On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 08:54:28 PM Vic K2VCO wrote: > I am looking at a solar power system that uses multiple "mini-inverters", > Enphase Energy M215-60-2LL-S2x. They use a data-over-powerline type of > system to transmit information to/from the inverters and a central device. > > Does anyone have any experience with this kind of system re RFI? Does > anyone know what frequencies are used by the powerline communications > thingy?
I have had a solar power system using enphase mini-inverters for a little over a year. I haven't been terrribly active in radio over that time but did investigate the noise issue. I was concerned both about the inverters themselves and the powerline modem. I tuned my K2 to 10 meters on a day when it was very quiet and could not hear a difference between having the solar array active or not. I have never noticed any noise I could attribute to the system. My 'shack' is on the second floor directly under the solar aray. As they say, your mileage may vary, but don't think it's a serious issue. I don't know much about the Enphase communication between the inverters and the Envoy interface. They aren't very sharing of technical information. Since I did the noise test I had a problem with the reliability of the power line modem (unrelated to the test) and have gone to a wireles connection from the Enphase interface box (Envoy) to my local network, but that wouldn't effect the communication between the inverters and the interface. Bernie W1AZ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
