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Old 05-02-2015, 12:54 PM  
dyna mo
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Charge your battery at non peak hours from grid, use battery power at peak hours

At least that's how it should work w/o solar
i don't see how that can happen. a typical home burns through 16KwH/day. that's more than double what the power wall holds. + to recharge the batteries from fully drained would take several hours. don't forget to calculate in a 20% loss of energy due to the inverter converting 12volts to 110v.

i want this to work, and the math will eventually sort itself out but it doesn't make sense at this time due to battery technology being a joke, solar panels lack of efficiency- consequently requiring rows and rows of panels, and the cost.
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