[RE-wrenches] Successor to SunEye 210?

[Dan Fink]

Hi Kevin - We're using the Solar Shading app by Comoving Magnetics. It's
$18. It's pretty accurate, once you learn how hold  and tilt the phone. A
tripod adaptor will fix that by keeping tilt accurate, I'm looking for
something commercial to start with.
As for the Pathfinder tripod adaptor -- I'll take a photo of it when I get
back to the office later this week, and i might just put together a couple
samples made with thick plastic. The prototype is plywood.

Dan Fink
Adjunct Professor, Ecotech Institute
IREC Certified Instructor™ for:
~ PV Installation Professional
~ Small Wind Installer
Executive Director, Buckville Energy
NABCEP Accredited Continuing Education Providers™
970.672.4342



On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Kevin Pegg <KPegg at energyalternatives.ca>
wrote:

> Hi Dan,
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> Curious which Android app you are using.
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> My circa 2000 pathfinder came with the (flimsy but lightweight) tripod
> option and it is needing some work to repair it, so wondering about your
> real tripod adapter as well - that would make it a lot more robust. The
> number of times the clients Dog knocked over the pathfinder has beaten it
> up a bit more than I'd like.
>
>
>
> Kevin
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> *From:* RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Dan Fink
> *Sent:* March-07-16 11:56 AM
> *To:* RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] Successor to SunEye 210?
>
>
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> 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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>
> Dan Fink
>
> Adjunct Professor, Ecotech Institute
>
> IREC Certified Instructor™ for:
>
> ~ PV Installation Professional
>
> ~ Small Wind Installer
>
> Executive Director, Buckville Energy
>
> NABCEP Accredited Continuing Education Providers™
> 970.672.4342
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> President, SolarGnosis
>
> 1107 Fair Oaks Ave.
>
> Suite 351
>
> South Pasadena, CA 91030
>
> (323) 839-6108
>
> petertor at pobox.com
>
>
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