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I am too much of a control freak, that's not enough money for me to give Tesla basically full control of my PW and my usage habits. lol I am happy knowing that with my current setup, I drive at zero energy cost and will get negative electric bill each month, and have full control of my stuff.

Get all your windows tinted including the windshield (I was a non believe for a LONG time, but I am 100% on board now). It's not going to keep the peak temps down if you are parked outside for 8/10 hours in the summer. But it's going to keep it much nicer when you are driving and for shorter...

So technically speaking, it's not fast enough... depending on what source or where you read, the whole setup will kick in anywhere from ~100ms to 1-2 seconds. Either way, UPS transfer time is typically 5-10ms or faster. Your PC and things like that won't stay on, depending on how sensitive it...

Works for me this way. BTW, I've noticed on the model X, the rear air does not start blowing until I get "start" the car (step on brake, enter code).

Those that want on VPP... any concerns about the warranty? It looks like if you enroll in VPP of any sort, even though there's still a 10yr warranty, there is a throughput cap at 37.8MWh. If I use my last month's through put of the powerwall (I assume in/out), it looks to be about 470kWh...

I know this is old hat for many of you, but I am super excited by negative electric bills. -$17 this month on Amigo energy. Total actual usage during this time was 1997kWh, 515kWh was car charging over night. A little over 700kWh of usage was on solar.

You can configure that by using the Tesla One app. You'll need to log in to your gateway, but it's configurable in there.

That's probably it. The powerwalls are juicing up right now...

Each night when it hits 9pm my powerwalls will ramp up charging from grid. The power wall charge rate will regulate itself for no more than 17.8 kw total house draw from grid. If I am saying using 2kw, 15.8kw will go to the powerwalls, split into four.

Did you buy your vehicle pre-owned from a non tesla dealership? Looks like it could be GPS location device... one of those "theft recovery" systems that dealerships love to sell you.

Do you have sentry mode turned on? If so, turn it off at home. If you have sentry mode on, the car stays awake and it'll do what it does and make noises. It's fine. But turn off sentry. Also for all the noises...

You and I are in the same part of the country and I have exact same thought process as well. If I can have another battery pack to utilize after a storm, that would make me very happy. The Supercharger closest to me is on the same grid as the hospital right next door to it. After Harvey, that...

If/when the refresh model y has powershare, I am definitely going to to get one. I suppose I would consider another model x if/when a refresh occurs with powershare and if the price stays in the current ranges.

It's fine and it's pretty common. I am not smart enough to know all the chemistry that's happening and the math behind the BMS... but your charger IS stopping at set percentage... but after it settles a while... it can go up or it can go down.

The only BMW currently on sale that's got a normal grill is the 8 series. The M8 Grand Coupe is nice looking. :)

If the refresh Model Y has PowerShare, I am buying another Model Y. If the refresh Y does not have PowerShare, I'll probably buy the ID.Buzz. :). While I like the Rivians, seem their software needs more baking time. BMW style is so extreme to me right now, it's a non starter for me... and I...

Yes https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/shop/FFWA_E351001_Electric_Vehicle_Supply_Equipment_UL_Product_iQ.pdf

I signed up for 36 months! Is it possible that they are buying back at $0.03 from us but selling it to another customer for whatever the retail is? I don't know how this industry works but have often wondered how it works or how they can make money. I have to assume that the wholesale rate...

Same here on Amigo (they are run by same people as JE). Even on a cloudy day like today, there's more than enough product to still send a bit back to grid.

I am really enjoying the free nights. Before getting my PW, I was with Energy Texas with buy back @ $0.03. One nice days, I could charge my batteries and car, but have nothing to sell back. I did enjoy that I was essentially off grid for most days. But it was a bit "stressful" since we have...

Range is an ESTIMATE. It's not BS, it's not fraud, it's not any of those things. It is an ESTIMATE. Range estimates can be based on SO many things... weather, temp, wind, tires, driving style, charging condition, battery temp when charging, battery temp when done charging, cell balance, etc...

You should return it and buy the tesla unit. :) The cost difference seems to be only $50. I don't think that sort of delta is worth any potential headaches down the road.

130 Wh/mi is impressive indeed!

Yeah, I don't expect a UPS experience for sure. It was just the first time I've had a firmware update drop the load. Eh, nothing's perfect, so not real worried, just interesting. I will say at like 1 in the morning, I had random thoughts like "oh man, did the batteries break?"

Had a weird thing happen this morning at 1AM. I was woking up because I heard my UPS beep. I thought the power went out, but it didn't make sense because I was already on battery. It was a short period, probably 1-2 seconds, long enough for Alexa to power off and back on (LOL). Normally if...

Have you considered other installers instead of Tesla to give you some options on powerwall? If you are interested I can introduce you to the guy that did my solar and powerwall. He will give you a straight up answer. He is an old friend of mine and won’t bullshit you or pressure you.

It’s because for most homes down here, the brick is just a veneer. There is not much structural strength. The problem is there is also probably an air gap between the brick and the studs so that they can’t actually just secure through the bricks than to the stud.

Storm watch actually worked with this storm blowing through. I have 4 PW2 and I saw 15.5 kW charging rate when storm watch fired off.

Again, this is just me: every single time I bought a car and did not get the one with the most HP, thinking oh it's "fast enough" or "oh I am being responsible and saving a few bucks"... I have ALWAYS regretted it. It's not that I am a speed demon on the street... I'm not here drag racing...

I bought the Plaid simply because I wanted the HP and acceleration. That's it. The LR functionally would work exactly the same, but knowing myself, I'd always just say "man, wished I had bought the one with the more HP". But that's me... The other way to look at this is, you are saying some...

Doubtful (on range impact or life span impact). The car is already using the cameras pretty much all the time. That's how you can record clips when you honk the horn (for example).

For that that switched to free nights: when you setup time based control in the App, was there actually some sort of lag before it started behaving as you expected? There's a note in user guide that suggest that it might not work as expected for a period of time. thx

Was there any reason you guys chose Just Energy vs Amigo for free nights? I know Just is the parent company to Amigo, but was curious.

One thing I am considering is to change the off-peak time in the settings... so instead of 9P-7A, change it to maybe 12A-7A or something like that. Delay the charging of the battery so that it doesn't stay at 100% for long periods, but also enough to charge to full.

That would be the answer for paranoid people like me... let me set max charge to 90% or 95%, then I would be happy...

I am ac I am generally that way about the car... just charge it when i need it. But I do have the max generally set at 80%. I think there's ~ 5% of reserve on the top end of the PW, so you are right, 100% isn't truly 100%. I wish Tesla would let us set max charge on the powerwall... then I...

I have mine set at 50% reserve mostly because of paranoia. I could probably drop it down to 30% most days. My concern is that I think it will sit at 100% for long periods of time. If the Powerwalls were LFP, I wouldn't worry about it. I suppose if I am on free nights, I could purposely set...

Question for those with free nights + Powerwall + solar. I assume your battery pack is at 100% fairly often? Any concerns with that? I've got a 15.2kW system + 4 PW. I am not on free nights plan currently. It's working out ok for me right now. Powerwalls are set to 50% reserve (usually)...

Impatient. :) Better to get the forms and claims right, then be audited.

You are a power user. The design criteria is probably around “install and forget”. So no, probably no reason other than a design decision, and probably had zero to do with Elon. I would personally really like to be able to set max charge limit myself but I can’t do it.

Very very very doubtful you will find anything off the shelf as this is probably an extremely small market. You probably will just have to find someone to make one for you.

Yeah, and let me say, tinting the windshield of the model X is EXPENSIVE, so I had to think LONG and hard about it. Truly, if the concern is about visibility and darkening, at least with the XPEL XR Plus 70 (at 70 visible light transmission), it really does not visibly darken anything... so the...

FWIW - I was one of those "why would you tint your windshield" person... in my mind, it was "you are going to reduce visibility" and "it's illegal". But when I got the model x, I ended up deciding to tint because it was pretty damn hot with that massive windshield over head. I went up with...

For those with smelling AC, do you park the car in a garage or leave it out? I've wondered about this. I've never had any AC smell issues, either with the current Model X or the previous Model Y. We had the Model Y for over 2 years and we are over a year with the Model X.

I wonder if the new model 3 rear screen might just happen to be the same as the larger X rear screens?

Question for those with PW + free nights plan. Curious if you've ever run out of PW during the day on hot cloudy summer days? I have 4 PW, reserve capacity set to 40% (paranoid of outages, seems to happen fairly frequently where I am at), both wife and I work from home... thinking about a...

Thanks all for the answers. In Texas, we rarely are used to single flat rate throughout the day, so I didn't consider effects of peak/off-peak and time control impact. I was really trying to understand the system behavior, thinking it'd be better to avoid charge cycles of the powerwall. I was...

Sorry if my search-fu is lacking.. I tried for a bit but can't get figure out the answers. New Powerwall owner, have a 15.2kW non Tesla solar. I am curious about the behavior of the PW when charging my Tesla: Scenario 1) Say it's night time and the PW is above Backup Reserve limit, I plug in...

Did you call the police? Why are you dealing with it? Also - set pin to drive.... always.

You might want to check this setting.