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" wrote: > Friends: > > Thanks for the responses to my question. Here is what I hav

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread Dan Fink
I'm a beginner on wireless networks and RS485. But I can say that once you get it on wireless LAN, it's cheap and easy for even a novice to do amazing things. We have a Ubiquiti nano-bridge M2 set up just for internet to our remote "dorm" cabin for students when we do workshops. The line of sight

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread John Berdner
, 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 if any of the wireless solutions will handle this scenario. Wm At 12:57 PM 2/22/2013,

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin Pegg
Hi William, I have successfully used this product below on a few installs without line of sight, trees, hills, etc in the way approx 1 km span doing exactly what you are asking for - wireless RS485. It costs more than WiFi bridges, but it also works! http://www.bb-elec.com/Products/Wireless-

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 g

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote Sunny boy Monitoring

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Jefferson
.@lists.re-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 wi

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; boundary="_000_41FE25

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