<div dir="ltr">Hi Kevin - We're using the Solar Shading app by Comoving Magnetics. It's $18. It's pretty accurate, once you learn how hold and tilt the phone. A tripod adaptor will fix that by keeping tilt accurate, I'm looking for something commercial to start with.<div>As for the Pathfinder tripod adaptor -- I'll take a photo of it when I get back to the office later this week, and i might just put together a couple samples made with thick plastic. The prototype is plywood.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Dan Fink</span><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Adjunct Professor, Ecotech Institute</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">IREC Certified Instructor\u2122 for: </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~ PV Installation Professional</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~ Small Wind Installer</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Executive Director, Buckville Energy</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">NABCEP Accredited Continuing Education Providers\u2122<br><a href="tel:970.672.4342" value="+19706724342" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">970.672.4342</a></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Kevin Pegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:KPegg@energyalternatives.ca" target="_blank">KPegg@energyalternatives.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">My circa 2000 pathfinder came with the (flimsy but lightweight) tripod option and it is needing some work to repair it, so wondering
about your real tripod adapter as well - that would make it a lot more robust. The number of times the clients Dog knocked over the pathfinder has beaten it up a bit more than I'd like.
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Successor to SunEye 210?<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm surprised someone hasn't leapt in to claim this market share. Not all of us are big-city no-battery PV installers who can use the new Google tool that estimates tree heights. My class experiments with this were a bust....it only sorta
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