[RE-wrenches] Outback OpticsRE+Starlink redux

Sat Feb 22 09:10:15 PST 2025

Dana,

This is appreciated information. Right now, I have a Wi-Fi extender connected to
a Starlink because the Sol-Ark would not connect to Starlink. So I have the
Sol-Ark going through the extender's 2.4Ghz network. I would like to eliminate
the Wi-Fi extender because it's just one more thing to go wrong, and I have to
have it on a UPS (I put all required network gear on UPSs so if the inverter
shuts down I can still "see" it remotely until the UPS dies and gather any fault
codes that might be present).

Jason Szumlanski
Principal Solar Designer | Florida Solar Design Group
NABCEP Certified Solar Professional (PVIP)
Florida State Certified Solar Contractor CVC56956
Florida Certified Electrical Contractor EC13013208

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM Dana Orzel via RE-wrenches
<re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> Parallel comment:
> Starlink & Solark - Starlink comes setup as 5G : to run Solark on Starlink you
> need to split it to 2.3/2.5 G in the settings section. Would this Help Optics?
> 
> 
> Dana Orzel - dana at solarwork.com [dana at solarwork.com] - 208.721.7003
> 
> 
> 
> > On Feb 22, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Dan Fink via RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-
> > wrenches.org [re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Esteemed Wrenches - can anyone provide me with recent updates as to how
> > Starlink is working with outback OpticsRE currently? I tried it on a
> > nightmare offgrid system last year, it didn't work, I called Outback tech
> > support, they said it was an issue, and they were working on Mate3S firmware
> > updates, and then they were sold to the EG4 folks who are non-responive.
> > 
> > 
> > I have a remote nightmare system that I thought I finally fixed over a year
> > ago. The internet connection is DSL (yepper, the 1990s are calling and want
> > to laugh at me) and I fixed the problem for about a year by keeping just
> > OpticsRE and the Resol solar thermal on the old DSL, and moving all mobile
> > device traffic to Starlink.This a southern Colorado "Santa Fe" style estate
> > with rebar-embedded concrete walls that block all wifi. All Outback Optics
> > is hardwired LAN, with a fiber optic LAN system installed just for Outback
> > because the over 50 foot distance didnt work.
> > 
> > 
> > Now it is misbehaving again, on the DSL. Stays connected for 4-6 hours, then
> > drops. Homeowner trained the housekeeper to reboot the Mate3S, works for 4-6
> > hours then drops, she only goes there once a week or 2. Can I try again to
> > connect the Mate3S hardwired to Starlink, or will it be once again a futile
> > waste of my billing hours as was last time?
> > 
> > 
> > I'm just happy the homeowner is a very nice guy and OK with paying my bill
> > for so many site visits, even when those visits don't fix the problem.
> > That's a rare situation, many other clients would be suing me.  
> > 
> > 
> > But when I started in this business in 1994, there were no solar monitoring
> > LANs and only horribly slow satellite links that wouldn't do data. I would
> > never have known what that even meant. Now, seems like I am doing more LAN
> > networking work than PV volts amps watts. And this is FLA batteries, not
> > LiFePO4 and no BMS. 
> > 
> > 
> > What a strange new world we live in. 
> >  
> > Owner, Buckville Energy Consulting LLC
> > IREC Certified Instructor for PV and Small Wind Installation
> > NABCEP Certified PV System Inspector
> > NABCEP PV Associate
> > d [dan.fink at greendustrialtraining.com]anbob88 at gmail.com [anbob88 at gmail.com]
> > 970-672-4342
> > 
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