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<p>A cheap PC laptop has become essential gear for anyone working on
any of the Chinese made batteries or inverters. I've needed it
for Fortress, Homegrid, Schneider, and the Midnite AIO, so far. </p>
<p>Tip from Midnite: get a little inverter that will run on your
power tool batteries, in case the laptop battery gets tired off
grid. <br>
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<p>Ray Walters<br>
Remote Solar<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/28/2025 3:05 PM, Jason Szumlanski
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work, at least for HomeGrid. I spent $99 on a
Parallels license to try it. There are no drivers that
work that I have found, and HomeGrid is no help on that
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<div><span class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I was able
to get this kludge to work for EG4, but it was pretty
frustrating.</span></div>
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<div><span
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Solar Designer | Florida Solar Design Group</span><br
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State Certified Solar Contractor CVC56956</span></div>
<div><font color="#333333"
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<div>I'm also a Mac user. Have you considered setting up a
Windows virtual machine on your mac for the rare
instances when you need to run a Windows application?</div>
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<div>Corey Shalanski</div>
<div>Jah Light Solar</div>
<div>Portland, Jamaica</div>
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at 11:06 AM Jason Szumlanski <<a
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target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div><span class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My
first AIO/PowerFlo16 is coming up, and it's a
triple inverter installation. I can't wait!</span><br
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">But
I thought the Firmware update process was much
easier – all available to do remotely. Is that
not the case? I assume it requires a Windows
laptop like EG4, HomeGrid, etc. That's
something else I don't want to carry in my
truck. I'm a Mac user.</span></div>
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Jason Szumlanski
<div><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Principal
Solar Designer | Florida Solar Design
Group</span><br
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">NABCEP
Certified Solar Professional (PVIP)</span><br
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Florida
State Certified Solar Contractor
CVC56956</span></div>
<div><font color="#333333"
face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Florida
Certified Electrical Contractor
EC13013208</font></div>
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2025 at 10:15 AM Tyrone Houck via RE-wrenches
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<div>In my experience the communication
between battery/inverter has been seamless,
the internet connectivity has also been very
reliable. You can program settings and
monitor remotely. No email notifications. I
have only installed the AIO and haven't used
the Rosie, Hawkes Bay, or Barcelona..my
favorite inverter/battery combo by far is
the AIO/Powerflo16. Installer monitoring
platform works consistently though it would
be great if they came up with a more mobile
friendly platform for the installer. The
user app is good and could probably be
improved but I don't have any overt
complaints. It's important to update
inverter firmware immediately upon
installation.. but the firmware installation
program is super easy to use(you need a
special cable assembly and a laptop). So far
we have 7 separate sites in the field and
all are working very well. Soon we will be
installing our first multi inverter parallel
system with the AIO and are looking forward
to it.</div>
<div dir="auto">Overall, I'm a fan. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Tyrone Houck</div>
<div dir="auto">Oregon Solarworks LLC</div>
<div dir="auto">CCB #204937 LRT #076</div>
<div dir="auto">541-787-1366</div>
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