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Comments: PYPL up 12%
Comments: Yes, for me, they also quoted $16K ($8K battery and $8k installation) for a tesla battery. But then I found these Korean batteries that have a bigger capacity than Tesla (16kwh) and are only $2K. Installation is another $6k. I decided against it. I think in a year or two we will find SS batteries that will not lose their capacity with recharge and will be cheaper.
Comments: I understand what the optimizer is supposed to do but do not understand why it is needed as an electrical engineer. :) An optimized is a circuit that prioritizes the panels that are generating more electricity. This is useful for areas where there are trees or panels are pointing in different directions so that as the sun moves across the sky, different panels produce different amounts of juice. But why an optimizer is needed escapes me. What difference does it make which one is producing more? Isn't every bit of juice generated sent to the electric company? For me, it was $2k. I see the extra electricity produced because f it every day though. At best, it is about 5% of the total electricity generated each day.
Comments: I didn’t get the battery either. It was $15k. Of course it is more important here with storms and the power outages. I was cheap again! I assume with my younger one finishing her degree next year and moving out, our usage reduces enough to bring the solar system to 100%+
Comments: Tell me about optimizer
Comments: By the way, I did not get a battery. Do you think I should have? With NEM 2.0 I thought it would take a long time to recover the additional $8K. The other reason is that I think that battery technlogy will change completely in the next year or so through the solid state batteries.
Comments: Since I worked in a restaurant, I try to be generous with the tip but it’s getting out of hand. 15% used to be the norm. I remember the formula was to double the tax for the tip. I also don’t see why I need to tip 20% for a glass of $15 wine that costs $20/bottle in the store! Worse is that now tipping is everywhere! Coffee shops, taxi, hair salons, … Anything you buy asks you to add tip these days. That is one more thing I love about Europe. They pay the staff well enough that we don’t have to tip them.
Comments: Sounds like you achieved what you needed. Producing as much as you use is a great result. My overproduction was unintentional. Partly because I planned a second electric car. And partly because the guys said that there is room for more and adding more panels only adds the cost of the panel and not any more labor. He was nice to me. So, I installed 24 panels. Then there is a little bit extra that I am producing because of an optimizer that a friend recommended I install. I suspect that once I get that second electric car, I will be using all that I produce.
Comments: Good to hear. Tesla solar is not really Tesla anyway. They use a 3rd party! I can imagine San Diego would be a great choice for solar no matter what. After 3.5 years of solar ownership, I’m thinking I should have added couple of more solar panels to bring the total to 110%. I was cheap and went with 98%! Either way, it’s done its job. I was looking at my overall usage vs exported and it’s pretty close. Imported 16.2 MWh and exported 15.9 MWh for 40 months.
Comments: In comparison, a teacher makes about $200/day. The guy who showed up at my house to jackhammer through hard concrete for an entire day (a young kid, may be 19 or 20, who does not appreciate that it will cause a lot of health issues later in life) made $30/hour for that job in line with what the teacher gets but far less than the waitress. I paid a lot more than this though because most of the money went to the company that hires these guys. I would say a very inverted salary structure that has been exaggerated with the crazy inflation.
Comments: As for the $1000/day, I was shocked too. Was wondering why a professor would wait tables. But from the prices having gone up so much, I totally see this. The five of us went to a Brazilian steakhouse two weeks ago. The bill was $500 before tip. A 20% tip which was the minimum on their machine would be $100. The waiter only showed up to bring water. there is no menu, the salad bar is self service, and five guys rotate through the whole huge restaurant bringing different cuts of meat. We had all of them stop by our table, each spending at most a minute with us. With the minute of the waitress, we had 6 minutes of their attention. We were there for a total of 45 minutes. Does that justify $100 tip? May be with the mint that they brought at the end of the meal! 
Comments: I have installed with a different solar company. Their product was so much better and cheaper than tesla. I am now generating so much more electricity than what Tesla had proposed for $10K less. Enough credit to also cover my gas usage. I am still not done with Tesla though. I am still negotiating damages. But the good news is that I was able to convince SDGE to give me NEM2.0 two years after the deadline. :) Since that was most of the damage, my claim against Tesla has now been reduced to $12K which is all structural damage to the house. They want to pay $4K! I have not reached out to them in about a year and so, will do this now and will keep you posted.
Comments: Faramarz, I’m glad you got the solar work out. And wow! $1,000/day? I waited tables during college. My best day was $200 and that was just a one off! Usually it was $30-$50 per day.
Comments: On the restaurants, in general hospitality industry is crazy. NPR interviewed a Professor of Psychiatry at a university in NYC who also was waiting tables at a high-end restaurant. She said she was making about $1,000 per day. I see at least two problems with this. First that a waiter should not be making that much. There are a lot of other jobs in the society that require a lot more skill and education which do not pay $1,000/day. It is insane that a Professor has to do this to survive. I am sorry to say that USA is becoming more and more like Iran. People have to have a second job to survive.
Comments: Wow Zinsky, those are pretty hefty utility bills. Switching to electric makes sense. Our electricity bill used to be high, until I installed solar. Rates keep going up. Our summer electricity bills were always high. Last August was about $700. I am guessing this summer, it would have been about $1000/month. My bills (electricity+gas) are constantly negative even though we have added the charging of an electric car to this as well. We'll have to see how winter will be. A lot less solar generation but also a lot less usage.
Comments: QCOM just declared war on NVDA n AMD. Their stock is up 12%
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Comments: Faramarz, Very true. Restaurants are about 30% more expensive than couple of years ago. $30-$40/person in an average restaurant is now normal (without alcohol)! I shop at Costco and it’s higher, in average, 30%+ as well. We, as a family, are also cutting our outdoor dining from twice a week to one for now. I know San Diego is different but with the weather here, the utilities have gone up drastically. Thank god for the solar system I installed. The bill during summer for most of my friends here is above $1,000/month! Winters, with the gas heater is about $2,000-$2,500 from December to March. I bought electric heaters for this winter! And don’t get me started on the healthcare costs!!! Middle class is being wiped out quickly while number of billionaires are doubling each year. I don’t even want to think about the people on minimum wage!
Comments: Zinsky, yesterday my son and I had dinner at an average Japanese restaurant. I only had a California role and a lettus wrap. My son has also a pretty standard order with no drinks. The total bill was $76. We will not go out as much as we should any more. Inflation was bad during Biden era but it is at a whole different level now.
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