After years of inverter failures, resets, replacements, and chasing answers… we finally have a breakthrough. My system is now running: ⚡️ 1 Powerwall 3 🔋 2 Powerwall 2s From what I’ve been told — this is the first residential deployment anywhere of this hybrid configuration outside of Tesla’s internal testing. This didn’t happen through a normal service ticket. It required: • Escalation after repeated system failures • Full system documentation performance logs • Coordination with my installer (Rising Sun Solar) • Tesla engineering pushing custom firmware not available to standard field techs • Non-standard wiring configuration to make PW3 PW2 coexist For context — my original system ran well for ~5 months… then entered a cycle of: → inverter failures → replacements → resets → solar not restarting after outages At one point, we were on multiple inverter swaps with no lasting fix. This upgrade is different. Powerwall 3 is now acting as the system backbone, with the Powerwall 2 units integrated behind it — something that (until now) wasn’t supported in residential installs. Early results: ☀️ Solar production is stable 🔋 Batteries are responding correctly ⚡️ Home load is fully supported 🚫 Grid draw = 0 kW Still early — but this is the first time in a long time the system feels right. Huge credit to Rising Sun Solar for sticking through this, and to the Tesla engineers who were willing to go off-script to solve it. If this configuration proves stable, it could open the door for upgrading existing PW2 systems without full replacement. More data to come. @teslaenergy @Tesla @elonmusk @RisingSunSolar1

> Happy its the best update in the past 2 years > Sad its the last update > Coping that d3 will be greenlit

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Falcon 9 launches 29 @Starlink satellites from Florida

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BREAKING: Starship Flight 12 NET May 12, 22:30 UTC / 17:30 CDT An advisory has appeared on the CADENA Operational Information System. - NEW Trajectory - Afternoon Launch Window The window spans 22:30 - 00:43 UTC, which is 17:30 - 19:43 Starbase local time. Instead of flying the corridor between Florida and Cuba, Starship Flight 12 appears to be targeting a more inclined corridor, threading the needle between Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Despite this change in launch trajectory, splashdown remains in the Indian Ocean, with a corridor running through Madagascan, Mauritian, and Australian airspace. 🗺️ CADENA Operational Information System Credit to @NeedPizza42 for spotting

Despite fighting malfunctioning equipment, I captured one of my most surreal videos ever. That’s the moon crossing in front of the sun. You can see mountains on the lunar limb as it transits the chromosphere. Captured using a specially modified telescope from Utah in 2023.

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…

If this holds long-term, it raises a bigger question: Why aren’t upgrade paths like this standard for existing Powerwall 2 customers? There’s a lot of installed base out there.

Early takeaway: Powerwall 3 as the system backbone feels fundamentally different. More stable. Faster response. Cleaner recovery after load changes. Still testing — but promising.

This is important: If you’re dealing with repeated failures — don’t just keep resetting or swapping parts. Track everything. Patterns matter more than individual incidents.

The fix wasn’t just “replace a part.” It was: • New architecture (PW3 PW2 hybrid) • Custom firmware push • Non-standard system configuration Something field techs hadn’t even seen before.

That’s when things started to shift. The case made it beyond standard support and into Tesla engineering. And that’s where this solution came from.

So we changed strategy. Instead of treating this as isolated failures, we documented everything: • Timeline of outages • Power bill impact • System behavior patterns • Exact failure conditions Built a full escalation package.

The hardest part wasn’t just the hardware. It was the gap between: What the system should do vs What field-level support was able to diagnose We were clearly outside “normal issue” territory.

This wasn’t a one-time issue. Over time: • Multiple inverter replacements • Full panel replacement • Numerous service visits • Repeated downtime And the same core problems kept coming back.