New To Forum, Solaredge monitoring question

[nevetsyad]

Anyone know the brand and model number of the gateway? I purchased the Solaredge slave and installed it, then realized, Solaredge doesn't just sell the gateway. I'm hoping it's someone else's product, just sold through them? I really don't want to pay $300+ for a kit that includes another slave. Can anyone help?

[miracj]

My dealer provided a set of power ethernet adapters with SolarEdge and so far mine has been very stable. No need to crawl or poke holes other than plug one adapter to a nearby power outlet and run the ethernet cable to the inverter. The other adapter just plugged in one of the ports in the router. Simple and stable

I don't have a Solaredge system, but assuming you can use a hardwire LAN connection with the inverter, and have a 120V AC outlet near the inverter, I can agree with the above that using a Powerline network adapter is the best solution.

You can most likely get by with a 200 Mbps version for this purpose, and the prices can be in the order of $25 or even less on sale for a kit (2 in a kit). E.g. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833156435

Even the slowest speed Powerline in a house is typically faster than most internet connections. Just plug one near the inverter, and hook it up by LAN, and the other one near your router or switch and connect the LAN at that end. Much easier than running cables for this application.

[DanKegel]

Agreed, I've had fairly good results with netgear powerline networking wallwarts. If you can't run hardwired ethernet, they're the next best thing.

It doesn't work everywhere, though; I have a few outlets that it just doesn't work on.
Also, they don't last forever. I'm using four or five, and seems like every year I have to replace one that gets bricked after a power outage. Fortunately, they're cheap enough these days.

[miracj]

It doesn't work everywhere, though; I have a few outlets that it just doesn't work on.

Also, they don't last forever. I'm using four or five, and seems like every year I have to replace one that gets bricked after a power outage. Fortunately, they're cheap enough these days.

Because of the frequencies they employ, the Powerline works to both 120V sides (electrically, not physically) of a 240V electrical panel in a home, unlike the old X10 power controllers which only worked on one side on the other (unless they had a crossover device). So I am kind of surprised you have a few outlets that don't work. It would be worth a check to make sure those sockets are wired correctly with the ground, neutral and hot wires. I've seen mistakes in homes with the neutral and hot wired backwards, or no ground although I don't know if that would solve your issue.

I have had a single failure of a 100 Mbps device by a client maybe 5 years ago, but nothing since then. Even though they say not to use them through a power strip, they do work with them from my testing (maybe not 100% YMMV), so maybe that would help with your failure in power.

[DanKegel]

The house is old and I wouldn't be surprised if it were poorly wired, but it's also pretty big, it's a long way from the outlet that failed (next to the solaredge!) to the rest of the house.
I can't recall if I've noticed powerstrips interfering or not, but I'm aware of the issues, and wasn't using one when I was testing the bad outlet.

Anyway, modern powerline network wall-warts are definitely worth trying these days. My occasional problems with them is probably untypical.