[RE-wrenches] Successor to SunEye 210?

[Andrew Truitt]

I think the fact that no manufacturer has jumped in to fill the void left
by the SunEye is an indicator that remote shade analysis tools like Aurora
(my favorite) are the likely path forward for the industry.  These tools
can typically make it possible to generate a full rendering and shade
analysis in less than 15 minutes for the experienced user, without ever
having to get on a roof.  NREL did some validation studies (here's Aurora's
<http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy16osti/65558.pdf>) and found a few tools to
produce results as good or better than the SunEye, which makes sense to me
since the analysis is based on an integral over the whole roof surface as
opposed to a few point measurements.  Of course the "garbage in, garbage
out" principle is very applicable.




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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Dan Fink <danbob88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter;
> My understanding is that the only thing left of Solmetric at Vivint is the
> PV Analyzer, and though they stated a year ago that they were going to
> "streamline" the PV sales process so that the site survey could be
> accomplished on the same day as the sale, I've seen nothing else from them.
> Very happy that I've kept the heavily-modded Solar Pathfinder that I
> bought in 1994, with a real tripod adaptor.
> For quicky site surveys and semi-interested customers, I use an Android
> smartphone app, which is pretty accurate IF you build a tripod adaptor for
> the phone.
> I'm surprised someone hasn't leapt in to claim this market share. Not all
> of us are big-city no-battery PV installers who can use the new Google tool
> that  estimates tree heights. My class experiments with this were a
> bust....it only sorta kinda works.
> Ground truth is the only thing I trust. Maybe I should just start building
> and marketing my Pathfinder and smartphone tripod adaptors.
>
>
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> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Peter Parrish <
> peter.parrish at calsolareng.com> wrote:
>
>> Can’t seem to find a SunEye product on the Solmetric website. Is it
>> tucked away on the Vivent site or somewhere else hard-to-find?
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter T. Parrish, Ph.D.
>>
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