[RE-wrenches] Off-grid e-gauge system

[Philip Boutelle]

William,
The installer or end user can rename the graph legends themselves by going
to the eGauge settings menu and editing the 'register' fields under the
installation settings.
-Phil Boutelle

On Thursday, December 27, 2012, William Miller wrote:

>  John:
>
> If we can just get one more tweak:  I'd like to change the legends on the
> home screen to replace the term "grid" with "generator."  I think this is
> the final step to make the display make sense.
>
> The E-Gauge engineers and tech support people are very helpful and
> responsive to special requests.  This is a good service model.  I will
> continue to use their products.
>
> William Miller
>
>
> At 03:30 PM 12/27/2012, you wrote:
>
> The eGauge can measure battery voltage now (using L3 input), been running
> with it for months, and they are finishing up work on a DC CT to show
> amperage too. Fantastic product, and now even more so for the off-grid
> crowd. This is the first time we can really see what it happening in remote
> sites - when the batteries run down, the generator runs, how loads affect
> both; we can get emails and/or text messages to keep track of generator run
> time (think failure to auto-stop), etc.
> John McNicholas
> *From: *Chris Mason <cometenergysystems at gmail.com <javascript:_e({},
> 'cvml', 'cometenergysystems at gmail.com');>>
> *Date: *December 27, 2012 4:16:13 PM EST
> *To: *RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org <javascript:_e({},
> 'cvml', 're-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org');>>
> *Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Off-grid e-gauge system*
> *Reply-To: *RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 're-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org');>
> >
>
> http://egauge2574.egaug.es/
> Now, what do you want to measure. Being an off-grid system, all you can
> measure is the output. The normal use for an egauge is to compare load with
> output in a grid tied system, or output to utility export/import in a
> hybrid system. In the system I just set up, it would only show the power
> output of the inverter, as the CTs cannot measure the DC output of the
> solar system.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:48 PM, William Miller <william at millersolar.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'william at millersolar.com');>>
> wrote:
>  Chris:
>
> I am trying to demonstrate for a potential customer what and E-Gauge
> display on an off-grid system would look like.
>
>
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