enphase monitoring

[blacnight]

Tying into grid

Mike, you mean to tell me that all these sites on building your own solar panels really only work if you are not tying into the grid but using a battery bank.(legally) Does that mean I would have to get my electrians license,get UL approved to build my own panels and then grid tie. Also how did you get so knowledgeable and how long have you been doing this. I'm not questioning your knowledge merely interested in how I can become more knowledgeable in this field.

[Mike90250]

Mike was wondering about building my own panels using the enphase micro inverter. Also in a couple of your post you mention water vapor. I am new to this but it looks like if I do the work with buying an enphase inverter I can make a complete panel grid tied for about $400.00. Does this seem right to you? I am not interested in batteries I just want to produce as much electric as possible. Sorry about where I placed this post as I am new to this whole thing . Delete if necessary.

Legally, you cannot use home built (non-UL approved) panels in/on any insured structure. And, as strange as it sounds, you can't feed non-UL electricity from your own panels, into a micro-inverter, and then legally, feed it into the grid. But hey, I'm not a lawyer.
Grid Tied is about 95% of harvest, into usable power, add batteries and it drops to about 50%.

[blacnight]

Mike was wondering about building my own panels using the enphase micro inverter. Also in a couple of your post you mention water vapor. I am new to this but it looks like if I do the work with buying an enphase inverter I can make a complete panel grid tied for about $400.00. Does this seem right to you? I am not interested in batteries I just want to produce as much electric as possible. Sorry about where I placed this post as I am new to this whole thing . Delete if necessary.

[Mike90250]

The vendor/installer is supposed to be able to set that up, if you paid for the package, they are supposed to deliver. Pressure them.

[silverhorsefarm]

I am getting the monitoring as part of my contract.

[Mike90250]

Also, with Enphase, the data is encrypted, and you pay separately, yearly, for monitoring privileges. Nice way to set up a revenue stream for a 20year life product.

[silverhorsefarm]

It's grid-tied, and it is definitely producing power. Unfortunately, it's all bought and paid for, I just can't seem to get the monitoring to work.

[Mike90250]

have it working, and approved utility tie-in before you pay the vendor the final check.

[silverhorsefarm]

Just installed a 11.34 kw PV array with Enphase microinverters and promised monitoring. I plugged the modem (Envoy) in to my router and it found the internet almost immediately, but it cannot find the powerline telemetry from the inverters.

I am going to try a different Envoy unit later today, but was wondering if anyone knows about the transmission distance limitations of the Enphase/Envoy system. The PV array is about 75 meters away from the house and I was thinking that the inverter telemetry is attenuating over that distance such that the Envoy modem can no longer hear the signal.

Any thoughts?