pv monitors and dataloggers

[poheZ]

Hi all

I have put in about 8 Wattsons last week and have not had a great experience with them, so we have brought in some the solo pv from greenenergyoptions

Has anyone installed these yet? Any feedback?

I also wondered whether anyone could recommend any universal pv monitors that are any good?

I also wondered why we havent had a 'universal' datalogger that could be fitted to any pv system just to log the generated total (day,week,year etc) and upload to a server? Does one exist?

Any views would be great!

 

[dansk]

GEO Pv Unit has been covered on here many times, i use them on all my install bar SMA, there great, and you can upload data to online portal.

 

[GaryM]

This one Dan?

Microgeneration: Solar - GEO - Green Energy Options

 

[mdovey]

There's always the Solar Log 200 (Overview) which can connect to most makes of inverters, and comes in both ethernet and wifi versions (as well as the more functional Solar Log 500 and 1000). These aren't cheap however.

 

[GreggElectrical]

My experience with the solo has been great so far. I do have one customer who is struggling to upload data, Got a feeling its user error mind.

 

[screwdriver]

Hi all

I have put in about 8 Wattsons last week and have not had a great experience with them, so we have brought in some the solo pv from greenenergyoptions

Has anyone installed these yet? Any feedback?

I also wondered whether anyone could recommend any universal pv monitors that are any good?

I also wondered why we havent had a 'universal' datalogger that could be fitted to any pv system just to log the generated total (day,week,year etc) and upload to a server? Does one exist?

Any views would be great!

Would be interested to hear about what problems you have encountered with the Wattsons as we are thinking of offering them to customers as a 'Premium' upgrade from the standard monitors we fit (eco eye)

was it Wattson solar or just the standard wattsons you fitted?

 

[SolarCity]

We've had problems with the GEO monitors. We've had a few of them that have failed to display the data after a couple of weeks (or even hours). Going back to one of them today. I could well do without having to mess around with them.

 

[dansk]

Thas happened to me, easy fix, needs repairing to transmitter, will post instructions soon.

ive done loads of these, know most of the quirks

 

[SolarCity]

Yeah, the only problem is that you have to visit site to fix it. Right pain in the spinestand.

 

[dansk]

Hi,

3 things can be causing it not to read the generation.

1) - The LED reader is not directly over the flashing LED on the meter

2) - Most likley - The LED reader is not inserted into the transmitter far enough, they need a real hard push in to position.

3) - It needs re-pairing onto another channel, do the following:

With the Solo turned on and on the home screen press and hold the pair button on the back of the display, keep this pressed until the words NETLEFT appear.
Press and hold the middle button on the front of the display until you are back on the home screen again.
You need to turn the Solo off and on again by removing the power supply, while it is starting up again the Solo will find the best wireless channel to work on, wait for it to get back on the home screen.
While this is starting up take the transmitter and remove one of the batteries.
Press and release the pair button and you should see the words PAIRING displayed.
On the transmitter you need to press and hold the pair button while re-inserting the battery that you removed earlier. You will see a green LED light flash this will now be in pair mode with the display, your display should now show PAIRED and you should see a tick.
You can now return to the home screen by pushing the middle button on the display and connect the transmitter back up.

 

[dansk]

This one Dan?

Microgeneration: Solar - GEO - Green Energy Options

Yep this is the one.

 

[Graddie]

I also wondered whether anyone could recommend any universal pv monitors that are any good?

I also wondered why we havent had a 'universal' datalogger that could be fitted to any pv system just to log the generated total (day,week,year etc) and upload to a server? Does one exist?

Any views would be great!

I am looking into installing a Current Cost EnviR monitor with a NetSmart 24 bridge in order to monitor a pv installation remotely via the Current Cost web-based dashboard.

Has anybody any experience of this system please?

 

[dansk]

Nope never done one of these - but out of curiosity what inverter have you?

 

[dansk]

My experience with the solo has been great so far. I do have one customer who is struggling to upload data, Got a feeling its user error mind.

I had this the other week, customer had to "log out" and "log back in" and all was ok.

 

[Graddie]

Aurora PVI. I'm monitoring my home system using the Aurora PowerOne Communicator programme on a pc, which works brilliantly (although at present I can only get this programme to work with Windows XP and not Windows 7 - still waiting for a 'fix').

I want to monitor a second system remotely without the need for a pc - hence the Current Cost.