[RE-wrenches] Solar Pathfinder data manipulation

[Greg Egan]

Glenn,

Thanks for the quick response.  We override the latitude default because 
we never install arrays at a latitude tilt angle. 

90 degrees sheds snow.  That's setting 1.  Latitude minus 15 is the 
other season.  So what we're doing is making 2 reports- one at 90 and 
one at 52 for example - and then calculating the "winter" power 
production at 90 degrees plus the "summer" power production at 52 
degrees to get an estimate of the total annual power production at a 
particular site.  What I wanted to do was export the data from SPA to 
excel so I could combine the data from the 2 reports (summer and winter 
settings) quickly and accurately.  It may be do-able with the SPA 
software but I get an error message when I go into the EDIT menu and 
click "copy report data".  I contacted SPA and they will get back with 
me on it but I just thought that someone out there might have already 
come up with a slick way of doing it already.

I just got off the phone with the SP folks and they are going to talk 
with their programmers and see if they can't come up with an update that 
would let users put in a different latitude for every month - so if they 
are under snow Dec - January for instance, they could show the array 
tilt as 90 for that period.

Thanks

Greg

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Greg Egan

Remote Power Inc.
981 Gold Mine Trail
Fairbanks, AK 99712
P. 907.457.4299

U.S.Distributor for Outback Power Systems and other premium power equipment.

Hi Greg,

 

We use this tool & on the first page where you setup a new report, you can
specify the 'surface tilt settings' and override the Latitude default.

You can create a full report, then 'edit report' and change the tilt to run
other scenarios.

 

HTH

 

-Glenn Burt