Wow. It finally happened. We lose power at the farm on a hot sunny...
Ælectric Cybersolarfarmer@rhensing
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Jul 17, 2024
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Wow. It finally happened. We lose power at the farm on a hot sunny day and the wife called me to come hook up the Cybertruck. It’s currently running our 60 gallon bulk tank keeping the milk at a steady 34f and a whole bunch of chest freezers. I just wish the app showed the power output and an estimated remaining time based on the charge like it does with the PowerShare hardware.
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The Powerwalls are on a different meter at the road and back up our farms well pump and walk in freezer, as well as our WiFi and security cameras. 😎💪
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I seem to be losing about 3mi every 15 minutes. So 12mi per hour? 212mi remaining. 17.6hrs at this rate of consumption. 😮😬
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Update: The Cybertruck is running our huge vacuum pump and my son is milking the cows without issue. So the truck is running a mini-split, 7 or 8 deep freezers, a vacuum pump, a 50 gallon chill tank and an 500lb ice maker at the moment. 💪💪
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It’s been running things for 1 hour and 45 minutes now and I’m down to 196mi of range. May have been a little off with my estimates. This is incredible.
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I think true consumption is closer to 14mi/hr … so I still easily have 15hrs of energy. The vacuum pump is massive. TBH I can’t believe it’s running that.
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Oof. Cybertruck is easily gonna outlast the 2x Powerwalls AND it’s powering WAY more stuff. 💪😎
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Now we have lost power at the house (on a different line than the farm). I definitely need more Cybertrucks.
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Power is back so experiment has ended successfully. 😬
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FWIW here’s the massive vacuum pump the Cybertruck was powering to milk the cows. While running a chill tank and a mini split for AC and an ice maker and a ton of deep freezers. 💪
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/fin
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One more thing. The vacuum pump I believe is itself on a 50amp breaker. It draws a massive amount of power at startup. I honestly can’t believe starting that up with everything else running didn’t trip a breaker on the truck. With 10kw gas generators I would have to cut power to other things to get the vacuum pump up and running. This is really incredible.
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Welp now I feel silly. Just picked up the truck from the farm and noticed the outlets had an error. They tripped off when I plugged the truck in to charge. But when I reset them I noticed something …
DOH! Had I just sat in the truck I probably could have seen how much power was being exported and maybe seen an hour estimate or something. 😂🤦♂️
DOH! Had I just sat in the truck I probably could have seen how much power was being exported and maybe seen an hour estimate or something. 😂🤦♂️
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@wmorrill3 any chance of having the 14-50 plug on the truck show output power / draw and an estimated time remaining like it does with the PowerShare hardware? 🙏🙏
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@ExpElectric Thanks. Wanna buy it from me in 4-5 years? I’m done. 😂🤷♂️