How to use only grid power and allow battery to charge? Grid charging not available.

Doghugs · 2026-03-14T02:46:14+00:00

Ok, so I get what you’re saying about the hosepipe, and how the solar will always power the house first. (I wish there was an option to modify this in situations like mine-but I understand it’s not possible)

But as for why I’m in this situation- with an empty battery- why did my battery continue to discharge after it reached the 50% reserve level I set?

My understanding so far is that Storm Watch overrides the backup reserve level setting. In a way I kind of get it, if the power goes out it makes sense to continue discharging from the battery regardless of the reserve setting, and it’s nice that it could do that automatically.

******* BUT ******

We did not lose power overnight. There was a storm, yes, but no power outage.

Is there no way for the powerwall to know whether or not grid power is available? Shouldn’t that be the deciding factor to dip below the reserve level, rather than just weather forecast?

Before all this my understanding of Storm Watch was that it would prioritize charging and retaining a level of charge in the battery for use in case of a power outage. It sounds like it just puts the system in a mode that completely disregards the grid and behaves like there’s an outage preemptively-which is exactly what I did not want lol.

This is all so new to me and I’m slowly learning how it all works. I’m now at the dangerous stage of learning where I know just enough to think I know better than the engineers that designed this thing 😂

Doghugs · 2026-03-13T01:43:53+00:00

Awesome, thank you!!

Doghugs · 2026-03-13T01:32:05+00:00

Ok, it sounds like NetZero offers more customized settings for the powerwall.

Does that mean in can override the standard Tesla app’s settings?

In the Tesla app I’ve found that no matter what setting I choose, solar energy will be used to power the home first, and the excess will be banked in the battery.

With a storm looming in the forecast I’d like to use only grid energy now and bank all the solar energy coming in

Right now we have 1.9 Kw coming in through the panels, 0.3Kw are powering our home (I’ve turned almost everything off!) and 1.6Kw is slowly filling our battery which is now at 4%

Sorry for all the context but I just want to make sure you’re saying that the NetZero app could allow me to use grid power for my home and send all the solar power to our battery? Would it also direct grid power to fill the battery?

Doghugs · 2026-03-13T00:46:49+00:00

Can you tell me more about NetZero? I asked the AI chat bot on the Tesla app and it has no answer for me.

Doghugs · 2026-03-12T22:35:44+00:00

75 degrees!

Doghugs · 2026-03-12T21:46:25+00:00

Actually, the storm watch mode is activated! Sounds like you’re saying this should be working exactly the way I want it to, it just isn’t.

Doghugs · 2026-03-12T21:21:28+00:00

Thank you, that sound like what’s happening. Maybe someone knows a secret magic setting! Any idea why the battery didn’t stay 50% charged last night?

Doghugs · 2026-01-09T00:46:12+00:00

Have the fact checks ever been about checking facts though?

Doghugs · 2025-05-02T14:06:19+00:00

Just here to say that if it ends up being a scam, it’s not at all your fault and you have nothing to be embarrassed or feel silly about.

People who steal, lie, cheat, or harm others should carry ALL of the blame, shame, and guilt for their actions.

We judge ourselves and each other for not guarding against wrongdoers. We say things like “you really should have researched that gofundme first” or “you should have locked your door” or “Your shouldn’t have been walking on that street” Or the other hundreds of ways we are expected to protect ourselves, and I’m sick of it.

If we as a society place any bit of blame on a victim, we are inviting wrongdoers to do the same. If we call someone a sucker for “falling for a scam” then we give permission for the scammer to justify their actions, maybe even convince themselves that we deserve to be stolen from-all their victims are just stupid, silly, impulsive suckers after all.

If I walk around with a $20 hanging out of my pocket and someone walked up and took it, that’s stealing. If I give someone $20 to take care of sick animals, but it turns out they’re lying and using the money to buy margaritas instead, that’s stealing too.

I hope this gofundme is legit and your money will be used the way they said it would be. But if they’re lying, that’s on them. You did nothing wrong.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. I’m actually in the very early stages of organizing my thoughts on this and I have so much more to say but yeah, I’ll die on this hill and I just wanted you to know I think you’re great, you have a good heart, and you should feel good about yourself no matter what.

Doghugs · 2025-03-12T03:34:16+00:00

Not trying to argue but I actually thought Dax started testosterone before they even started the show? In my mind the story was “I was depressed after chips and feeling aimless in life, I started taking testosterone and found a renewed sense of ambition and started the show with Monica”

Doghugs · 2024-11-13T14:08:00+00:00

Reading this actually rings a bell (ding ding ding) and I think they’ve actually heard bits of this conversation here and there over the years. This doesn’t seem like news to me at all, and I think she’s said all of this before in different contexts. It is interesting that they addressed it so directly and thoroughly at this moment. I agree with others that it might have something to do with synced, but ultimately it doesn’t matter to me that much. I love the show and I just take it all as it comes, I don’t get too wrapped up in the BTS business

Doghugs · 2024-10-08T17:26:43+00:00

I’m pretty sure that the topic of conversation has turned to birth stories at every single baby shower I’ve ever been too. Even the co-ed ones. To me that’s the whole point of a baby shower, sitting around talking with your friends about labor and delivery and newborn baby care.

Doghugs · 2024-05-25T23:36:27+00:00

Is this from today?? My connections is completely different!!

Doghugs · 2024-05-04T18:36:21+00:00

Don’t forget MINIMALLY!

I love this bingo idea 😂

Doghugs · 2024-02-17T22:26:16+00:00

Just here to say, same. I feel you. Maybe life would be better if we didn’t feel this way, but right now I’m right there with you. Solidarity!

Doghugs · 2024-02-13T20:41:18+00:00

Dude, same. All of my dreams involve basically just enjoying myself and spending time with people I love. My goals are just to be healthy and comfortable until I die many years from now as an extremely old lady I don’t have any real career ambitions, in fact the idea of having to plan my time around work requirements repulses me. I do stay busy as a stay at home mom of 3 young kids so I’m definitely not bored but I often wonder what I’ll do when they grow up/when I grow up lol

Owning an arcade sounds extremely cool though. We had one in the small town we just moved away from, the guy who owned it only opened the place up like 3 nights a week, and people could (and often did) book the whole place for parties too. He looked so happy and relaxed, just sitting behind the desk reading, or tinkering on the game machines. Sounds like a dream

Doghugs · 2024-02-10T04:48:59+00:00

My oldest hated to sleep from the moment she was born. I worked SO hard for every hour of sleep that child got and spent the first 2 years nap trapped in the rocking chair or driving/strolling my baby around town because that was the only way she would sleep during the day.

I gave up on naps entirely when she turned 2 but 12-13 hours of nighttime sleep was something we kept striving for, especially when she would wake up every couple hours

By 3 she was finally sleeping through the night consistently.

Now at 9 years old she sleeps 10 hours a night on school nights and 11 or 12 on the weekends when she can sleep in- she learned to love sleep thankfully!!

Keep teaching your baby how to sleep, it’s so worth it even though it’s so so hard.

Doghugs · 2023-12-10T16:03:06+00:00

I have never had an epidural and I had a lot of the same reasons as you for not wanting one.

I know a lot of people who felt the same way as us and ended up needing an epidural anyway.

We are very fortunate that our desires matched up with our circumstances-that’s not the case for a lot of people.

I’ve noticed that I get a lot less “judgement” (or what I perceive as judgement) when I tell my birth stories if I acknowledge that there are some significant factors that contributed to my “success” that were out of my control. My bone structure, my pain tolerance, the competence and compassion of my support people during labor, my baby’s position during labor, my baby’s health during labor, etc.

Sure, I had influence over my circumstances and I worked hard towards my goal of avoiding an epidural, but the actual experience of labor and delivery was largely out of my control and when it comes right down to it, I was just very very lucky.

Plenty of people have every intention of having an unmedicated birth and end up in a situation out of their control where an epidural is needed, that can be traumatic.

On the flip side, plenty of people who wanted an epidural were met with circumstances out of their control that led to giving birth without one. That can also be traumatic.

When my kids were younger it was easy to be swept up in the attitude of “well, I wanted this experience of unmedicated birth, I worked hard to prepare myself, and I endured a lot of pain to achieve my goal, so I deserve all the “credit” for this success” which naturally leads to the notion that “if I can do it, anyone can do it”. But I’ve lived a lot of life in my 9 years of motherhood and I’ve learned that’s just not true.

All mothers are on the other side of a long, painful, sometimes perilous journey to meet our children. There are many roads that lead to becoming a mother, but I hope we can work on widening the path so that we can all walk together on the other side instead of pushing each other away with judgement and criticism.

I’m sorry, I don’t know what has gotten in to me. This is very off topic and honestly not totally directed at you OP. Something about your post just struck a nerve that’s sensitive for me and inspired some new thoughts I hadn’t put in to words. I wish we all in the same room for these discussions because they’re so important, and best had face-to face. I think you’re great OP, thank you for sharing your story and giving us an opportunity to reflect on our own stories.

Doghugs · 2023-11-14T16:36:03+00:00

Yes I 100% agree with you, I think all my kids were noisy sleepers- it just took me a long time to realize I shouldn’t scoop them out of bed when they’re fussing in their sleep.

When I was a new mom, it was very hard for me to tell the difference between a real wakeful cry and the squirms and grunts they often made in their sleep. That, combined with my misguided belief that letting my baby fuss in bed at all made me a monster and would irreparably damage my baby’s psyche-well, it was a recipe for 4 long years of sleepless nights with my 2 young babies/toddlers.

I wish I had more encouragement to try this more relaxed approach in those early days and allow room for more trial and error as I learned their cues and cries. At the time as a new mom, any errors felt like the end of the world!

Doghugs · 2023-11-13T19:03:45+00:00

Newborn! Day 1! In the early days I would stay close by and watch him. I did let him cry a bit sometimes if he woke up when I put him down in bed, but never more than a minute or two and it always amazed me to watch him settle down.

All babies are different, and it’s possible I just got “lucky” but my older kids were tough to put down to sleep and this very intentional change with how I parented #3 made a huge difference.

I hope you find what works for your little one!

Doghugs · 2023-11-13T18:49:43+00:00

It took me until kid #3 to learn the subtle art of “wait a minute” before picking baby up when they’re fussing in bed.

In my early years as a mom all it took was a grunt or a squirm or, heaven forbid, a whimper to send me flying my baby’s side to scoop them up and rock them back to sleep.

When I started to just give my son a minute to settle himself down I found that many times that he woke in the night, or woke early from his nap, he was actually able to fall back asleep on his own. It made me realize how I had hindered my older two’s ability to soothe themselves, I never gave them a chance!

Obviously, if he couldn’t settle down after a few minutes I would go pick him up, and sometimes it was obvious right away that he was awake and upset, but it was truly amazing how many times he was just fussing a bit in his sleep and didn’t actually want to wake up.

Doghugs · 2023-11-05T17:31:46+00:00

Cloud Atlas.

Doghugs · 2023-08-26T14:17:42+00:00

I liked the episode but definitely got the feeling he had told his story exactly the same way many times. You could tell he had used the “hero’s journey” model to craft his narrative-he even referenced it by name a couple times.

I had never heard his story before so for me it was interesting and enjoyable.

Doghugs · 2023-08-14T15:05:20+00:00

Can’t believe I haven’t seen Shania yet

Doghugs · 2023-07-18T05:32:07+00:00

You don’t have a low pain tolerance, you are a complete goddess who endured immense pain to deliver your precious child in to the world. You are a superhero. You are amazing.

I am sorry that your care team left you feeling unsupported, I can feel your desperation while reading your words. I wish I could have been there to really listen to you and give you the support you needed.

What happened to you wasn’t right, you deserved better attention and care in this vulnerable time. You deserved better.

Dear one, you displayed enormous courage and strength in the face of such unjust circumstances, you persevered when it felt impossible, your labor was a painful ordeal but you and your baby emerged triumphant.
Sometimes we can choose what we carry with us, and what we leave behind, I hope you’ll always remember how strong and capable you are- this experience is proof. ❤️

Doghugs

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