Solar Eye

adeh61 · Apr 14, 2012

Hi All,

This is my first post and I have a question about the Solar Eye used on the ever-solar inverter. I found it simple enough to set up but the display is very dull especially in the morning it looks similar to when a lcd screen has bad battery power, I have the dc adapter plugged in all the time with batteries installed for backup. Has anyone else installed one of these and is the screen easily viewable. I don't know for sure but it seems to have a faulty screen or power supply maybe.

Thanks

Ade

stavtoon · Apr 15, 2012

adeh61 said:
Hi All,

This is my first post and I have a question about the Solar Eye used on the ever-solar inverter. I found it simple enough to set up but the display is very dull especially in the morning it looks similar to when a lcd screen has bad battery power, I have the dc adapter plugged in all the time with batteries installed for backup. Has anyone else installed one of these and is the screen easily viewable. I don't know for sure but it seems to have a faulty screen or power supply maybe.

Thanks

Ade

I have one of these mate and it is dull all the time and is really annoying when the display goes off after about 2-3 minutes. Especially when im trying to power watch.

adeh61 · Apr 15, 2012

Sounds like the lcd is pretty poor on this device. It is annoying when you have to keep adjusting the viewing angle in order to be able to read it properly. I have been looking at some other wifi devices but don’t know if any are compatible with the ever-solar inverter.

PVKitsDirect · Apr 19, 2012

EverSolar have had terrible trouble with the Solar Eye. We have had them on order for months and we keep being told there is a delay with the manufacture and/or that they have been recalled.

We have now swapped to the GEO PV, which is a hand-held unit and reads the pulse from the gen meter, so it can be used on any system regardless of inverter.

adeh61 · Apr 20, 2012

Thanks for the info. What sort of price is the Geo compared with the Solar Eye

PVKitsDirect · Apr 20, 2012

The GEO price is fixed by the manufacturer, so wherever you buy it, it should be £125.00. We have one set up in the office and it's pretty good. Battery life is poor though, so it's best to keep it on the cradle as much as possible.

adeh61 · Apr 20, 2012

Thanks, I will look into the Geo and maybe send the Solar Eye Back.

SolarCity · Apr 23, 2012

The GEO monitors are next to useless. We've used a few but won't be buying any more after this batch is sold.

They're unreliable and we've had to go back to numerous customers to set them back up again.

PVKitsDirect · Apr 23, 2012

SolarCity said:
The GEO monitors are next to useless. We've used a few but won't be buying any more after this batch is sold.

They're unreliable and we've had to go back to numerous customers to set them back up again.

Really? That's interesting feedback. We've had no trouble with them as yet. Why have they had to be set-up again? One would hope they are paired for life. What unreliability have you found? Is the reported figure different to the actual generation?

SibertSolar · Apr 23, 2012

Yeah, we were looking at bringing the Solo PV (GEO) units on board but the MOQ's for distribution were ridiculous and I have had differing opinions from installers on how reliable or easy to set up they are. You'll always get differing opinions, of course, but we decided to leave it alone...

SolarCity · Apr 23, 2012

PVKitsDirect said:
Really? That's interesting feedback. We've had no trouble with them as yet. Why have they had to be set-up again? One would hope they are paired for life. What unreliability have you found? Is the reported figure different to the actual generation?

We have no idea why they had to be set up again, but thats what we had to do. Apparently, the batteries only last 12 months and then you have to re-pair them up again.

The generated figures are pretty accurate. I have one on my desktop right now which I monitor.

We've been back to three since we've been installing them. That's three too many and I don't like the idea of going back to each every 12 months either.

PVKitsDirect · Apr 23, 2012

Maybe we'll get problems in the future. Hope not.

adeh61 · Apr 23, 2012

I haven't had any problems with it recieving the data. The actual display is very faint some menus I can hardly see at all.

whinmoor · Apr 24, 2012

One of our customers took a photo of his Solar Eye which he has mounted on a wall in his utility room.

adeh61 · Apr 24, 2012

My display looks similar to that on that menu but when I scroll to the history menu and look at the weekly data the more bars that show the more the screen fades. Its as though it can't support too many graphics and numbers and the power starts failing, even though I have it plugged in to a mains adapter.

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