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    Tesla Powerwall 3 · ACT 2906

    The spot stayed, the battery changed

    The battery could not go where the owner wanted it.

    A single white Tesla-badged battery mounted on the grey rendered wall of a house, beside a timber-clad corner and a tall narrow window, standing on a pale timber deck in hard sunlight

    What the customer wrote

    Everything was smooth from the initial quote, through to the installation. There was some initial back and forth about which type of battery to install and location. In the end my preferred location was not going to meet standards which then meant having to change the brand of battery to one that would be more suitable outdoors. This was all handled well by Michael and the team.
    Steve4.75 out of 5.Published on SolarQuotes

    System specifications

    Battery
    Tesla Powerwall 3
    Battery capacity
    13.5 kWh
    Siting
    Rated for outdoors
    On the day
    Plumber capped a gas line

    About this job

    Where a battery may be installed

    Australian standards restrict battery siting: clearances to windows and doors, distance from exits and habitable rooms, the construction of the wall behind it, and whether the unit is rated for outdoor conditions. A position that suits a homeowner often fails one of those tests. The check belongs before the sale, because discovering it on install day means either a compliance shortcut or a cancelled booking.

    Changing the product to suit the location

    Two ways out of a siting problem: move the battery, or choose one rated for where it needs to go. Here the location stayed and the brand changed to a unit suitable outdoors. That is not a small swap. Capacity, backup behaviour, cabling and the monitoring app all change with it, so the quote has to be rebuilt rather than adjusted.

    The other trades

    Battery installs are sub-contracted to the electricians who do them every week, which is normal and worth saying plainly. Sites throw up work that is not electrical. On this job a disused gas line still ran to an old barbecue point, so a plumber came the same day to remove and cap it. One visit, one mess, one clean-up.

    How we work

    The job above ran the way every Sunstak job runs. Six steps, from the bill you send us to the day your system is switched on.

    1. A cyan sign board standing on a driveway, lettered sunstak above the words THIS HOUSE IS POWERED BY SUNSTAK with the address sunstak.com.au along the bottom, the front of a white car in the left foreground and timber steps with two orange traffic cones behind it

      Before the visit

      Send us two bills, one from summer and one from winter, and tell us roughly when your house is busy. Your own numbers are where the design starts.

    2. Two men reaching to shake hands on the front path of a brick house with solar panels on its roof, one of them in a dark t-shirt carrying a circular cyan mark, while a woman stands in the open front doorway behind them

      Site visit or phone consultation

      One of our energy geeks goes through the roof, the switchboard and the meter with you, at the house or over the phone. What goes where, what the roof can carry and whether the board has room all get settled here.

    3. Two people at a desk in an office, one pointing at a wide monitor showing an aerial view of a house with a solar panel layout drawn on its roof

      Customised design

      A Sunstak engineer designs the system in house. You get back a drawing of your own house with the equipment set out on it, and what decided where each piece went.

    4. A man at a timber desk holding a telephone handset to his ear, two monitors in front of him showing an aerial view of rooftops and a bar chart, beside a keyboard, an open notebook and a mug

      Quote approval

      Your quote lists every item with its model number, and the exclusions as plainly as the inclusions. There is nothing to sign on the day, and nothing is ordered until you approve it.

    5. A person standing on a tiled roof holding a large solar panel above their head against a blue sky, with another person's hand reaching up from the gutter below

      Installation

      We tell you up front what gets switched off on the day, and for how long.

    6. A single-storey timber-clad house on a dry rural block at golden hour, its pitched metal roof covered by a full array of solar panels, a white battery standing against the timber wall beside a car charger with its cable coiled, a dark grey car parked on the gravel driveway and gum trees and low hills behind

      Post-installation support

      Nobody leaves until the system is commissioned and the monitoring is running on your phone. After that, service and warranty go through the same office that did the install.

    More of the work

    Every one of them is a customer's own account of the job.

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      A second battery, and the first one fixed

      The owner wanted a second battery beside one another company had installed a year earlier, so inspecting that first one was part of the job. Faults nobody could see at quoting turned up on the day, and were corrected at no charge.

      Sunstak have just added a second Tesla Powerwall battery to my system, which had been installed a year ago by another provider. … The quality and professionalism of the installation was particularly impressive. Several deficiencies in the installation of the existing battery by my previous supplier were rectified without cost or question, even though some were not apparent at the time of quoting.
      Peter SolarQuotes
      Battery
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      Battery capacity
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      Existing battery
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      Rectification
      Previous supplier's defects, no charge
      Two white Tesla-badged batteries standing side by side against a board-formed concrete retaining wall on a paved terrace, with ornamental grasses along the top of the wall and trees behind

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      Quoted after looking at the house

      Retrofitting storage to an existing array depends on things you can only see on site. The inverter already fitted, spare ways in the switchboard, where a battery can legally sit, and how far that is from the meter. Some of the companies asked to quote this job never visited the house.

      I reviewed all of the companies on the ACT Government approved list for a solar battery to add to my existing solar panel system. I sought quotes from the 6 best rated companies. From the 4 quotes I received I chose SunStak. The main reason I chose them was because they were the most responsive, helpful and reasonably priced, a couple of the others didn't even visit the house before quoting.
      Berceuse SolarQuotes
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      Approved list
      ACT Government battery scheme
      Quotes sought
      Six approached, four quoted
      Site visit
      Some competitors quoted without one
      A white Tesla home battery mounted on dark blue weatherboard beside an open door, with two people talking at a table inside the lit room

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      A school hall in Wanniassa

      A school roof is a set-out problem with a deadline attached. The array had to be planned, delivered and commissioned inside the break before the new term, on a site coordinated by somebody else. Forty kilowatts of panels onto one long hall roof, in five days, with six people on it.

      Thank you for delivering this project before the start of a new school term
      Project Manager, Trinity Christian School Sunstak Capability Statement, July 2025
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      Solar
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      On site
      Five days, six staff
      Overhead aerial view of four long rows of solar panels on the curved-ridge roof of a large school building, with a playground and a yellow climbing frame in the yard alongside

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      A temple in Lyneham

      The temple was referred by community members worried about its power bills: a large, draughty, hard-to-heat complex. Twenty kilowatts of solar and a forty-kilowatt-hour battery, with the meter board upgraded to carry it. The battery is there to hold the peak down, which on a commercial tariff is a separate charge from the energy.

      The Abbot is very pleased and wishes to pass on his appreciation and support to get this project delivered
      Project Manager, Wat Dhammadharo Sunstak Capability Statement, July 2025
      Solar
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      Battery
      Three Tesla Powerwall 3
      Battery capacity
      40.5 kWh
      Switchboard
      Meter board upgraded
      Aerial view of solar panels across the tiled roof of a long brick building, with a spire-roofed hall beside it and gilded temple roofs among trees behind

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