Connecting your TriStar to your pc
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:53 pm
Hi Troy. I just watched your most recent video where you talk about the weather affecting the output of your solar panels. It reminded me of one of the videos of when you first got your TriStar controller, and I thought you said it could be hooked up via ethernet to your PC. I found a video on how to do it, and it looks like you could set up a page so people could see live data on how much power you're bringing in, and the charge status of the batteries, etc. It looks like Morningstar makes a free data logging program too, so you could log the controller's data for your own use. It would be interesting to see the correlation between your weather station data and the solar panel/controller data, and how the weather affects the panel's output during the day.
Here's a link to the video showing how to set up and view the TriStar's web page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2XBguHAK_w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Just an interesting thought for your site. And thanks for the great videos as always!
Here's a link to the video showing how to set up and view the TriStar's web page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2XBguHAK_w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Just an interesting thought for your site. And thanks for the great videos as always!