Turning Off Dream Home Power!

We really love using SPAN and glad we have it. No way we would be as comfortable when the grid is off without SPAN. Our Tesla Power Walls and Solar is great.

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[span_io]

You did it, Dan! We love how much you learned about your home from energy insights in your SPAN Home app throughout this experiment, and that your SPAN Panels made it possible to go off-grid for a full 48 hours. Resilience looks good on your Dream Home!

[TobiasWeberRSA]

Watching this from South Africa is funny. We live with 10+ hours a day where we have no power. Switching to solar is a game changer here and almost a requirement to live a normal life.

[conceptt]

This is honestly such a good challenge. You really learn to appreciate having power and become more conscious on how much electricity you use every day. I would love to see you guys try this challenge again in maybe a year and see how you change your home to become more and more efficient.

[joshuafox]

Hey Dan, I didn’t read through the comments, so someone else may have said this, but it seems that the Span panel is in charge and not the power wall. This would account for some of the discrepancies that you saw. The power walls are being fed from the Span panel, which is why the span panel was seeing the “whole” picture more clearly than the power wall was seeing. Hope this helps! Thanks for the video! Can’t wait to go solar myself.

[morph-]

I wish the Tela powerwalls and chargers would communicate with the Cars to send power from their battery packs back into the house just to bridge the gap between the power walls running out and the solar kicking in fully. It would also mean that the solar could continue at 100% output after the power walls were full and start charging the batteries in the cars. This is something we know Tesla could make, with the app connectivity they already have it would be easy to make them all communicate.

[timsonxx]

It’s crazy to see how much your house uses even without AC. Even more extreme with AC. Thats no comparison to european houses

[happyhome]

This is more entertainment than instruction. Timing is important and insolation is much better this time of year. And you appear to be in the southwest so not much weather. Practically, this CAN be done any time of year if one manages demand. And yes, the solar/powerwall/SPAN combination is powerful.

[njhbgy]

@17:47 "...as soon as it hits 98% it turns off the solar....it says we have zero kW coming from solar"

This is happening because you have your "Permission to Export" on "No"(go to Settings)

If you have it on "Yes" then you will be able to sell your excess electricity back to the power company. Does your State have a regulation to make the electric company fairly reimburse you for the excess power you produce & send back to the grid? If so, then turn you "Permission to Export" setting to "Yes"

(Someone didn't read their Owner's Manual) 🙄

[vidpetrovic]

American houses use so much power. I have no idea how do you guys even use this much power, like what in the actual hell are you doing to possibly use this much power ? Most American still use the outdated and dangerous GASSSS for cooking and still use this much power. It just blows my mind.

[djenson]

Dan - Can you please explain how in 2023 with LED bulbs everywhere, you are using 1KW for your lighting (15:34) during the *day*

[DryVan]

It's good to have a backup like you have installed even though you have such a good grid energy system! Here in South Africa our grid is unstable, we have rolling blackouts every 4 hours or so, so having some sort of backup is a need unless you like sitting in dark for 4+ hours a day. You should do some more videos on the solar side.

[shryx]

Cool challenge. Since there were times in the day where the power banks weren't charging because they were full, couldn't the cars get charged during that time? It would use up some of the stored energy and utilize the available sun. Can't wait to finally see what happens to the statue.

[geosh]

We lived off grid with our Tesla PowerWalls for 11 days after Hurricane Ida! Our solar panels charged our PowerWalls daily.

[blaw]

My wife walked in the room and asked why I listening to Ryan Reynolds and told her I was watching what’s inside family 😂😂 never really knew how similar Dan sounds just like Ryan Reynolds and now I can’t get it out of my head

[urbanjungle]

You need a UPS for your network/computers with a managed shutdown script

[catmantech]

Have you looked at the Tesla solar tiles for the other sections of your roof, as they are far more discreet than the big solar panels?

[dylandavidson]

This is what it feels like in South Africa everyday with constant power outages. Such an amazing video love the content!!

[danupson]

they use more energy in one day than i do for my home in a month

[YammyBoh]

It takes a fair amount of practice to figure out what you actually need on or off. Awesome video! South Africa is going through this but not by choice, haha!

[debbiec]

our electric went out for 2 weeks and we handled it very well. Kept the shades closed, doors, , etcc.
Especially if the entire Grid goes out through the Country.
what else is best for people to have security cameras!!!
We visit your city a month ago, it's so beautiful there and the citizens are so nice. Throughout Utah it's pretty.