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As a bit of an update, I ended up doing 3 coats at days 0, 1, and 4. It now looks semi-glossy in an inexpensive furniture store kind of way. As I said, the wood, at least in my Model 3, isn't the finest quality. It looks like it has had water damage / mold in it, really. However, now it looks...

The trim in the 2018 M3 I just bought recently was looking dry and faded. I bought some tung oil from amazon (Amazon.com). I used a paper towel, folded over to cover the opening of the bottle, and tipped the bottle upside down briefly to introduce a small circle of oil to the paper towel and...

To be clear, the powerwall is the battery. It is a big, heavy 1 meter x 1 meter x 20 cm box with a green LED light strip down the side and vents on left and right. You might have more than one. Don't open that! When you purchase a power wall, you also get a separate Tesla gateway. The power...

So we’ve been charging via J-1772 lately because the garage is full of a painting project for Christmas. Obviously when using a J-1772 charger there is no button to push. Option # 1: get the charge cable first then approach the car. In this time (5-10 seconds), the car has gone to sleep too...

I have an Eaton for use with my computer. It works just fine with the Powerwalls for the last year or two, and will bridge the gap in the rare circumstances when the power wall response time isn’t fast enough to avoid a momentary but data loss causing drop in power. Im still looking for a...

AM / PM inversion?

Personally, I feel that if the duck curve gets so bad that noon time wholesale energy prices go negative, NEM rates should also go negative. Solar only customers with no shutoff can pay to put more energy on the grid. New solar installs should include batteries, and existing ones ought to look...

Mine took a while to sort itself out in 2018. I think the installer needed to phone up Tesla to register the rest of the system so that the unit wasn’t being so timid. I’m sure the many software updates since could have helped. It does take a while to build up a record of operation so that the...

Only? My house uses 0.4 kW when full. It uses more if we start running major appliances. Buy a killawatt meter, and figure out where that energy is going! That 2 kW is going to add up quick!

I’m up to 22.18 I’ve been having a problem the last two days where the powerwalls stop charging long before peak time and consequently run low on energy towards the end of peak and I end up paying peak pricing: I also recently switched on the PGE virtual power plant feature. I’m not sure if it...

I had a similar problem. The dark grey material has nothing behind it for a good 1/2". I needed 3 pads on top of each other. I ended up sticking them to the back of the seat though. Maybe not the best choice, since it will get knocked off if ever the seats are down. The rattle is brutal because...

Well, lets start with PG&E, which only covers about half of California. Its market cap is $22B, but if you are going to have a buyout, you might have to pay a 20-50% premium. Next there is the problem that it is currently losing $6.8B per year as a continuing business, and nearly all of its...

The maps are of course a critical feature, but I really must also sing the praises of being able to watch Netflix when stuck waiting in the car. Doctor / dentist appointments now have you waiting in the car rather than a waiting room. Also, for any kids events like scouts when you find yourself...

The catastrophic deadly wildfires would occur in Virginia too, if it didn't get any rain from May - Nov. like California. Annual 6 months of drought has its problems! It is not a policy failure. It is a natural phenomenon. It is a difficult thing to manage, and should not be used as evidence of...

Powerwalls are not sufficient to cut the cord. You can't store energy from summer to low producing months. If you beef up your solar to produce sufficiently in the winter, then you will be wasting most of your energy in the summer, because it is far more than you can use. It would be better to...

Solar production swings day by day. So, you'd need a couple of days worth of storage for the summer months. In the winter, you probably won't be able to keep up with usage, because solar production is so much lower. If you ramp up production with more panels, you will be producing 5x more solar...