Tesla Powerwall › gateway control board and firmware
Gateway stuck at Grid Qualifying, battery never discharges
fix confirmed
Symptoms
- System backs up fine during a real or forced outage, but in Self-Powered/self-consumption mode never comes out of standby when solar drops, always drawing from the grid instead
- 'Go Off-Grid' fails saying home consumption exceeds what the Powerwalls can handle
- Gateway API shows pinv_grid_state stuck at 'Grid_Qualifying' with repeated PINV_a008_vfCheckRocof warnings
Alerts and codes
PINV_a008_vfCheckRocofGrid_Qualifying
The cause and the fix
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