Our solar system has been running about a month now. It is comprised of 11 PV panels, each with its own inverter. These inverters are made by Enphase Energy and have monitoring capability built-in. To monitor production, Enphase has a data gathering box called the Envoy. The Envoy goes out on the powerline network and […]

We've been up and running for about a week now. Our solar system has a monitoring system so that we can see how much each panel is producing. It will be tracked on the web, but for now, I have manual access. Looking at the data, there is one panel / inverter missing. Either the […]

We've decided to go Solar, solar electric, that is. Otherwise known as Solar PV or Solar photovoltaic, this technology has been around for quite some time. Just recently though, there has been several factors that make solar pv very price attractive.