Hi Kevin - We're using the Solar Shading app by Comoving Magnetics. It's $18. It's pretty accurate, once you learn how hold and tilt the phone. A tripod adaptor will fix that by keeping tilt accurate, I'm looking for something commercial to start with. As for the Pathfinder tripod adaptor -- I'll take a photo of it when I get back to the office later this week, and i might just put together a couple samples made with thick plastic. The prototype is plywood.
Dan Fink Adjunct Professor, Ecotech Institute IREC Certified Instructor™ for: ~ PV Installation Professional ~ Small Wind Installer Executive Director, Buckville Energy NABCEP Accredited Continuing Education Providers™ 970.672.4342 On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Kevin Pegg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > > Curious which Android app you are using. > > > > My circa 2000 pathfinder came with the (flimsy but lightweight) tripod > option and it is needing some work to repair it, so wondering about your > real tripod adapter as well - that would make it a lot more robust. The > number of times the clients Dog knocked over the pathfinder has beaten it > up a bit more than I'd like. > > > > Kevin > > > > *From:* RE-wrenches [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Dan Fink > *Sent:* March-07-16 11:56 AM > *To:* RE-wrenches <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] Successor to SunEye 210? > > > > Hi Peter; > > My understanding is that the only thing left of Solmetric at Vivint is the > PV Analyzer, and though they stated a year ago that they were going to > "streamline" the PV sales process so that the site survey could be > accomplished on the same day as the sale, I've seen nothing else from them. > > Very happy that I've kept the heavily-modded Solar Pathfinder that I > bought in 1994, with a real tripod adaptor. > > For quicky site surveys and semi-interested customers, I use an Android > smartphone app, which is pretty accurate IF you build a tripod adaptor for > the phone. > > I'm surprised someone hasn't leapt in to claim this market share. Not all > of us are big-city no-battery PV installers who can use the new Google tool > that estimates tree heights. My class experiments with this were a > bust....it only sorta kinda works. > > Ground truth is the only thing I trust. Maybe I should just start building > and marketing my Pathfinder and smartphone tripod adaptors. > > > > > Dan Fink > > Adjunct Professor, Ecotech Institute > > IREC Certified Instructor™ for: > > ~ PV Installation Professional > > ~ Small Wind Installer > > Executive Director, Buckville Energy > > NABCEP Accredited Continuing Education Providers™ > 970.672.4342 > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Peter Parrish < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Can’t seem to find a SunEye product on the Solmetric website. Is it tucked > away on the Vivent site or somewhere else hard-to-find? > > > > Peter T. Parrish, Ph.D. > > President, SolarGnosis > > 1107 Fair Oaks Ave. > > Suite 351 > > South Pasadena, CA 91030 > > (323) 839-6108 > > [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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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