Solar Charge of Battery Completely Depleted
Edit: since the Powerwall 3 battery is fully depleted, my solar panels will not provide a charge. They must first sense a 120v60hz power signal from the batteries but since they are dead, I’m out of power until my utility provider comes back online. Even took the cover off my Tesla gateway box, stuck two wires in the positive and ground jump start ports and jumped it both with a car jumper and a fully charged 12v car battery. Gateway came on and detected in the all, but powerwall did not. All breakers on. Nothing tripped.
Do not manually turn your system on in the app when it gets down to around 5%. It needs that for the solar la el system to detect.
Morning.
My Powerwall 3 is completely depleted.
It got down to about 5% then shut off last night.
My utility is still out.
In a half dazed morning stupor the minute I woke up this morning, I restarted the Powerwall in the app.
It showed 0% battery but powered my house for about ten minutes before going off.
I didn’t think about turning breakers off.
Question: will my solar panels charge the completely depleted powerwall? I can’t turn it on/restart it via app. Tried manually toggling it off then on outside but no go.
Before it died I saw my panels were generating around 1kwh. House was pulling 3.5kwh for reference.
I flipped off all of the little breakers and left the main big one on.
Is it charging even though it’s dead or does it need to have a little juice to tell the panels it’s available?
I’m worried it will be useless until Monday when the utility estimates power restoration.
Lesson learned on my part if so.