<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Mac,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was referring to the PLC between micros and gateway, not gateway and local router.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 25, 2022, at 11:08 PM, Mac Lewis via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" class="">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">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. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks!</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 1:29 PM Nick Soleil via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" class="">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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
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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
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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?<br class="">
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