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I can't imagine Tesla would ship that battery bank without fuse protection inside (and I imagine it is a "no user serviceable parts inside" kind of design...it looks like a black box device). Every solar deployment design has fuses on either side of the batteries.



One neat engineering trick in tesla battery packs is that the last resort fusing is part of the battery pack construction itself (the spot-welded connection to the actual cell is intentionaly surprisingly weak to act as a last resort fuse)

On the other hand, the difference is in that for the mains there is always going to be some kind of fusing, that is not part of what the tinkerer owns and probably does not even know where it is located. For solar and huge battery packs you own the whole thing and can mess with anything in the system, even more so when you build the thing from individual cells instead of buying COTS solution with bunch of "no user servicable parts inside" labels.




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