Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-23 Thread David Katz
I used a Solar-Log with their wireless 485 solution to monitor a solar trailer about 500 feet away, through wall. It worked great. David Katz Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2013, at 10:30 AM, William Miller will...@millersolar.com wrote: Friends: Thanks for the responses to my question.

[RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread William Miller
Friends: Thanks for the responses to my question. Here is what I have learned: The main problem is that the Sunny Boy is remote from the house and there is no signal conduit. There are any number of monitors that can hard wire to the Sunny Boy, usually with an RS485 connection. Without a

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Jefferson
There is a company called Digi.com. they make a wireless bridge for the RS-485 protocol. Needs to be line of sight, but it will travel about 1000'. They are familiar with installers using their radios to communicate with our inverters, set up is pretty straight forward. I am looking for a part

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread William Miller
Steve, Ryan: I don't quite have line of sight. There is the brow of a hill... I will look to see if any of the wireless solutions will handle this scenario. Wm At 12:57 PM 2/22/2013, Steve Jefferson wrote: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Jefferson
-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of William Miller Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 1:35 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring Steve, Ryan: I don't quite have line of sight. There is the brow of a hill... I will look to see

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread toddcory
i have set up wireless bridges for ip to remote locations and my experience with this has me leaning towards no dice william. these links run in the 2.3 gHz and up range which is line-of-sight only. trees will even attenuate the signal, so total blockage with the earth looks grim. have a

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin Pegg
-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org]On Behalf Of William Miller Sent: February 22, 2013 10:20 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring Friends: Thanks for the responses to my question. Here is what I have learned