This light and computer mount, wobbles too much and more with the gopro mount , created this TPU shim , need new m3x8mm screws but seems more stable. Printed a few if anyone interested let me know for a small fee will mail them in the US.
this is my old fuji pro had it for 20yr, decided to get into a trainer and repurpose the bike since I upgraded. Frame is mine, fit to me, Zwift is awesome , was tempted to get the FRAME , but besides some of the controller features and being able to share the bike. Would that be the only benefit?
the trainer is the kickr core v2 plus zwift cog.
❤️ 🚲 awesome ride and the help is welcomed !!! 🥷 💥
Just a comparison, I could have done it against another plans, and well not everyone has the same setup, and yes I have seen that I can suck up the power of the batteries in about 3 hours, if the house is at full power, so BASE has an advantage of backup. But well if thereis a real outage just have to manage the stuff that really consumes power, AC, water HEATER and no EV charging. Eventually will ad an expansion PW3.
Base Power vs. Solar + Powerwalls + Free Nights — My Actual Numbers
My setup:
17 kW solar
2× Tesla Powerwall 3 (27 kWh total)
Direct Energy Twelve Hour Power / Free Nights
Oncor territory in North Texas
Multiple EVs
For my latest billing period (July 8–Aug 5):
Grid usage: 2,277 kWh
Average: 79 kWh/day
Direct Energy energy charge: $539.49
Free Nights energy credit: -$536.75
Free Nights TDU credit: -$138.62
Oncor delivery charges: $129.03
Final bill: $10.79
Effective grid electricity price: ~0.5¢/kWh
The Powerwalls are also taking advantage of the free-night period. During roughly the same period, Tesla’s data shows the batteries were primarily charging from the grid at night and then supplying the house during the paid daytime period. Solar handles a large portion of daytime consumption, with excess solar exported.
I then compared this with Base Power. Using roughly 14.3¢/kWh, my 2,277 kWh of grid consumption would be about $326, plus the Base battery membership fee. After estimating Base’s solar export credit, I’d be somewhere around $325–$330/month, although the exact number would change because Base controls battery dispatch differently.
So roughly:
Current system: ~$11/month
Estimated Base: ~$330/month
Base has a huge advantage in backup capacity — potentially ~80 kWh versus my 27 kWh — and it’s an interesting option for someone starting from scratch who wants a lot of backup capacity without buying expensive batteries.
But for someone who already owns solar + Powerwalls and has a good Free Nights plan, I don’t see the economics working. In my particular case I’d potentially be paying $300+ more every month to switch to Base.
The Base battery capacity is tempting, but it’s hard to argue with a $10.79 electric bill after using 2,277 kWh from the grid in a Texas summer.
I just started a month ago with 12 hour power 24 and today they just offer me 12 hour power 48z Even with a lower base charge $5 but an increase on the rate of 1c but I took it 4 yrs of free nights
For you guys on a free night plan, during peak time, do you guys get small spikes of consumption, or you total zero it? I know there is some small draws to sync up frequencies but well I assume then I am not going to get a absolute zero on my bill during peak hours.
Right now I am using time based on the PW3 and let it manager, I was using also netzero and more aggressive programming but the same , so I guess it is normal, or if you totally zero the peak hour consumption with TESLA PW3, how you do it ?
Been on Free nights for a few days and it is definitely the way to do it, with solar and storage.
There are still several providers offering free nights, I definitely recommend it,
also if you storage is not huge but enough to cover the dark ours of the free hours definitely go with it.
I had one of my micro inverters report issues, and tried contacting my maintainer and well the phone number is disconnected, so not a 100% but feels they are out business.
talking to enphase directly but definitely it sucks since I might have to get a new installer for service and maintenance. which means some sort of service plan .
For you guys on a free night plans and with PW how have you used the app, I am currently set with NETZERO app to control my Free time and non Free time, butmy current setting is self-powered and 5% of reserve during the peak time. Then during non peak time, grid charge to 100%.
But does anyone use the Off Grid option when production is going to sustained during the day, like sunny days ?
Also on another note, this week I had two small power outages, and funny thing since I was not familiar firs of all my solar was ZERO fora while that freak me out, but well if your PW are at 100% well it tells the solar system to stop to avoid over loading since the extra electricity that the PW can’t use or your home can’t go anywhere. The other thing that happen all my APC UPS ( I still have them because well why not used them) went crazy when the GRID was off, also did not know that when the PW are at100% they will change the frequency to 65hz to tell the solar system to shutdown but electronics at the home go bananas, well you can ask Tesla to lower the frequency they did it immediately and now the APC do not. complain :)
I know this has been asked 100s of times , and I know the advantages of free nights (Which that is what I am moving too), but for the folks with TESLA ELECTRIC with either plan FIXED or Dynamic, are they seeing the the payouts from the VPP and does it make sense ? I have never been on the Tesla Electric plans but just making sure I am not missing on anything. My use case, I do have 3 EVs which they are the ones that contribute a lot of my consumption, plus my electric water heater, all of this dwarfs any other appliance on their consumption.
Just added PW to my system. Currently, I am on a 1:1 from Green Mountain, but that is going away. I already enrolled in Free Nights of Direct Energy, but my plan starts next month. Seems to me a Free Nights plan is the way to go even with the base charges. If my system can cover the consumption during the non-Free hours, the days when it is gloomy I assume is just a matter of not going crazy on the consumption but moving my heavy loads during the night, like PW charging, EV charging, and dryer and other ones I would think.
There is no buy back, but it seems on the long run makes more sense than trying to get into a BB plan when they do not pay 1:1 anymore. I know there is also the TESLA plans, but it seems even that they offer credits to the VPP, It is not really that much money we make on it, and also the export buyback sucks too.
If anyone differs or has other opinions, they are welcome.