[RE-wrenches] Monitoring large PV systems

Sun Apr 11 01:58:32 EDT 2021

AlsoEnergy bought a company called Locus Energy, Locus NOC, and bought a company called Deck Monitoring.  All good platforms. I have worked with both of those and they work well for commercial revenue grade monitoring and weather reporting equipment integration. Also Energy also bought Draker Labs.
What device are you going to work with, or planning to work with William ?

I have info on LGate products.

Thomas Hall
Solar Specialty Group
Www.solarspecialtygroup.com
Thomashall at solarspecialtygroup.com
808-854-9539
NABCEP PV Installation Professional

On Apr 10, 2021, at 7:02 PM, Jerry Shafer <jerrysgarage01 at gmail.com> wrote:

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Yes, fat spaniel was an early adaptor with lots of hardware
Jerry

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 7:42 PM Mark Frye <markf at berkeleysolar.com<mailto:markf at berkeleysolar.com>> wrote:

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.

Origins.

On 4/10/2021 2:52 PM, Jerry Shafer wrote:
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I have used many of the monitoring platforms, many of which are either out or bought out and consolidated. Anybody remember "Fat Spaniel" 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.
Jerry
NABCEP PV inspector

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 1:38 PM William Miller <william at millersolar.com<mailto:william at millersolar.com>> wrote:
Friends:

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.

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.

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?

Thanks in advance!

William Miller

Miller Solar
17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422
805-438-5600
www.millersolar.com<http://www.millersolar.com/>
CA Lic. 773985

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