[RE-wrenches] FW: Solmetric News - SunEye Discontinued

[Glenn Burt]

I recently had the pleasure of identifying the internal battery for an aging SunEye-100N that only held a charge for a couple of hours before needing complete resetting.

It was not difficult to extricate and open the iPaq and identify the battery model, I then found a couple of sources on the internet that carried replacements, so they can be revived!

 

-Glenn

 

From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Dan Fink
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 6:42 PM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] FW: Solmetric News - SunEye Discontinued

 

Hi Eric; There was a recent thread here about that, I can't seem to find it. But the consensus was that the "replacement" is the digital Google SunRoof Project, using overhead imaging for X-Y axis data combined with Streetview for Z axis data to estimate obstruction heights, and it only works in a limited number of urban areas, leaving us remote off-grid installers with just the old Pathfinder and SunEyes with shot batteries (I have one of the old ones that has the iPaq PDA attached to the unit and bluetooth GPS, if anyone remembers those).

 

Week after next I will be tasking my college PV installer class with comparing data from the Pathfinder, old Suneye and the Solar Shading app from Comoving Magnetics on an Android phone with a panning tripod adaptor. Their class assignment will be to crunch their data and compare accuracy. We'll make it all available online.

 

Best regards;




Dan Fink

Adjunct Professor of Solar Energy Technology, Ecotech Institute

IREC Certified Instructor™ for: 

~ PV Installation Professional

~ Small Wind Installer

Executive Director, Buckville Energy

NABCEP Registered Continuing Education Providers™
 <tel:970.672.4342> 970.672.4342


 

 

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:58 AM, <eric at harvesthesun.com> wrote:

Picking up this issue after some time has passed...

 

Has anyone found, or received any news on, a replacement for the Solmetric SunEye other than Pathfinder?

 

Eric Stikes

Founding Director & CEO

Good Sun Solar, A CA non-profit corp.

www.goodsun.life

(530)798-3738 <tel:%28530%29798-3738> 

 

 

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