Does anyone know of a system that can be installed which monitors energy use on seperate circuits within a home and gives data on energy usage?
I have a customer asking about it and it sounds interesting.
Has anyone had experiance with solar fox monitoring, or any other kind, i am using a sunny webox and a solar fox display, but im struggling to link the webbox to the solar fox, any ideas.
Hi ive been looking on the forumn for a PV monitoring unit.
Here is my requirement
What wireless energy monitor can do ALL of these 3 things and ALL be SHOWN on the display together.
1. Current panel production (eg. panels currently producing 3.3KW)
2. Net available PV electricity (eg. 3.3...
Hi all I’m currently installing PV and would like to know if any of you guys and girls could recommend any PV monitoring systems that I could offer to my customers as an add on or after sale extra? All ideas welcome as there a few to choose from. :D
We are looking for a simply easy to use and relatively inexpensive remote monitoring system to offer our customers. I know some of the large nationals are charging as much as £1650 for these....but I'm wondering if there is a decent one out there for around the £150 mark....
Any experiences or...
I am not an electrician but would be grateful for the professional advice of members of this forum please.
I have a 20 panel 4 Kw PV system installed on my house which was being monitored by "Wattsure" and allowed me to see the instantaneous and accumulated output on my PC or mobile devices...
I have recommended to a few customers that they download SMAs software for monitoring their systems. Unfortunately one customer has a Mac (silly person!) does anyone know if a download is available for the Mac?
I'd really appreciate some help with setting up monitoring on a SolarEdge system.
Computers aren't my strongest field so I think I'm confusing myself. I've tried setting up with the Netgear WNCE2001 WiFi adaptor but I'm not getting anywhere. What setting should I be using on the SolarEdge...
Hello everyone:
I have just started to working in a project of energy efficiency in buildings and I always see references to a monitoring proyect and metering proyect separately but in my opinion these two are the same thing, you need a metering project to have points with measures, and we need...
I've just lost a job to a company who are offering a monitoring system which links to the central heating system - what on earth are they talking about? The customer says "I have decided to go with a fully monitored system it controls the central heating and can be added to as new technology...
Hi first off, I am not an electrician but know enough to be classed as dangerous but wise enough to not touch anything I shouldn't.
Have been wanting to monitor my elecy usage for a while and was wondering if there is anything out there that I can buy and have fitted that does this? Seen a...
Would it be worth asking for these on a roof with zero shading? Kind of like the idea of being able to monitor each panel and the fact it's ethernet. This bluetooth for SMA really doesn't impress me.
As the title says! Using our BT "guide" our broadband usage has recently doubled to 35GB and I don't kniow why.
In our house we have:
2 adults
2 kids
3 computers
2 Ipod Touch with wifi
Vodafone suresignal
3 mobiles with internet access
As a rule we don't use the computer to watch TV...
HI
I just wondered if anyone who has setup a solar edge install with monitoring cuould help here?
I have used the iphone mapping tool and sent that off, i have registered a new install and recieved an email with my login details and i have verified my inverter connection with the server (<s...
Hi,
I am not an electrician and my knowledge about electricity is quite limited but I believe that this is the right place where to submit my question.
I recently had a solar PV panels installed and I am monitoring solar PV generation and whole house consumption by...
Has anyone else noticed the SolarEdge monitoring portal has been updated today? There's a new admin section which allows quite a lot of self-configuration which could only previously be done via the support desk. However the site layout section appears to be broken :-( I've dropped them a...
What is a good inexpensive accurate monitoring device to measure imported Household Electricity consumption, whilst using a PV system?
CT clamps don't indicate directionality of flow.
If a solar system exports energy, no current is being imported into the house, yet a CT clamp will measure the...
Ok Guys,
I Have a Wattson energy meter monitoring my PV and domestic energy usage.
I know alot of you guys dont like them but i seem to love it.
Only annoying thing is extracting the data and auto uploading it to PVoutput.org all the time.
I have 2 inverters, so don't want to fork out for 2...
Having had our PV installations (mine and dad's) a couple of weeks now, we've had time to get used to living with it etc. and our attention has now naturally turned towards monitoring the system in order to try and make optimal benefit from it.
The installers supplied an OWL basic wireless...
Can any of you guys help on this please?
We have one of the above that was installed as the quoted Power One inverter wasn't available, however the Power One should have had their Bluetooth Graphic Display included.
Is there something similar for the XS3200, or alternatively is there a way to...
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