Re: [RE-wrenches] Magnum Energy Remote Control

[Allan Sindelar]

Jeff, Kent's and Maverick's advice is right on. I would challenge your approach of excluding the remote. The Magnum remote is much easier to use (and thus harder to mess up) than Outback's traditional Mate, and can function adequately as a whole system monitor, in place of the third-party TriMetric. And customers are likely to learn quickly if their fooling around costs them a non-warranty service call, or worse, a new set of batteries. Allan Allan Sindelar al...@positiveenergysolar.com NABCEP Certified Photovoltaic Installer NABCEP Certified Technical Sales Professional New Mexico EE98J Journeyman Electrician Founder and Chief Technology Officer Positive Energy, Inc. 3209 Richards Lane (note new address) Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507 505 424-1112 www.positiveenergysolar.com On 6/28/2012 8:38 AM, Kent Osterberg wrote: Jeff, I don't know if this is true for all of the Magnum inverters, but I suspect it is: From the MS-PAE manual: "The settings once programmed are saved in the remote’s nonvolatile memory and are preserved until changed - even if DC power to the inverter is lost (as long as the ME-RC remote is connected)." So, if the default settings aren't adequate, your customer's will need a remote. They need it to equalize the batteries anyway. And since every battery system should have a battery monitor, there may as well be a remote for the purpose of using the Magnum BMK. Kent Osterberg Blue Mountain Solar, Inc. www.bluemountainsolar.com t: 541-568-4882 On 6/28/2012 7:08 AM, Jeff Yago wrote: We recently started stocking the Magnum Energy inverters and when we had a few installations requiring some adjustments to the default settings we were advised to order the Magnum Energy Remote Control.  However, we then found out that this is a stripped down control and we needed to order the “Advanced” version of this control.   Our plan was to keep this in the assembly area and use anytime we have a Magnum inverter that needs modification of the setpoints.  However, after ordering all these different models and controls it appears some or all of these setpoints in the inverter go back to default if we un-plug the remote control.  Is this correct??      We have many projects that either the client does not want the remote control, will not pay the extra cost for the remote control, or we do not want them attempting to change these settings.  Is there a way to use the remote to make these changes and then ship out the inverter with the modifications without the needing to include the remote control.   Thanks,   Jeff Yago     _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org 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: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org 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: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org

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