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HI Wrenches;<br>
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I need to make a correction to my previous post: I mistakenly called
their new Whizbang Jr, the Gizmo Jr. Sorry, sometimes my flying
fingers get ahead of my brain.<br>
See Bob Gudgel's off list message below. It also monitors battery
finish charge current like the Blue Sky Controllers, to more
accurately reach full state of charge.<br>
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CTO, Solarray, Inc
Nabcep Certified PV Installer,
Licensed Master Electrician
Solar Design Engineer
303 505-8760</pre>
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Hi Ray !<br>
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The Whizbang Junior works for ending amps, too, on the Classic
controller.<br>
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Just for folks' FYI.<br>
<br>
I kinda like your name, "Gizmo Jr."... Might have to use that
one some day for<br>
another product.<br>
<br>
boB<br>
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On 12/5/2013 5:30 PM, Ray Walters wrote:<br>
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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>
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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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am evaluating remote 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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looks like the only good 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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straightforward, but doesn’t have real-time
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stumbled upon the Connext 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
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