Adjusting Sense Install w/ Existing Solar + New Tesla Solar w/ PowerWalls

[kevin1]

I can’t give much more feedback except to say that you won’t get a full picture of energy flows with 3 sources (from grid, battery, solar) and 3 “loads” (house, battery, to grid), with just two pairs of CTs - you need 3 for a full picture. Long discussion of tradeoffs in this posting:

Sense install with Solar and POWERWALL2

Thanks a lot man, that will be very helpful. I also have 2 PW, and your way would totally work for me. However, what I was wanting to do with Sense was account for home usage minus the PW and for solar generation only. But again, your way works too. What’s seriously weird for me is that the “usage” count is accounting for usage plus solar generation. It would make more sense if it was accounting for home usage plus/minus the powerwalls depending on if they were charging or generating. Does th…

My 2c is that since your Neurio (formerly a Sense competitor, but gave up on detection) will be on to main and solar feed, you’ll want the Sense on to main and Backup feeds.