My batteries were at 0% after 2 days of bad weather. We jumped the system and had the green lighta flashing and then turn to solid green, but then my system wouldn't take over to charge my powerwall. Restarts/resets dont seem to do anything to help this. Installer wants $900 to take my batteries in for manual charging. I cannot afford this and have expressed this to them. Is there anything else you can suggest I try? My family has been without power for a week now and its over 100° inside our home
You want to switch off absolutely every load (lights, etc) as they say in the video. But you need the solar panels to see the power coming out of the powerwall for several minutes before they start producing power. To debug all this I would first turn on a single low wattage (e.g. LED) light bulb to make sure the powerwall is putting out power. Then ask youself - did I open a breaker that keeps this power from reaching the solar? Maybe you have to turn on a breaker somewhere to get this to the solar panel inverter? Maybe do a test at/near the solar power inverter. Maybe measure the voltage there (be careful - deadly voltages). What I'm saying is step one is to figure out if the problem is at the solar panel inverter or at the powerwall or if the two are not connected together. Maybe you need to reset the solar system in addition?
Does this apply to PW3 connected to Enphase IQ8A Micro-Inverters?
My batteries were at 0% after 2 days of bad weather. We jumped the system and had the green lighta flashing and then turn to solid green, but then my system wouldn't take over to charge my powerwall. Restarts/resets dont seem to do anything to help this. Installer wants $900 to take my batteries in for manual charging. I cannot afford this and have expressed this to them. Is there anything else you can suggest I try? My family has been without power for a week now and its over 100° inside our home
You want to switch off absolutely every load (lights, etc) as they say in the video. But you need the solar panels to see the power coming out of the powerwall for several minutes before they start producing power. To debug all this I would first turn on a single low wattage (e.g. LED) light bulb to make sure the powerwall is putting out power. Then ask youself - did I open a breaker that keeps this power from reaching the solar? Maybe you have to turn on a breaker somewhere to get this to the solar panel inverter? Maybe do a test at/near the solar power inverter. Maybe measure the voltage there (be careful - deadly voltages).
What I'm saying is step one is to figure out if the problem is at the solar panel inverter or at the powerwall or if the two are not connected together. Maybe you need to reset the solar system in addition?