How do I fix Asleep, Waiting for Solar on a Tesla?

Reduce home load so solar can run the house and recharge. Then: In daylight, toggle the side switch to retry manually.

Tesla

Waiting for Solar

Asleep, Waiting for Solar

Off-grid with too little energy to form a grid, system sleeps and retries hourly in daylight.

Common causes

Depleted battery off-gridLoad exceeding available solar

What to check

STEP 1

Reduce home load so solar can run the house and recharge.

STEP 2

In daylight, toggle the side switch to retry manually.

Escalate if

Never resumes despite good daylight and minimal load

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