I Shouldn't Have Bought Tesla Powerwall!

Your videos are always electrifying!

The point of having battery backup isn’t to run everything at maximum capacity, it’s to keep the essentials running such as fridge and freezers. Not to charge all your electric cars and have the aircon and every light in the house on.

This video made me happy I don't own an unnecessarily big house.

It's funny how at no point in this video you considered the alternative of consuming less energy. I'm saying that because that's what we did in my house (we only have solar panels), we improved the isolation, changed every light bulbs to LEDs, changed appliances that were too power hungry and monitored our consumption. And guess what? It worked without changing our habits too much. Give it a try, it's worth it.

This was a bit crazy to watch 😂 your life is not that of an average person. I can't even imagine using that much energy.

15 minutes condensed to one sentence: Don't buy batteries for your solar system if your energy provider offers net metering (and you don't care about powere outages). But thank you for the cool video anyways!

I finally understand why the powergrid in the USA is struggling 😂. This dude uses more power on his own than my whole street (in the EU) does, taking into account that I have 12 solar panels and still power left to deliver back to the grid (and yes we do have electric cars as well, guess our houses are just a tiny bit smaller 😂😅)

Never seen this channel before. It popped up for some reason and after watching this guy for a few minutes, he proves that when you have lots of money, the decisions you make probably don't have much thought put into them.

Thanks for the run down on how you use your setup. Personally all I need to cover is keeping a mini fridge operational during the occasional blackout (to keep temperature sensitive medication from spoiling) and cannot put any solar up where I live so my battery backup solution is considerably cheaper than yours but still grid reliant. I figure for the vast majority of my needs I can get away with around $1500 in battery generator cost which will give me enough to cover all but a multi day blackout which has only occurred twice in 20 years where I live. Lucky you to live where the power company doesn't gouge you on power prices - mine plays the summer multi tier game to squeeze more money out of us in "summer" and they're getting ready to play the smart meter shuffle and bend us over for more money at different times of the day or whenever the whim hits them that they need to compensate for increased demand all year round.

"This is half a tesla surfboard, I wonder if it still floats" Why would it not

The power you use every day is twice as much as I use in a month. That's crazy insane

I just got two Powerwalls and I'm really happy with them. I love not having to buy much electricity from the grid and being able to have full electricity when the grid shuts down.

Even if the output is low, self running generators would keep running continuously. Not stop. And they wouldn't overheat or explode.

Translation. My two powerwalls are not enough for my mansion with 3 EVs and AC everywhere.

If you like to learn Dan, be careful at 9:21 you switched kW and kWh. kW is a unit of power, so your house consumption is in kW (you can see that in your app) kWh is a unit of stored energy, so your Powerwalls should be rated for this. So one of you powerwall is 13.5kWh and is capable of an output of 5kW, that gives us, without loss 2.7 hours of usage out of them. A little physic course for you ;)

You're so extravagant, you need to rethink your energy usage and serve yourself as an example. lol

Battery technology is improving so quickly I feel like a new superior version of Powerwalls will be out within a few years. It would be awesome if they became more compact so you could attach one to a travel trailer.

So you've had 6 months of data and instead of using actual average daily use, you chose to plug in all 4 cars, Al the lights, all the AC.. basically the worst case scenario that would basically never occur. Weird.

13:53 When your Tesla sounds like a Mustang starting up and driving off because of thunder in the distance, perfectly timed 😎

I enjoyed the video. You seem like someone that analyzes and sums up technical issues well. I've looked at various battery storage options a bit myself, not terribly in dept, but enough that I just couldn't see the financial benefit at this time. I'm curious why you didn't come to that conclusion before purchase also.