[RE-wrenches] Enphase Max Distance

[Mac Lewis]

I don't know your specific circumstance but the cellular modem option works
really well for monitoring only. There are also many point to point
networking systems that are solid and fairly easy to set up if you can do
line of sight.

Thanks!



On Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 1:29 PM Nick Soleil via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> HI Rick,
>
> The distance that our power line communications (PLC) signals travel will
> be impacted by the electrical noise on the site and the impedance of the
> wiring.  I don't think we have published a max distance in any of our
> recent tech briefs or planning guides.  That said, in some of our
> commercial design guides we had previously recommended up to 250 ft in a
> non-filtered environment and up to 600 ft when the IQ Gateway and
> microinverters are located on the load side of a power line filter or an
> isolation transformer (for example, on a dedicated 480V primary to 120/208V
> secondary transformer).
>
> Keep in mind that when the PLC signals are used for controlling the
> microinverters, such as sites that have power export limiting (PEL)
> profiles or when the microinverters are paired with IQ Storage systems, the
> communications must be more reliable than when used for monitoring alone.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Nick Soleil
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> Wrenches,
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> What is the furthest that anyone has placed their IQ-based system from the
> gateway? Enphase recommends up to 250’. We’ve done ~350’ without issue.
> Anyone gone further?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> rick brown
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