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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">First, Outback does have a solution:
the Flexnet and Mate 3 stuff; Outback's stuff is pricey though.
They're also a mess to wire IMHO. <br>
Here's 2 others to consider: Pentametric from Bogart Engineering,
and Midnite Solar.<br>
Midnite Solar's monitoring is free when you buy their
controllers. They already come with an Ethernet port too. (unlike
Outback's)<br>
ALso, Midnite has the new Gizmo Jr. which is a single wire shunt
monitor connection, and they should have full State of Charge
monitoring capability soon for it on their monitoring website:
mymidnite.com (also free).<br>
<br>
The Pentametric is my long time go to meter, and it has a full
Ethernet setup, but they don't have a website like Mymidnite.com,
so you have to access the Pentametric remotely through the local
network. That gets into static DNS addresses, etc.; all that IP
stuff I'm not well versed at.<br>
I've successfully used both monitoring systems.<br>
Also, don't just look at daily production; for off grid, you need
battery state of charge. <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">R.Ray Walters
CTO, Solarray, Inc
Nabcep Certified PV Installer,
Licensed Master Electrician
Solar Design Engineer
303 505-8760</pre>
On 12/5/2013 2:03 PM, Davis Terrell wrote:<br>
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monitoring solutions for an off-grid
project and wanted to get any feedback people were
willing to share. I
see my three main choices as Outback, SMA Sunny
Island, or an XW system, the
first two of which I have a good bit of experience
with. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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remote options for Outback are 3<sup>rd</sup>
party which I couldn’t get much info on, despite
emails to the
manufacturers. Anyone have any experience with
GreenHouse Gas and
Electric dataloggers?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Sunny Portal seems the most straightforward, but
doesn’t have real-time
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Combox on the Schneider site and
it looks like a great product, but I am a little
wary. What comments I
did find out about it online weren’t very
favorable. And it looks
like setting it up for remote access is not very
straightforward.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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