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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:

In the summer there are more hours of sun so you would probably be okay. If it were a cloudy summer day then yes, you would probably have to conserve. What I like about having the power wall is that it is quiet, comes on instantly in an outage and requires no testing every month to make sure it works, etc. We have had ours come on several times now and it's seamless. If you have someone older who needs that security for health reasons, it becomes more than a price decision.

No - our AC is NOT one of the circuits included on the battery backup system, so my understanding is that it will not be powered during a power outage. We haven't been through a summer power outage yet, so it's possible that this will work differently that expected, but we had many, many conversations with electricians and the system engineers and they said that our battery setup wasn't large enough to handle the surge that comes when the AC starts, so they didn't include the AC on the backup system.[/quote]

This is news to me. We have a Tesla power wall and all of our circuits, including AC, are on the battery backup system. Our AC draw is about 3 kw/hr. If it were cloudy, we may have to run it judiciously, but if we were having sunny or even partly sunny days, no problem at all. [/quote]

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