Re: [RE-wrenches] Phased out Schneider Electric SCP

2023-04-04 Thread Chris Sparadeo via RE-wrenches
I don’t like the idea of a system being dependent on the functionality of the insight home/facility or the battery life of a smart device / AC output of the inverter to be able to change settings. As limited as the SCP is, I think it serves a very important function in system operation. I’m all for

Re: [RE-wrenches] Phased out Schneider Electric SCP

2023-04-04 Thread Michael Morningstar via RE-wrenches
Yah, What the heck? The XW Pro/Discover AES pairing makes up 2/3s of our installs. Right now I have a client who's Insight Home is glitching and drops out his smartphone connection. Without the SCP He'd be in the dark. I just purchased an SCP off of Ebay for 700.00 for a system we are building for

Re: [RE-wrenches] Phased out Schneider Electric SCP

2023-04-04 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via RE-wrenches
Thanks Glen ! I will ask him on Thursday at a webinar. Register here: https://solar.se.com/us/en/event/webinar-backup-control-switch-launch/ Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar "we go where powerlines don't" http://members.sti.net/offgridsolar/ e-mail offgridso...@sti.net text 209 813 0060 On 2023-

Re: [RE-wrenches] Phased out Schneider Electric SCP

2023-04-04 Thread Chris Schaefer via RE-wrenches
akin to outback and their FM100 charger controller with no display. I use the Midnite classic 200 instead. Christopher On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 11:34 AM Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via RE-wrenches wrote: > Thanks Glen ! I will ask him on Thursday at a webinar. > > > Register here: > > https://so

Re: [RE-wrenches] Phased out Schneider Electric SCP

2023-04-04 Thread William Miller via RE-wrenches
Chris: Respectfully: it’s not the same thing. Outback is not discontinuing the Mate. If you have an Outback inverter you need a Mate and the Mate accesses the FM100. Sure it would be better if the FM100 had a display, but there is a viable option in the Mate. William On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:

Re: [RE-wrenches] Phased out Schneider Electric SCP

2023-04-04 Thread Glenn Burt via RE-wrenches
The setup I described is dedicated to the system only, only requires a login once and it on all the time.-GlennSent from my 'smart'phone, so please excuse typos and spelling errors.-- Original message--From: Michael Morningstar via RE-wrenchesDate: Tue, Apr 4, 2023 11:31 AMTo: RE-wrenche

Re: [RE-wrenches] Phased out Schneider Electric SCP

2023-04-04 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via RE-wrenches
Saying this again, you all should tell Schneider this. BTW, a tablet can wifi station mode connect to a non internet installed "conext home" with a saved password. It also can be set-up as a "user" and no password is required. Neither of these require wifi at the home. It is all in the 3 ways

Re: [RE-wrenches] replace part of rolls battery bank

2023-04-04 Thread Daniel Young via RE-wrenches
Thanks all for the advice. I figured it was not worth trying on a different battery brand. I honestly needed to be able to tell them I researched it and asked my peers. The client really uses the 3 x strings they have and did not really want to go down to 3. They are currently choosing to get t

Re: [RE-wrenches] Phased out Schneider Electric SCP

2023-04-04 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via RE-wrenches
This just went up on the Schneider website thanks to Eric Bentsen. A complete guide on how to do this with a Samsung tablet https://solar.se.com/us/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/02/Tablet-Setup-for-InsightLocal-e-Guide.pdf It is under the Insight down loads at the bottom of page. Dave Ang

Re: [RE-wrenches] replace part of rolls battery bank

2023-04-04 Thread Ray Walters via RE-wrenches
So the 24 batteries are actually 72 individual cells that are trying to charge equally, with essentially no BMS.  Its not just max strings, but max # of cells, and that's double my maximum. You mentioned they use it pretty hard, so that's the other big part of how long L16s will last.  If the

Re: [RE-wrenches] replace part of rolls battery bank

2023-04-04 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar via RE-wrenches
Hurts my head ! Agree that you will have more trips to this house after the next one. This is most likely not going to get you 2 more years. All of the wiring is good, clean, and tight? Who really knows how long it could last? Probably fine thru summer and fall. Much better with the next L

Re: [RE-wrenches] replace part of rolls battery bank

2023-04-04 Thread Ray Walters via RE-wrenches
I highly recommend _against_ the 2v L16s.  You are not going to a better battery, or fewer cells; just the cells are wired internally, making it very difficult to assess each cell independently.  I trouble shot a system of Trojan 2 v L16s, that was only 2 years old, but was trying to run a larg