Tesla Powerwall 3 SAVES THE DAY During Our First Outage!

Two PowerWalls and only a few hours backup?

I’m glad I got the Power Wall when I got the Solar from Tesla. The Power Wall had saved us from multiple power outages here in Sacramento. My power wall is always charge at 100% before dusk.

Would be interesting to see how the powerwalls behave with a multi-day outage with getting depleted overnight and recharging on next solar cycle. Should be seamless, except for the few hours of no power, but you never know.

Those portable AC units use as much almost as a 2ton unit, reasoning is because the 2ton will cool ur house faster and more efficient. While the portable will run nonstop at 700watts. 4kw for 20mins is about 1.3kwh, so 2x as much, but if u set ur ac to 75 for entire house, it will run 15mins or so every 90mns. At least this is how it is in my home, i have a decent insulated newer home. Measure ur ac current and run some tests. So u know for next time.

Can you please talk about why your battery wasn’t 100% charged, I’m kind of confused as I thought it would be 100% charged if you have two Tesla power wall

Upgrade your A/C to an inverter heat pump.

Powerwall change frequency when they go offgrid, maybe you ac is suseptible to that change and turn off! Y get the same problem with one of my ac but the other one doesn't care for the change

Another great video! Did u encounter any problems with Tesla in buying/installing the power walls since I already had a solar array? Thinking about adding battery storage to our system given the extreme weather causing increasingly frequent power outages in SoCal

I live in Santa Clarita also and last Friday we had a power outage that lasted 5-hours. I have solar and two Tesla powerwalls and I to didn't run my AC to prevent draining the battery at 30% charged, but what I did it's run the fan only function on my AC unit to at least keep the air inside the house circulating for which it didn't really take a lot of power from the two powerwalls. I also do the 3-9 pm peak hours used of my powerwall to power our Bedrooms home. I would suggest to put your powerwalls reserved to 40% in the Future.

Yup. And you and I are in earthquake country too, so we may have some several day or longer outages. I hope to help my neighborhood in such an instance. The sun comes up most days, so there is always the chance to gain more power.

I'm using a Solis hybrid inverter and within the system, I can set the Self-Use (Time of Use) discharge current to certain amps. So like if I have a 10kWh battery, I will divide it by the number of critical(peak rates) hours. That way, I can prolong the discharge and have enough juice for an outage at any given time. Rather than a full-hour discharge and quickly deplete the storage.

This works since the Inverter will switch to backup mode and power the demand without following the custom current during an outage. It'd be wonderful if Tesla has this.

What did it cost you for the power wall 3 ? Thank you

Have had the same experience with the PW3. Transition from grid to PW back to grid during a blackout phase is seamless. Need to keep an eye on the outside to even know whether grid power is down. The only slight difference in operation we've noticed is that the microwave needs a bit more time to cook things when we are on the PW3. We avoid the microwave anyway when we know we are in a blackout.

mine saved me 3X this past 2yrs.

Now, do you want 2 more?

I use my PW2 all the time living in the islands this is so normal to us solar just makes sense.

Mine are installed outside as well. You cant put a price on peace of mind...

We placed an order (signed contract) for two PW3s on Sept 26th and due demand am being told my installation might slip into 2025. No biggie as our grid here in southern IL has been very stable. We are being forced to take our RMD’s and felt this is a good way to spend that $$$. We have solar and adding ESS will keep they going indefinitely.

Do you turn off your A/C every day between 4-9pm?

How much are power wall cost

During Power outage , With Tesla PW3, its Owner's pride ,neighbours envy

Hi there, what is the size of your system? Quantity of panels X watts per panel? I’m adding a 2nd system (7,140 watts) with the intention of generating more than we typically need per hour during the day in order to fill the batteries up for the evening. Original system is 4,000 watts.

Great video! How many PV panels do you need for (2) Powerwall 3’s? I have (17) PV panels, and hope to add a Powerwall in the future.

I had the complete opposite experience. Placed my order many many months ago. Tesla was selling PW2s still (in Canada) so I told my installer, Im gonna wait for the PW3.... so yeah, been waiting a long time. 1 week before the installation date, not only did the power go out, it was one of the weirdest power outages effecting only a quarter of the homes in my rural subdivision. This was the first outage in a long time, and of course, it happens a week before I no longer have to deal with outages. Given my luck, there probably wont be an outage for 10yrs now.

Get a back up generator to charge your power wall