Hi Adam, I have had good luck in the past setting up a wireless bridge. You will need an outlet at the array to power the radio there, but these things can work over long distances as long as there is line of sight. In the past, I have used the Engenius ENH202. They often would even make the wifi signal strong enough that the SMA inverter internal wifi could pick it up without a second radio at the array (and sometimes with the radio mounted inside the house). Unfortunately this product no longer exists. I have used some of the TP-link CPE210, but they are not nearly as strong as the Engenius one, and always need to get mounted outside.
I would also be curious to hear what models others have tried. Cheers, Dave On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:48 PM AE Solar <autonomousenerg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wrenchers, > We have a project on a large property, where the install site has no > internet (there is internet much further away on the property, and on a > different service) and cell reception is pretty bad. We attempted to use > SMA Cell Modem Kits (sunny boy inverters), but couldn't get a good enough > signal for them to work. The client was fine with having just a production > meter with no internet based monitoring. Now there is the possibility of > expanding the system quite a bit (also with Sunny Boy's), and I'd prefer to > figure out a way to monitor everything from offsite. Has anyone had > any success using a third party antenna with the SMA Cell Modem Kits? Or > have thoughts on other methods for setting up monitoring where we could, at > a minimum, see the combined output of all the inverters? Thanks for any > thoughts. > Adam > > Adam Katzman (he/him) > Autonomous Energies | Owner/Operator > www.AutonomousEnergies.com <http://www.autonomousenergies.com> > (518) 567-1468 > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the > other: > https://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/ > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > http://www.members.re-wrenches.org > > -- [image: Logo] <https://www.sungineersolar.com/> Dave Tedeyan, P.E. Owner | Sungineer Solar p: he | him | his a: 1653 Slaterville Rd. | Ithaca, NY 14850 w: www.sungineersolar.com <http://www.sungineersolar.com/> c: (607) 288-2898
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