<div dir="auto">Wrenches<div dir="auto">Yes, fat spaniel was an early adaptor with lots of hardware</div><div dir="auto">Jerry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 7:42 PM Mark Frye &lt;<a href="mailto:markf@berkeleysolar.com">markf@berkeleysolar.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>I do remember Fat Spaniel. I remember the day they came to our
      office to show us their product. It was an enclosure full of power
      strips, wall warts and wires going everywhere.</p>
    <p>Origins.<br>
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    <div>On 4/10/2021 2:52 PM, Jerry Shafer
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Wrenches
        <div dir="auto">I have used many of the monitoring platforms,
          many of which are either out or bought out and consolidated.
          Anybody remember &quot;Fat Spaniel&quot; they were one of the first. We
          had sites with full motion cameras to string level monitoring.
          Now if its up to me I go simple with eguage, they have whats
          needed and have a better chance of being around in a few
          years.</div>
        <div dir="auto">Jerry </div>
        <div dir="auto">NABCEP PV inspector</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 1:38 PM
          William Miller &lt;<a href="mailto:william@millersolar.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">william@millersolar.com</a>&gt;
          wrote:<br>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Friends:</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">We
                  are starting to work on larger grid-tied systems
                  (500kW) and I am trying to school myself on some of
                  the aspects.  Monitoring is the subject at hand.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">One
                  such system uses AlsoEnergy hardware on the PowerTrack
                  online platform.  There is also a VistaWatt service
                  that is involved that looks like it is simply an
                  analytics service.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Have
                  I correctly categorized the above entities?  Does
                  anyone have experience with any of the above that
                  might offer some insight as to the pros and cons of
                  these services?  Anyone have any documentation on the
                  hardware?</span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Thanks
                  in advance!</span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">William
                  Miller</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Miller
                  Solar</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">17395
                  Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">805-438-5600</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="http://www.millersolar.com/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.millersolar.com</a></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">CA
                  Lic. 773985</span></p>
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