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Tesla powerwall2 AC coupled to solark 15 k

Sscott668

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I currently have 2 Tesla power wall 2’s connected to a Tesla gateway2 that is setup for net metering. 14 kw pv feeding the power walls. I want to install a Solark 15 k to the same home and after much research I can’t find much info on this setup. Here is what I have come up with. Install the solark grid tied. It will have 16k of pv and also be setup to net meter. Disconnect the Tesla’s from the grid to be an off grid system and feed the load side of the Tesla into the gen port of the solark and let the solark be the net meter inverter. Solark support seems to think this will work but to their knowledge no one has ever AC coupled a gateway 2 and power walls to the solark. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
 
The problem is that in Grid Down, either the Gateway 2 or the Sol-Ark needs to be able to control both the Battery and the PV.

If you connect the Grid side of the Gateway 2 to the Gen or Load connection of the Sol-Ark, it all works well when the grid is up. When the Grid is Down, Sol-Ark will supply whatever PV it has to the Gen or Load connection. The Sol-Ark will supply whatever the Gateway 2 asks for. The problem comes in when the Gateway 2 asks for too much. Somehow the Gateway 2 has to be able to know what the Sol-Ark can supply (and the Gateway then supplements with the Battery). What the Sol-Ark can supply is not a fixed number. It is dependent upon PV Production, which can change by the second.

If you connect the Gen or Load connection to the PV input of the Gateway 2, it might work. The Gateway 2 should have circuits to figure out how much it can draw from the PV. Is that compatible with the Sol-Ark figuring out how much to deliver? Then the question is: Does the Gateway 2 have the ability to limit the draw to what it needs? The Sol-ark can limit PV production to "Load". I do not think it has the ability to respond to Frequency Shift to moderate PV production (typical way an inverter controls AC PV).
 
Thank you for taking the time to reply. You seem very knowledgeable. I have talked to and send diagrams to Solark and this is my understanding as to what will/should happen on the solark end of things. Again, I am not a solar tech. Just a home owner with just enough electrical experience to be dangerous. The solark will be receiving ac power from the powerwalls via the gen port. The tesla is already off grid so nothing changes when power goes off. The gen ports settings are changed in the settings to ac couple. The solark will not push power back through the gen port, Only receive it. When the power goes off, the solark will/should change the frequency to 62hz which will/should shut the tesla down. The solark will use it's batteries (not the tesla batteries) to a certain point then when batteries need recharging. The solark will change the frequency back to 60hz. This will allow the tesla to restart generating power and push it to the load. Which is the solark gen port. This power from the tesla will help to recharge the batteries that are attached to the Solark until the batteries reach a certain charge. Then ehe solark will change the frequency again to shut the tesla down again. and so on and so on. during the day when boths systems are generating solar. The tesla pushes all of its max generation power to the Solark. the solark will manage the power and send any extra to the grid. I hope all of this makes sense. Solark has been able to do this with many older existing systems but the have not had any experience with ac coupling with a tesla system. Has any body out there tried this?
 
That makes sense on getting power from the Tesla battery. The question is: how does the Tesla battery know when to recharge? If the Sol-ark sees the battery as AC connected PV on the Gen input, then the Sol-ark will never push power to the Tesla to recharge it.
 
Thank you for taking the time to reply. You seem very knowledgeable. I have talked to and send diagrams to Solark and this is my understanding as to what will/should happen on the solark end of things. Again, I am not a solar tech. Just a home owner with just enough electrical experience to be dangerous. The solark will be receiving ac power from the powerwalls via the gen port. The tesla is already off grid so nothing changes when power goes off. The gen ports settings are changed in the settings to ac couple. The solark will not push power back through the gen port, Only receive it. When the power goes off, the solark will/should change the frequency to 62hz which will/should shut the tesla down. The solark will use it's batteries (not the tesla batteries) to a certain point then when batteries need recharging. The solark will change the frequency back to 60hz. This will allow the tesla to restart generating power and push it to the load. Which is the solark gen port. This power from the tesla will help to recharge the batteries that are attached to the Solark until the batteries reach a certain charge. Then ehe solark will change the frequency again to shut the tesla down again. and so on and so on. during the day when boths systems are generating solar. The tesla pushes all of its max generation power to the Solark. the solark will manage the power and send any extra to the grid. I hope all of this makes sense. Solark has been able to do this with many older existing systems but the have not had any experience with ac coupling with a tesla system. Has any body out there tried this?
I am trying to figure this exact thing out currently, my enphase 7.4kw system is ac coupled with a single powerwall 2, just got the system up and running and currently what the ac coupled wants to do is push the tesla storage to charge my ruixu 30kw batteries. I added 19.24kw on the solark in addition to the ac coupled system.
 
Does the SolArk charge the Tesla PowerWall when it's not full?
no, and it is not liking being ac coupled the tesla battery thinks the grid is down and as such disables the solar panels connected to it.... its been frustrating at best. either going to hook it up to the main pannel and run two separate systems or sell the tesla battery and just put my enphase system directly into the solark ac coupled and get another ruixu battery rack to connect to the solark
 
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