Speaking Eco Green

Setting up a Solar Power System.

This component is a must have.

System Meter is the fourth component we can talk about in the series of components you’ll need to have to build a Solar Power Energy System.  A system meter measures and displays several different aspects of your  solar-electric system’s performance and status,  tracking how full your battery bank is,  how much electricity is being used.  Operating your solar-electric system without metering is like running your car without any gauges hooked up to track the performance of the engine,  even though you could leave it out, but that would be unwise, you need to keep track of how much energy is being made, how much energy is being stored, and how much energy is being used.

Think of the component like this, it is your fuel gauge and you need to know how much energy is coming from your panels and how much energy is being used up.  Some inverter manufacturing company’s now provide wireless meters to allow system monitoring from any room in your house, so you can keep an eye on the monitoring of the system at any time.

How could you know if your system was working to it’s full potential, or if you was making effective energy usage decisions?

Real Time Solar Monitoring. You can gain access to energy data to gain an understanding of how you could optimize your solar energy system.  You can get connected to one of the web-based systems.  Here’s how it works.  Data from sensors at the inverter and the main electrical panel is sent to a communications gateway.  The information is then sent out to the internet broadband, modem, or wireless, where it’s processed into data and is present on web pages for access.  You can keep track of real time data on your home computer.