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checking out my roof they realized that the roof was a little bit too old and too worn out for them to comfortably install solar on top of now since that's something that they would typically catch in the pre inspection process and let me know ahead of time and not actually on the day of installation Tesla said hey we're gonna offer to replace your roof here and so that's actually what happened over the past couple weeks they didn't replace the entire roof they agreed to do the area that the solar was going to be installed on top of but they sent a crew out came and did that and they did a really good job I did a little bit of a time lapse of that unfortunately a day one when they're actually tearing everything up the time lapse stops halfway through so unfortunately I can't show everything here but on day two they came back installed the rest of it finished it off and look they even even painted my little connector points for the plumbing stuff up there they painted it all so it would match and that pretty so from what I'm told today should actually be fairly simple all they really have to do is put the brackets and stuff on the roof put the solar panels on top of that and then connect it up to the inverter over there which is already installed so fortunately most of the work for today is already completed so it should be a relatively short day but I am going to document it for you guys nonetheless in fact I started the time-lapse pretty early today so this is already up and running in order to capture every moment or at least every three seconds or so oh look at this little one you're not supposed to have your toys outside oh and that's not allowed she doesn't kick oh now you're gonna poop meanwhile here is over here just incredibly well bathed yes good boy hero some thing I'm kind of hoping I can do today is they left one of these DeWalt cordless batteries for their dEWALT's power tools here so hoping I can return this cuz I don't have any of these tools it looks like it's seen better days though so maybe this one's dead but I'll give it back to him nonetheless this is from when the powerwall been in ohh so I just wanted to return it Tesla has arrived yay solar panels getting stacked up they're just gonna set a ladder up and taking them straight over the top of the roof these are the connectors they can be chained together I'm guessing these are directional do not disconnect under load the model panel is getting installed if SC 325 max power output is 325 watts and I didn't confirm that's so if they're under full direct sunlight and that's like peak performance per panel I was curious what's inside at work check like this look it's the inside of my inverter I'm part of it this is where it takes the sunlight makes it into go-juice and it spits it out there and goes over did that stuff sorry for the overly technical explanation people were laughing in the first video cuz I I was calling this a solar system portables I don't know solar system seems accurate to me people were like thinking that sounds pretty grandiose all the milky way down well there you have it guys as predicted work went pretty quickly today only took them a couple hours and the solar grid is installed now if you're counting all these there are 18 panels total 325 watts per panel means that's 5000 850 watts of total potential power that these can generate that's a peak of course so if it's overcast like it is today I'll probably be seeing a little bit less power generation than that's but it should be more than adequate to supply my home with the power it needs - how are things I was kind of curious about how these are actually mounted to the roof and if there was any flashing required or that kind of thing and they actually have these these plastic pieces that go so they they use a stud finder to find where the actual beams are and they mount directly to that there's a large screw or bolts it's pointing on the end so I believe that means it's screw and that just screws straight down through it and then there is a channel on the side where they can inject some goop the goop had a special name but I forget what it's called but the goop goes in there it fills out the bottom forms a seal between the roof and that plastic piece and then the goop starts squirting out the other side and that's how you know that it's full and that they can move on to the next one you also might notice that my whirly birds are gone and this is actually when they did the roofing the whirlybirds are old technology and they suck now but I've actually got a vent that's along the entire top line of the roof now so the air the warm air that goes up there during the summer when it's hot can just exit out there and apparently it's a much much more efficient way of doing that so that was a nice upgrade that came along with the roof and then kind of a nice finishing touch for the solar panels themselves is this kind of edging that they put along with them just to make them look like they're a little bit more flush with the roof apparently they've been doing this along the edges the bottom and maybe the top edges for a while but they've started adding them with some corner pieces to the sides too this is actually a newer thing that they've only been doing for the past few months but even though I signed up for this whole thing last year they went ahead and included that for no extra charge so I've definitely been appreciative of Tesla's efforts to make sure that I'm satisfied with this experience and even stuff like needing to do the roof or adding extra things like that they've not been up charging me or upselling me on even so that's pretty cool I feel like I've gotten some bonus stuff there without actually having to pay for it I want to point out that although all the hardware is installed still not completely done yet there's this conduit coming down here for the inverter and they're planning to do some better paint matching with that I'm ok with this paint matching that they did right here but I guess they're gonna try to do it a little bit more accurately before they paint that conduit right now of course the system is not on still need to schedule inspection from the city and with Southern California Edison and then I can actually get PTO or permission to operate and actually turn this whole system on so you also might notice that like for instance the stucco hasn't been replaced here this is specifically because the inspector actually still needs to check this before they give the okay and then that will be covered up too so there's still a little bit of stucco work to go on there and my intent was to close this video off by answering some of the questions that people have left in the comments of the past two installation videos but unfortunately I can't get the Tesla app up and running until I have the permission to operate here so I feel like I should put that off until the next video so guys if you have any questions for me specifically about this installation the power wall the solar or anything please leave those down in the comment section below and I'll check those out and when I do the flow of video on this which probably isn't gonna be for about a month or so and I'll give you a demo of the system in use I'll talk about how it's actually affecting my power bill and I'll talk a little bit more specifically about how it actually works just so you guys know if my power goes out if the grit goes out this will still act as a battery backup for the home that's actually something that it wasn't a hundred percent sure about if the grid goes down it will switch to the battery and it can run off the battery for a while also I can run my air conditioner off of the solar so the solar can power the AC during the day when it's hot out and I need the AC and the Suttons on the solar but the AC is not connected to the power wall so if the power is out I can't run off the power wall or if it's at night I need to run the AC off of the grid rather than the power room but we typically don't run the AC at night and I did come into this experience knowing that that was gonna be a thing and maybe if enough people clicked my referral link down in the video's description and get power walls themselves I can get another power wall because if I do five referrals I can get the red power Walt it's signed by Elon Musk this is purely an added thing that I discovered after the fact after I had paid for this whole system and everything but guys if my videos have helped you make this decision if you're like yeah I like what I've seen here and I'm down for the Tesla experience and you sign up consider using my referral link because I get a four hundred dollar credit for solar sign ups and five power wall sales and I get the red one signed by Elon and that would be kind of cool but guys that's gonna wrap it up for this video so definitely hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it hit the subscribe button too if you want to see my final follow-up video where I talk about all the other details and actually show you this whole system in use once I get the okay to turn it on from Southern California Edison thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time