Re: [RE-wrenches] Feedback on Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal

2009-01-19 Thread August Goers 
John -

 

The hardware is fairly easy to install but requires attention to detail. The
user interface is very customizable if you have techie clients. One thing to
note is that the online data is not live - it tends to lag by a few hours.
You can login directly on site to get live data however. Another plus is
that there aren't any yearly service charges.

 

Good luck! -August

 

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Wrenches,
   I am looking into using the Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal on some new
installations and possibly adding to some older ones.  What experiences have
you had with this system?  We are being asked by a large potential customer
for our experience with the data system we are quoting.  One of my employees
has taken an SMA Course and has some hands on with the system but we would
like some field input. We will have students and other folks watching as we
hook this up at one of our sites.

 

 

John Blittersdorf

Central Vermont Solar & Wind, LLC
104 River Street
Rutland, VT

802-770-8625

30 years living off-grid

 

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Re: [RE-wrenches] Feedback on Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal

2009-01-19 Thread Sky Sims 
We've used a couple. The public access feature is nice. Might require
someone with computer experience to set up the local network protocols
properly for internet access. 

 

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Wrenches,
   I am looking into using the Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal on some
new installations and possibly adding to some older ones.  What
experiences have you had with this system?  We are being asked by a
large potential customer for our experience with the data system we are
quoting.  One of my employees has taken an SMA Course and has some hands
on with the system but we would like some field input. We will have
students and other folks watching as we hook this up at one of our
sites.

 

 

John Blittersdorf

Central Vermont Solar & Wind, LLC
104 River Street
Rutland, VT

802-770-8625

30 years living off-grid

 



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Re: [RE-wrenches] Feedback on Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal

2009-01-19 Thread Carl Adams 
John,

If you have multiple inverters at the same site these can be daisy chained
together on the WebBox so that all report and are summarized on the same
portal page.  Wiring diagrams for this configuration are absent the SMA
documentation but the SMA support guys for this product are helpful and
knowledgeable.

I also like the Sunny SensorBox which provides Pyranometer, and module
temperature data.  It also supports an ambient temperature sensor and
anemometer.  If this is going into an educational setting it's nice to be
able to correlate the system output with the environmental data.

Cheers
Carl
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Re: [RE-wrenches] Feedback on Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Clearwater, Village Power Design 

Hi John,

We've installed several systems with the Webbox as the primary DAS. 
Works like a charm - customer's like them cause they can program 
their own website pages.  We like them cause they send us an email 
each night on system performance and monthly summaries (or whatever 
else you program).  You can make the pages public or private.


Go to http://www.sunnyportal.com

and click on "Publically available plants"

you can see ongoing data from a 30.2 KW system we did at the Food 
Bank of Western MA (zip 01038).  There's 512 US plants available and 
thousands worldwide.


Easy to install - just need a card - make up a cable  and plug into 
an ethernet line or dedicated modem.


Hope that helps - hope you are staying warm up there!

Best,

Jeff Clearwater
Village Power Design





Wrenches,
   I am looking into using the Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal on 
some new installations and possibly adding to some older ones.  What 
experiences have you had with this system?  We are being asked by a 
large potential customer for our experience with the data system we 
are quoting.  One of my employees has taken an SMA Course and has 
some hands on with the system but we would like some field input. We 
will have students and other folks watching as we hook this up at 
one of our sites.




John Blittersdorf

Central Vermont Solar & Wind, LLC
104 River Street
Rutland, VT

802-770-8625

30 years living off-grid



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Re: [RE-wrenches] Feedback on Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal

2009-01-19 Thread Glenn Burt 
Pretty straightforward hardware setup. Easy to install the piggy back board.
Data comm. Wiring is also easy if you pay attention to detail. 

 

The portal is a little 'foreign', but can be made to display good stuff.

 

You decide what graphs or pictures to display on pages you create, or use
their defaults (yuk). Haven't quite figured out how to go back in time with
the data without logging into the portal with credentials yet though.

 

I installed one for our local municipality. They have their own private LAN
and can see the web box directly, and all others can see it via a browser.

 

http://www.sunnyportal.com/Templates/PublicPageOverview.aspx?plant=eb64b842-
a776-4ed3-a9f2-f26d9c891d4b
<http://www.sunnyportal.com/Templates/PublicPageOverview.aspx?plant=eb64b842
-a776-4ed3-a9f2-f26d9c891d4b&splang=en-US> &splang=en-US

 

Regards,

 

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Wrenches,
   I am looking into using the Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal on some new
installations and possibly adding to some older ones.  What experiences have
you had with this system?  We are being asked by a large potential customer
for our experience with the data system we are quoting.  One of my employees
has taken an SMA Course and has some hands on with the system but we would
like some field input. We will have students and other folks watching as we
hook this up at one of our sites.

 

 

John Blittersdorf

Central Vermont Solar & Wind, LLC
104 River Street
Rutland, VT

802-770-8625

30 years living off-grid

 

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[RE-wrenches] Feedback on Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal

2009-01-19 Thread cvsolar 

 Wrenches,
?? I am looking into using the Sunny Web Box and Sunny Portal on some new 
installations and possibly adding to some older ones.? What experiences have 
you had with this system?? We are being asked by a large potential customer for 
our experience with the data system we are quoting.? One of my employees has 
taken an SMA Course and has some hands on with the system but we would like 
some field input. We will have students and other folks watching as we hook 
this up at one of our sites.


 


 

John Blittersdorf

Central Vermont Solar & Wind, LLC
104 River Street
Rutland, VT

802-770-8625

30 years living off-grid



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