Hi all
I am looking at getting a 2kW system installed and would like to monitor the production and feed in amounts. Ideally even the net feedin as in NSW this will be the money back...

With my research it seems that the SMA inverters have the best monitoring options but likely you need to stick to their add-on items.
Anyone experience with the sunny webbox or sunnyboy?

Any alternatives of good inverters that can be monitored ?

pls share your monitoring experience here.

cheers

I use a SMA 1100, with an RS 232. Have the software from SMA running on a box that exports to a database.

That then creates some graphs for my weather site.
http://www.lyndhurst-hill.info/solar/Index2.php

YOu can use the SMA software to upload to the SMA webpage, if not using a sunnyboy you can use the email option to send the data.

H.

Hey Henk, Nice graphs.
I was looking at your 1KW output, your only getting around 600watts max. That seems abit low don't you think.
Normally you should see 800-900watts or so...

BTW for monitoring output, the webbox is really good, however, i think its overboard for a 1KW system.

Hi,

Many people in Europe use the “Solar-Log” from “Solare Datensysteme GmbH”
http://solar-log.weber-ebusiness.de/home.html

It’s a real time web data logger. Updated every 5 minutes. You can use him with a lot of inverters:
SMA, Sunways, Diehl AKO, Refu, Sunville, SolarMax, Kostal, PowerOne, Mitsubishi, Soutronic, Kaco, Fronius, Danfoss, Mastervolt, Schüco, SIAC, Riello, Conergy, Converteam, AEG and Ingeteam.
You can put the free software on your own webpage also in the English language.

My PV-installation:
http://home.scarlet.be/francis/
(Sorry, only in the Dutch language)

I use two SMA-inverters SB1100 with each a “PiggyBack” RS485 communication module. You can use the email option to send “error messages” from the inverter to your email address.
I use the “capacity guarding” between the two PV-strings to locate a fault in one of the two strings.

Best regards from Belgium

Francis

Hey Francis,
Great find Thank-you very much.

Francis wrote:Hi,

Many people in Europe use the “Solar-Log” from “Solare Datensysteme GmbH”
http://solar-log.weber-ebusiness.de/home.html

That site doesn't appear to exist anymore, has anybody got a new URL for it ?

Thanks.

Hi,

The new URL: http://www.solar-log.com/

Francis

Francis wrote:
The new URL: http://www.solar-log.com/

Thanks for that.