Just another thing from an electrician who’s been around for 45 years or so, I never turn off a main breaker with loads on it, every time you exercise a breaker with a load on it there’s gonna be a good sized arc inside that breaker. So to minimize any excessive damage to large breakers, unless it’s absolutely necessary to flip that large breaker with a full load on it, I always turn off the smaller loads first and then cycle the big breaker. ⚠️ And one more safety tip: Breakers are made out of hard plastic and can crack if there is a failure of this breaker while you’re turning it on or off that energy can flash out of the panel straight at you, just go look at arc flash accidents on RU-vid ⚡️💥 So for safety reasons, you always stand to the side when you’re flipping breakers and look away because you want to save your eyes at the minimum, thereby if anything goes boom it’s going to blow out the front of the panel, but not straight into you, stay safe out there and let’s push these manufacturers like the Hyundai iconic to make them all accessible for 110 V or like the lightning pick up truck or other vehicles all EV should have 110 V power available 15 amp circuit.
Good tips, man! I'm *shocked* about some of these tips. See what I did there? 😃 Are there any specific gloves I can wear to protect my hands when turning off breakers? Like Klein Tools or something?
@@VishalRaoOnRU-vid well if you really wanted to protect yourself, you would have to buy some expensive electrical gloves, but if your hand is in the way of the breaker, I’ll good pair of just heavy leather gloves is the best you can have. You’re not touching stuff you’re just trying to protect your skin, actual electrical working gloves are two pair of gloves, an inner rubber pair that you have to keep in a safe bag from puncher and dirt and nonsense with leather over gloves you can look them up just look up like lineman gloves, just to protect yourself, you’re doing thatand you want to feel more safe just some heavy heavy leather gloves if you want something longer than get a welders glove, they’re just not good for much else except Welder working with like heavy brush or something
Using your truck on the regular to power your house would be a very different use case than occasional home backup. Tesla would need to weigh in with warranty considerations.
You are the first person to install, review, and explain the powershare product that I have seen on YT. It sounds like Foundation Series owners can get mixed results depending on where you live, regarding the powershare being installed. What was the difference between your previous tesla charger and the one that was installed? How do you know if you have the right charger already?
Lots of good info in this video Chris. Thanks for sharing. The community knowledge-base definitely increase with the info here. Especially the Q&A at the end. My Tesla solar and PowerWall system gain features that was never conceived when it was commissioned years ago. That’s one of the cool things with Tesla, they add more features. Looking forward to seeing what more the CT to home integration can gain. One thing I would like to add with having the CT acting as a portable PowerWall is instances where power is down and PowerWall wasn’t able to charge from solar due to a storm. You can at least drive the truck to a charging site that still has power. Then bring that power back home to power the house through the night.
This is by far the best feature of the CT, which is basically a rolling powerwall/generator. I hope Tesla enables/adds this feature to the rest of the lineup (as I own a Model Y and Model 3 w/a CT on order 🤔). Everything is running off the main panel (which makes the install easier). Awesome setup 👏🏻👏🏻. RIVIAN are you guys seeing this?, The R1’s need this!!
new tesla owner here… i’ve had my Model Y for about 3 months. still using my dryer outlet to charge so i could definitely put that charger to some good use. :)
I came across on RU-vid that dryer outlets and some 240 outlets can not handle being plugged and unplugged often and can cause a short and melt. You may want to do an upgrade.
3:10 Thanks so much for asking (and answering!) this question. This is going to motivate me to get my Powerwall 3 cluster sooner than later. 6x Powerwall (6*13.5) + 1x Cybertruck is 81kWh + 123 kWh ==> 204 kWh. That's a comfortable 3 days of backup for me with full appliance usage (reverse osmosis water purification, 2 HVACs, septic system, electric dryer, dehumidifiers, and air purifiers).
Been watching a couple of your videos since you Rivian R2 video. The more videos I watched, I realized “Wait a minute, this guys lives in the same community as I in North Irvine!” 😅. So many familiar locations in your videos.
Dude! I don't know how long you've had your studio like this but it's totally legit now. The mic and background and lighting. This is exactly what I would like mine to look like.
So a 19% share of your Cybertruck battery was giving you a days worth of home power. Just to put into perspective that must be around 60 miles of driving, so demand and draw on the battery is much lower than the load for driving. Great to hear that Tesla are looking to add more functionality and that if you have a Powerwall installation is simplified. Hope that this can be rolled out to other Tesla models.
I just got my Model Y the end of May. I did my own 14-50 hubbell install but would love to have an actual wall charger its my 49 birthday Thursday. When I did the wiring run I built it with the hopes I could get a Tesla Wall charger by just swapping it in when the time comes.
Thx Chris your video is really helpful! Just got the email from Qmerit and was able to link up with my local electrician, Accel Electric, here in Las Vegas.
Nice video I am hoping they retroactively enable powershare for the model 3.This would be so much better supplementing a whole home Powerwall back up system instead of it being a standalone partial back up system
I would love to have your old charger! I have a cybertruck using the reg outlet mobile charger 😢i can only use it every other day lol…i have paid over 8k in vet bills since owning the cybertruck or i would of got it.
Great vid with good information. Thank you. I just bought my Tesla a month ago (Model 3). Not a Cybertruck sadly. Would not mind having your wall adapter if you are getting rid of it. Keep up the great videos!
11:47 Notice the direction of the lights. When charging your car the green beam "travels" DOWN into the car. When PowerSharing into your home, the green beam "travels" UP into your home.
You may not of noticed or it may just be the filming frame rate but when the truck is powering your house and the green light on the wall connector shows it charging it is actually going backwards. On mine the green light goes from the top of the charger down to the cable when charging signifying that the power is coming from the charger going to the truck. It looked like your charger was going from cable or the bottom to the top signifying the power coming from the cybertruck going into the home. Just another neat feature along with the purple on the truck and charger.
Great to see the V2H in action it is quite impressive. And having so many kWh available is great. We have Powerwalls and Solar and really like it. The takeover is so fast the TV and computers are not effected. But had the V2G been available I would have been tempted to go that way and use the Power in our X and 3. Hopefully Tesla will bring V2G on all their vehicle by the time we need to replace the Powerwalls.
My installer was able to include microwave and oven but not the AC due to LRA limitation. I’m sure you have a sub panel inside that powers everything outside of main panel that has your AC Oven and Solar.
If you have a Powerwall installed with solar panels, the Tesla app has a setting to which you can direct excess solar production exclusively to your Tesla vehicle. it's called "Charge On Solar".
Hey Chris, like your videos the one on camping with your dogs was fun. If the charger is available I need it , buying my first tesla and everything adds up.
Love the video and super jealous. Curious about the fact your breakers are on the outside of your house. So anyone or the elements can turn the power off any time?
hey ive owned my model 3 for about a year now still using a dryer outlet in my garage that only reaches one space in my driveway. having the wall connector could reach any space would be pretty nice 😂
Looks like there's still a lot of work needed for PowerShare to match the capabilities of a Powerwall installation. As it's implemented now, CT with PowerShare will unlikely take away market share from Powerwall. Maybe that's by design, especially since PowerShare supposedly works with any homes with Powerwalls. It would be interesting to know if Tesla will allow PowerShare to participate in VPP and send stored power back to the grid during extreme demand periods in the future. Perhaps that's possible for homes that already have Powerwalls?
11:45 it actually looks like the green pulse is moving in an opposite direction of normal. I have a gen 3 and I know the green pulse starts at the top and moves down. Here it looks like the pulse starts at the cable side and moves up, indicating power is coming from the cable.
@@EverydayChris I wonder if there's something hardware wise with the Cybertruck that none of the other models can PowerShare. It's a really cool feature. I've been looking at adding solar panels and/or a power wall, but if there's a software update that the Model 3 can PowerShare with the new universal wall connector, that might be interesting. Also, I really like your content and just subscribed! I'm filming a bunch of Tesla stuff as a TV meteorologist that made the switch to EV.
I understand the universal charger and the gateway comes with foundation series also $2500 to purchase equipments, what other equipments do you need for the installation which can be purchased with Tesla credits also how much does it cost to you, I see you haven’t replied to previous comments on the cost but if you can give us a ballpark estimate that would be nice.
Living in Texas the nema 1450 that came with my car gets degraded and charges slower due to the plug over heating. Wall unit I have been told would not have this issue. If you still looking for someone to take it off your hands let me know. Thanks!
What is the maximum load (amps at 120v/240v) you can have on when the cyber truck is powering your house. In other words how many watts is the inverter rated for?
Sure I'll take the wall charger and that old solar Edge inverter that you want to get rid of when you do the next update. Maybe it will motivate me to buy a Tesla. I dont think elon will let me design the Tesla CR yet. I keep sending a few ideas. One i sent today. Need to be able to charge at higher amps and dc direct i am adding at amps i choose and at times i want. From solar or from dc on battery. I was trying to find someone that made a home diy super charger. . Its like youtube is hiding these videos. ?? Maybe need to look on musicly?
When I get a tesla solar roof and power walls, imma make them my main source to power my home and set the legacy power provider to 0, only activated when it’s as a last resort
