There are, and always will be, observations to be made about that company and its founders. <div><br></div><div>The reality of the Powerwall (along with the accompanying Gateway) is that it's without a doubt a cutting edge product and has NO peer at present in terms of what it provides to the homeowner. </div><div><br></div><div>Not only am I a Tesla certified installer, I also installed one on my legacy NEM system at home two years ago and it has worked flawlessly. (And that doesn't even include the coolness factor of the app.)</div><div><br></div><div>And lest anyone among this esteemed Wrenches group believe that I'm some shill for Tesla, I've been in the solar field for 41 years and do not tend to hyperbole or BS.</div><div><br></div><div>marco<br><br>On Thursday, July 25, 2019, Mark Frye <<a href="mailto:markf@berkeleysolar.com">markf@berkeleysolar.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Uh, Looking at what is happening with Tesla's share price, I am
not sure I would want to be "investing" in the products of the
neglected solar division. With Elon alone at the wheel , the
Powerwall et. al. might go the way of the Dodo before too long.</p>
<p>I have been working lately with folks who have moved on from the
vestiges of SolarCity. They don't seem to be very impressed with
what is happening there, at least not enough to stick around
while the division molders under the jaundice eye of the
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the Powerwall and Enphase systems would need to be independently
programmed for zero export? I should add a caveat - all of our
IQ7 systems have been the SunPower branded Equinox type, not
Enphase. The main difference being that Enphase would use their
envoy box and SunPower uses the PV Supervisor 6.
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<div>Are any of those systems zero export by any chance? </div>
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this combo, so far no problem. Tesla's AC coupling
mechanism in general seems to be very robust - we've
paired them with many inverter types and brands, and
they always seem to couple up during our grid-off tests.
Since the vast majority of our systems are grid tied,
the real test will be how they will work over the long
haul if we have major grid outages - who knows if and
when that might happen. I've been in PG&E territory
in the Bay Area for about 15 years and can only recall
one or two short (less than one hour) power outages.
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<div>I\u2019m thinking about combining the Enphase IQ 7
micros with a Tesla Powerwall or two.</div>
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