Recent content by furuike

I have dollar for dollar net metering but not kWh for kWh. I have to buy at a rate roughly double what I can sell for (about 14¢ vs 6.5¢) because my utility pays me only the generation fee, not the transmission fees when I export. What this means is that there is some economic benefit for my...

I live in totality zone. Production dropped to 0.0kW, no fooling.

Nice touch labeling eclipse time in the daily logs and showing the forecast icon as the sun in totality!

I have the Netzero app, and I'm a bit confused how to use the diagnostics. I understand I need to login to my gateway. The app asks me for my gateway password and the IP address. I give it both but it says it cannot connect. I know this works because I also use the Powerwall Dashboard and it...

My automation screen says I've not given myself the ability to change powerwall settings, only read data. How do I change this so I can use automations?

When you do this, do you not lose the ability to manage the wall connector separately? There's are some menus on that separate connector page I used to have that would let me change HPWC settings like Wifi or power sharing.

This happens to me too sometimes, I think it's just a bug. Often it will be correct, only to change later.

You say you have 5.3kW of solar roof and 5.2kW of other PV, are these connected as strings to inverters? Do you have microinverters? I ask because it's the inverter's responsibility to move the string-connected PV to a low power point on their I-V curve when the battery starts getting full...

The cost of solar panels have fallen so much that microinverters now represent a significant part of the solar install. If you have little shading (true for me), then an inverter with 4 MPPT string trackers is often a way easier install and fewer materials. Microinverters are also another item...

Hi, Last Saturday I took delivery of a model Y, so I now have two Tesla EVs along with solar and a Powerwall Plus. One nice thing about this is, since my utility sells me one kWhr for 14¢ yet only buys my excess for 6.5¢ or so, I can now dump extra electricity into my cars once my Powerwall...

Why not just place it on some bricks, and then attach it to the wood to prevent tipping? This is what my installer did in my basement, because they did not want to risk mounting it to a wall and have problems later if they come to find there was a framing problem. It's less risky.

You could always just set your car to charge manually when your Powerwall gets near full. If you set a charge rate that is right for your inverter size and battery, your PW will fill in when solar power reduces due to clouds. This just requires a but more manual management.

I had a Powerwall+ with 8.6kW solar installed late last year, and now I'm finally getting good sunny weather to see how it performs. I have confirmed the 7.6kW on grid limit, as well as the 9.6kW off grid limit. Today I was doing a test when the battery was at a 95% state of charge and full...

I just got updated too. Darn.

If the board is indeed just two layers, then there would be no prepreg, just FR4, Cu, and soldermask layers, and as you say as much as 1.6mm between the traces. But then I don't understand why OP says 0.38mm if the issue is between traces on the top and bottom. Maybe a through via? I guess...