to meet...

Have you had any VPP events this month?

This thread is about the Virtual Power Plant program, and those only happen when the grid is up. Not sure what you are trying to communicate here.

Usually it takes a significant electrical fault to trip the main breaker, so be careful. What size is the breaker? Have you had any recent construction or landscaping between the installation and now? I would have an electrician come to inspect your breaker panels for signs of arcing or damage...

It sounds like you want to specifically run ON GRID. To do that you want to turn off the breakers that feed your powerwall and solar inverters if any. The gateway may throw errors, but it will not be able to deploy any power. However the gateway hardware will still be connected, so this will...

I see the language as well that there is to be one event per month, and no more than 35 per year.

I also got in the DSGS with a very short wait just about a week. I did not hear about any events in May this year.