Matt:
1. You will need to contact Tech Support with at least the last 4 digits of MAC address to allow the new Mate3 in Optics. Plan accordingly to do this during tech support hours when you may have to hold for a while. 2. One school of thought is to store programming parameters in the old Mate3 and restore them in the new Mate3. 3. The other school of thought is to re-enter all programming parameters by hand to avoid importing any corrupted data. I subscribe to the latter and I have an Excel programming chart I use. I could share this if you request off-line. 4. Consider in advance your auto-reboot, data format options and installer password and identifying information and be prepared to enter these parameters. These are also Mate3-centric options. 5. Be careful to not swap the hub and internet leads. I have seen the internet port fail on Mate3s. 6. Your new Mate3S may not have shipped with current firmware. Bring current firmware just in case. Good luck, William Miller PS: The “S” may be an unfortunate suffix. Makes it hard to differentiate between the new Mate3S and plural Mate3s. Wm Lic 773985 millersolar.com 805-438-5600 -----Original Message----- From: RE-wrenches [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Sirum Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:12 AM To: re-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] OutBack Power MATE3 to MATE3S Upgrade Greetings All, I'm preparing to replace an existing OutBack Power MATE3 System Display/Controller with the new MATE3S. The system is a grid tied 5 stack of Radian GS8048A Inverter/Chargers. I am interested to know if any of you may have done this and if you encountered any issues or have any insights to pass along. This system does have a generator and uses the Advanced Generator Start (AGS) function to control generator start/stop and battery charging while the generator is running. I believe this is the only Display/Controller based function the system is using, so it will likely need to be programed and setup in the new MATE3S. I am hopeful that all other programing is stored in the Radians and will not need to be reprogramed/entered to the new MATE3S. The system is connected to OpticsRE (OutBack Power's system monitoring website/service). I assume we may need to do some programing from the new MATE3S and/or from the system's OpticsRE site to enable communication since the new MATE3S may have a different IP address, MAC Address, and etc than the MATE3 we are removing. We are hopeful the new MATE3S will allow the system to function better with its OpticsRE site and not need to be reset every couple months. Please let me know if you have any experience or thoughts to offer. Have any of you installed and setup the new MATE3S? Any Issues, insights, or comparisons to the MATE3 to report? Thank you! Best regards, ----MATT Matthew Sirum P.O. Box 1227 Greenfield, MA 01302-1227 USA phone: +1.413.773.0611 email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: [email protected] Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
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