Tesla coupled with a SolarCity charging station?!

[NigelM]

This is what a reporting system looks like....

Here is one of my arrays. You can see that one panel towards the top left is slightly lower than the others, I went outside to look and a big Heron was sitting up there enjoying the morning sun. On the bottom right there are 2 panels that are showing low output, that is the shade from my neighbors coconut trees but that occurs every day till about 10.00am when the sun is high enough.



Here is a graph which shows yesterday was a cloudy day:



For comparison, here's a rainy day from this week:



And a sunny day:

[dsm363]

This is what a reporting system looks like....

Here is one of my arrays. You can see that one panel towards the top left is slightly lower than the others, I went outside to look and a big Heron was sitting up there enjoying the morning sun. On the bottom right there are 2 panels that are showing low output, that is the shade from my neighbors coconut trees but that occurs every day till about 10.00am when the sun is high enough.

Wow. That's an impressive system. My parents had a much smaller system installed with the same monitoring software (screen capture looks the same) with 10 panels.
Does anyone here have the skills (and time) to design a Mac widget to check in on this system? I contacted the company to see if they had some kind of screen you could put in your house to glance at your power production without having to log in. They said the have an API they can hand out if someone knows how to design the software which I don't.

Anyway, nice system.

[NigelM]

I contacted the company to see if they had some kind of screen you could put in your house to glance at your power production without having to log in. They said the have an API they can hand out if someone knows how to design the software which I don't.

Anyway, nice system.

Thanks. The Enlighten system has alert settings which you can customize; it sends me an e-mail under certain conditions and in case of any individual panel or inverter problems (never had one yet!). I get the mails on my Blackberry as well as on my desktop and that's seems fine for rapid notification of any problems. I log on through a standard browser, so I can leave it one my desktop/laptop the whole day if I wish; I have a multi-screen set-up so theoretically I can leave it on screen all the time, but unless clouds are moving across rapidly it's pretty boring to watch.

Further to my earlier post. Here's the updated array with shadows and bird gone:



Here's my second array:



And on my third and final array you can see that I also have tall palm trees; this array gets a shadow on 3 panels everyday between 12.00pm and 2.00pm. I'm debating whether to move the panels or the tree!