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Toomuchpizza
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« on: March 10, 2010, 10:28:48 PM »
Are there any off-grid solar controllers that have decent logging capabilities ? So something that can be connected to a Pc and current/historical data looked at for what the controller is doing.

And..ideally something where I'm not forced to just use one unfriendly Windows program to view it. So Linux/OSX support, or an open data format a real plus.

I'm guessing this is more something the high-end controllers will do, but anything more modest in term of price would be interesting.
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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 10:45:13 PM »
The outback range with a mate & the right software can do it.

Most need the pc to be on & connected all the time.
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« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2010, 08:51:30 AM »
perhaps have a look at "Steca Tarom "  and "Phocos CX "  chargecontrollers

but i think both are more or less for windows

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« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2010, 04:35:58 PM »
The morningstars appear to be quite good for connectivity, even the non MPPT tristars seem to communicate over plain old modbus:
http://www.morningstarcorp.com/en/support/item.cfm?ItemId=205
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