Nice to hear that I wasn't the only one bothered by this change - my partners were getting tired of hearing me complain about the lesser functionality in some ways of Sunny Design.
I am getting used to sunny design and appreciate various aspects of the improvements, but it is slower to use, more clunky because as people have said making quick changes for "what-ifs" is not so quick, and it hides results behind numbers that are not well defined - particularly the high/low voltage numbers as affected by temperature. Steve, I am not opposed to change, but I am disappointed in this case that the change ended up loosing ease and information in certain important ways. Thanks for listening, Howie -- Howie Michaelson NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer™ Catamount Solar, LLC Renewable Energy Systems Sales and Service VT Solar Electric & Hot Water Incentive Partner http://www.CatamountSolar.com 802-272-0004 On Fri, December 2, 2011 2:50 pm, Jason Szumlanski wrote: > New Version = New Coke > > > > Cut your losses and bring back the web tool! > > > > Jason Szumlanski > > Fafco Solar > > > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott > McCalmont > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 2:18 PM > To: RE-wrenches > Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] SMA Sunny Design temperature/voltage > calculations > > > > I agree with Luke. I use a Mac with Parallels for the odd Windows-only > program. The last time I wanted to use the SMA string sizing tool I > ended up using another solution because I didn't want to deal with > starting up Windows. The future is the web, and there is really no > reason not to have the tool available online. > > > > On Dec 2, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Luke Christy wrote: > > > > > > I also echo the frustration with the removal of the online SMA design > tool. Setting aside the issues of how much quicker it was to check > different sizing options with the old web version, I'm also annoyed that > the new version is not available for Mac OS, which means I have to start > up my janky old PC laptop if I want to use the tool. > > > > Bring back the old version! > > > > Luke Christy > > > > > > > > > > Luke Christy > > > NABCEP Certified PV Installer(tm): Certification #031409-25 > (Luke Christy) > > NABCEP Certified Solar Thermal Installer(tm): Certification > #ST032611-03 > CoSEIA Certified PV Installer (Luke Christy) > > Solar Gain Services, LLC > Monte Vista, CO. > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Home Power magazine > > List Address: [email protected] > > Options & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Home Power magazine > > List Address: [email protected] > > Options & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
