March 12, 201610 yr So, what is everyone using on a 24/7 basis to monitor their inverters and upload stats to the internet? I only have a bunch of old PC's laying around which consume 300W+ power (I checked on the axpert!) and my laptop is in use, on the road, most of the day so it doesn't help much.
March 12, 201610 yr An ordinary PC but as you have gathered I am not looking to be frugal with consumption. It is a issue at night but hardly. Total overnight draw once we have gone to bed is between 250W and 400W if the deep freeze and fridges come on at the same time, but a base draw of 250W which is not a crisis in my books.
March 12, 201610 yr I run a NUC 24/7 365. Uses 8w of power and does all my online and autimation stuff
March 12, 201610 yr 1 hour ago, Chris Hobson said: An ordinary PC but as you have gathered I am not looking to be frugal with consumption. It is a issue at night but hardly. Total overnight draw once we have gone to bed is between 250W and 400W if the deep freeze and fridges come on at the same time, but a base draw of 250W which is not a crisis in my books. My house also runs about 300W at night, without an extra PC running and I don't really want to add 300W to the existing load. I would like to run a Raspberry Pi but since there's no rPi software for the Axpert yet, this will have to wait.
March 12, 201610 yr 1 hour ago, SilverNodashi said: I would like to run a Raspberry Pi but since there's no rPi software for the Axpert yet, this will have to wait. The Rpi project here on PowerForum is a open source collaboration, for the forums benefit. Myself, Plonkster and SolarMon are keen supports, so it will take care of Victron, Monringstar AND Voltronics in the end. So jump in and help to keep it open source collaboration, therefor free.
March 13, 201610 yr I'm bogged down with lack of sleep (kids!) and had guests over the weekend. In addition, internet outages both at home and at work since Friday. Hasn't been a good weekend for making software. In addition, I'm way overthinking this csv export module, because it needs to do sliding windows with average, min, max calculations to be useful. That bit is implemented... so we're getting there. I'm very happy with the latest Rpi image. I have the firewall, networking issues solved at last, so I think that's ready for letting it out in the wild and allowing others to develop on it. I'm hoping that someone is going to write an axpert module for it. Edit: When I say I'm happy with the latest image, I mean the one that is unreleased sitting on the Rpi in my garage!
March 13, 201610 yr On 2016/03/09 at 1:06 PM, The Terrible Triplett said: ... maar nog nie 'n Pi nie. Ek het 'n spaar model B+ (nie die Pi 2 nie). As jy belang stel...
March 13, 201610 yr Feel for you with the kids and sleep thing. 3 total this side of which 2 are twins this side.... Need I say more? Sent from my SM-N900 using Tapatalk
March 13, 201610 yr 10 minutes ago, plonkster said: Ek het 'n spaar model B+ (nie die Pi 2 nie). As jy belang stel... Ja ek doen. Cost?
March 13, 201610 yr 33 minutes ago, The Terrible Triplett said: Ja ek doen. Cost? Het hom verniet gekry. Ou werk-stuff wat uitgegooi is. So al wat dit jou gaan kos is 'n trip hierdie kant toe, SD-kaart, en jou toekomstige betrokkenheid :-)
March 13, 201610 yr Deal! Toekomstige betrokkenheid, man, ek het ding hier begin so om NOU uit te trek ... Kan ek cheecky wees en vra dat hy dalk die software opkry wat jy develop vir Victron, as dit reg vir release is? Dan kan ek dit begin toets. Want ek vermoed 'n Pi2B of selfs die 3b gaan overkill wees, NET vir data lees.
March 13, 201610 yr 25 minutes ago, The Terrible Triplett said: Kan ek cheecky wees en vra dat hy dalk die software opkry wat jy develop vir Victron, as dit reg vir release is? Ek is besig om 'n image voor te berei.
March 13, 201610 yr I just saw this accidentally, on the charge controller, what 1 of the 200w panels are doing this today. I am floored.
March 13, 201610 yr I'm getting little cloud-edge spikes today. My 900W array has been doing this this morning, see attached screen shot (this is what Blue Lantern looks like at the moment... hacked together just enough to make it visual). Note the PV gauge doing over 900 watt.
March 13, 201610 yr Cloud edge effect in the Karoo too today 3000w topped at 3105w. First time I noticed over 100% production. I always was under the impression that the 17m run between the combiner box and the inverter caused losses which prevented >3000W production. I was mistaken. One good thing about >100% production it tells you your wiring losses are minimal.
April 11, 201610 yr Author We have just hit the 45kw team PV capacity... 12 members so far. Thanks for joining all!
April 11, 201610 yr So my system made 2.2 Mega watt in 133 days. Shweet. If it was a infini I would have had almost double that.
April 12, 201610 yr Are you going to feed back to the grid, else I don't see how you going to get more
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