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I have my power wall configured to go off grid during the time of expensive power, 4pm-9Pm in this area. If, during this time, I want to manually go back on grid how do I do it? Thanks dds

Thanks Zach another great video, nice pacing and the spreadsheet is great. Would like to hear more about the cell type, by pass diodes, and wind load if you feel those are important factors. Also glad you installed US made panels on your house .

I was surprised Trina Vertex wasn't on the list. At 23% efficiency and overall good reliability and specs, it seemed like a good candidate for inclusion.

Hi Zach, would love your thoughts on the Hyundai HiS-S405YH(BK). This is a panel. I installer recommended here in Southern Cal and there isn’t a lot of information out there on RUclips about it. I never see it show up in any reviews. Thanks for all your great content.

Everyone and their mothers are trying to get rid of their panels that are made in Southeast Asia due to the tariffs the Customs and Border Patrol will be enforcing come around December 3, 2024. Tariffs up to 250% !!! To top it off, the Federal Tax Credit of 30% may get repealed. So remember kids, be careful which panels you buy and when you buy to install them. In the last couple days, I've seen 540w bifacial commercial panels go as little as 6 cents per watt. The residential panels are going for about 15-20 cents per watt. All prices are wholesale for panels only.

Any recommendations on solar installers in southern California? Orange county area

My local installer just confirmed my order and pricing to have two PW3s installed to my existing Enphase PV system,. After incentives, I'm getting two PW3s installed for less than $16K, $33,500 before, and V2H charging will be icing on the cake. The only issue for me has been availability. I placed my order back in Sept and anticipating a Jan install.

QCells truly is the best bang for your buck. If I didn't care about cost I would choose REC/Panasonic.

Check out the Ultimate Guide linked in the description for everything you need! Leave any panel recommendations to add to the comments below 👇

Maybe you can help with a settings problem I have since installing a PowerWall 3 a couple of weeks ago? I do not have export permission yet, but I do have a very good off-peak tariff every night. I also have a modest PV installation. I have set up 'Time-Based Control' so the battery charges up to 100% during the off-peak period, which is great if there is not much sunshine so the battery discharges through the day. Trouble is if the sun comes up strong, the battery starts charging again and quickly reaches 100%. Then any surplus PV generation after house consumption just goes to waste! This will obviously get better when I get export permission, but there could still be cases where the export tariff is less than the off-peak rate and potential savings would go to waste. Seems to me that, rather than a hard choice between 'Self-Powered' and 'Time-Based Control', there should be an upper threshold setting dividing the space above the 'Backup' region into a 'Grid Storage' region and a 'PV Buffer' region.

Need a updated video tesla has updated everything

How do i add my batteries to my app? When i trued ut said it was alfeady registered

how many panels did this system have?

Is your wall connector wired into your gateway or your main breaker ?

I wish there was a more obvious definition of how the system will function during super off peak, off peak, shoulder, and peak. I want my system to charge up during my free nights and avoid using the grid all together from 9am-9pm.

I have IQ8+s. Two questions if I add Powerwall 3 with a Tesla Gateway: 1. If the batteries are full, will the solar still generate power (and be fed back to the grid)? 2. If the grid goes down, will the solar continue to produce? What about if the batteries are run down to zero (for example in a prolonged outage)?

I’m gathering quotes for solar + battery for my house (you’re not local to me, sorry!). A couple of them are suggesting panels with Enphase micro inverters along with a Tesla Powerwall. Aren’t the Enphase micro inverters redundant since the Powerwall has a built in inverter? Can’t they just go straight from the panels to the battery without the need for micro inverters? Seems like a big unnecessary cost unless I’m missing something.

Thanks Zac for some great information for Enphase system owners looking to replace Powerwall 2s at some stage n the future.

I don’t have the “vehicle charging when off grid” setting. I have charging on solar, but not the other one. I do have Netzero setting my reserve to current state of charge when the vehicle is charging, so I think I’m covered??

Wow this was most useful. Thank you!

Much better and less expensive solutions out there. Such as EG4 Wallmounts. Triple the capacity at the same price. Absolutely ridiculous pricing where you're just buying the name. I have 18K inverter and 2 indoor wallmounts. Couldn't be happier.

Two quesitons... 1: I have an agricultural building that faces south and has a subpanel fed from the house via a 200A 250mcm 4 wire underground connection. If I put solar on the ag building would powerwalls also be installed in that building? How about the gateway - same building or back in the residence? Are additional wires required or does the solar and powerwall connect directly to the sub-panel in the ag building and back feed via the existing feed? Second question: the residence has a 400A service with multiple 200a sub-panels feeding a different garage and two sub-panels in the house. Thus a backup solution would need to have multiple 200A gateways which is impractical. What is the potential for a future 400A gateway or 400A backup switch? The most practical solution for me would be solar on the ag building, powerwalls in the ag building and 400A gateway at the service entrance in the residence. Hopefully this could become possible. Thanks , great video! - Thomas

This is Cathy's husband Larry - we are both amateur radio operators - we just installed a Tesla PowerWall 3 and solar panels to our condo. I am seeing significant radio frequency emissions at set frequency intervals of 250kHz across the high frequency spectrum into VHF spectrum - for example, I have an antenna for the 20 meter amateur band and there are signals at 14.00MHz, 14.250MHz, 14.500MHz, and so on. These disappear when the sun goes down and the panels are not producing power. Also, last evening, just 4 days after the install, our HOA complex power went out. Our power also went out even with the PowerWall set up I thought for backup power. When I tried to disconnect from the grid, the app stated that we had too many appliances connected (we did not) which exceeded the capacity of the PowerWall. Today, with power restored, I was able to disconnect from the grid without the over-capacity message warning. Any ideas?

I wish Tesla would push this feature to their entire fleet. I don’t think they will until the competition is on their heels. In other words, not anytime soon 😞

For my EV charger I decided to go with a Tesla Universal Wall Connector just in case in the future when it works with Powerwall 3s for bidirectional charging.

Hello Zach, Thank you for sharing this valuable information. We eagerly await bi- directional/ power share capabilities from all Telsa vehicles and EV manufacturers.

Wish it is only software to enable other teslas. Our X Plaid has a 100kWh pack and would help if we had a multi-day outage. We already have a Powerwall 3 but it’s only 13.5kWh. We also have the dual Anker Solix F3800 set up with a smart panel and expansion batteries adding an extra 30.8kWh.

Do you need batteries to be able to see how much energy your house used? My app isnt showit all the breakdowns your saying.

Am trying to get 10 panels + PW3 installed in my townhouse with SDGE grid distrib. I've been told that because my meter is 4 units away in a utility closet, I need a Tesla Gateway 3 for $5,000 installed. No one else from 4 quotes has mentioned this. I was also told my breaker panel needs to upgraded but only to 125 amp instead of 200 amp. My current master breaker is 70 amp (in utility cabinet), so I would have to put a 70 amp master in either new panel. Why would I be limited to 125 amp panel? Thanks

You didn't cover "Off-Grid" which to me, is the most desired feature where you are completely energy independent. This is my favorite feature of the app and my system and as long as I have enough sun, my default setting.

Great content and presentation. Your channel will blow up keep up the great work

I am lucky enough to own a Genesis GV60 which has bi-directional charging ability. Prior to installing our Franklin battery, we had an outage so I plugged in a powerboard to the car, and ran the fridge and some other appliances and it worked without and issues. The franklin battery allows for charging from a generator so i don't see why it could not be plugged into the car (I don't have this feature installed). Separately, there are chargers which allow for bi-directional power flow already, so there is no reason houses cannot make use of this - I watched a video of an Australian wine refinery which has already done this. So the tech exists, and people have actually set it up already. The main issue is red tap for now, but it seems people are already breaking ground with this tech. the problem with Bi-directional charging is actually charging your car in the first place to use at night. My battery is 13.6kw, which is deep cycled each night - that's 95.2kw of power per week. I only get to really charge my car on the weekend, so i need the power stored in the car to actually run the car during the week. Couple with this, the battery is set and forget. It just works without me having to do anything. So bi-directional charging is not really needed, and i would not spend $5,000 setting it all up to save a few cents per day when my battery already does the heavy lifting. That said, I certainly see this as being pretty mainstream into the future - every charger will eventually be able to do it, and new houses will simply have this as a feature available within the home power box; but i don't think it will be until electric cars have a much larger share of the market, bidirectional chargers are much cheaper, and people are looking to use the car battery to save on getting a house battery (albeit a little more inconvenient).

Do you all think Tesla will actually release Powershare in 2025 for their other vehicles?

Left the comforts and security of living in a very modern city to live a more quiet rural life. Part of that no city water, so private well, ergo electric water pump, ergo got my Tesla Powerwall3 just for grid outages. So that with solar put my estimated paybeack on investment at 18yrs... but so worth it.

I suggest buying Solar and Batteries now because next year Trump will impose a 100% import tariff.

Can the powerwall 3 allow the enphase iq8 to form a microgrid when grid is down like the enphase batteries do? I have an existing microinverter system but I am adding 10 more panels and want batteries. My plan was/is 5p batteries but I really do not have the wall space on that side of the house for 3 of them.

The changes in net metering rules were always inevitable to balance the interests of all parties. It takes investment and expenses to manage the flow of electricity in both directions.

Really good info, thanks so much for the clear understanding.

Here in UK I have 2 rate purchase price 25pence per kWh 0530-2330 and just 7pence from 2330-0530. Any excess I export I can get 15pence per kWh. In the summer months I rarely have any bill to pay.

Yes, California does not have enough batteries to store all the solar energy generated.

Whole house batteries are too expensive - $20k is almost as much as my solar system costs by itself! We're still 1:1 Net Metering here in the Seattle area.

Thanks for discussing an issue that will continue until homeowners get a Solar Bill of Rights that allow us homeowners to generate are own electricity without penalties

Excellent points! Newcomers to solar should definitely check out your videos.

We keep our solar and grid landline power seperate, solar powers our office building (consisting of mine and my wifes "offices") 24/7 and can run both fridge and freezers in case of grid down on a line hooked into the house. Nothing solar is connected to grid. We use solar powered lighting with motion detection outside, and am concidering using the same units for inside as well, to further cut on grid electricity use (also hands free lighting) 😚

Funny but we've had net metering from the very beginning and it is still the same, whatever you produce during the day you will not be billed for, anything in excess that you produce will be exported and you get paid for by the utility company at one third the rate if you end up using more energy than you produce , it's the difference that you'd be charged for at normal power rates. So it's a win win for everyone, the batteries take 3 hours to charge , the rest is exported so it's not that bad an option the ROI is anything between 5 and 10 years at that rate. Selling electricity to the utility company was never the idea of a residential setup, it was just to be energy independent so whatever else comes your way should be an added bonus. And as humans the duck curve doesn't mean anything because that curve is just residential, the human population goes to work everyday and that is where they use a lot more electricity than they produce, so the duck curve is valid only when it comes to residential areas but as a whole the utility company always has a deficit of power.

Great job with the subject 👏

Top tier information here. Thanks for putting this together, Zach.

Good tips

Solid advice! As someone who lives in a state that still has one to one net metering, I might want to expedite my solar install.