Put Solar on it!

On October 10th, 2010, people all over the world will be joining a global work party in what could be the biggest day of climate action ever.
More than a thousand events are planned: to put up solar panels, install wind turbines, plant urban gardens, and take other action to create a green energy future.

We're teaming up with our friends at 350 and 10:10 to ask that world leaders lead by installing solar panels on their own rooftops and on their government buildings.

Add your voice here and demand our politicians roll up their own sleeves with us. If you want to join or start your own work party on October 10th, sign up here.

In-Panel Electronics Enable Module and Junction Box Manufacturers to Integrate Award-Winning Power Optimizer Technology

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – June 1, 2010 – National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog semiconductors, today introduced the solar industry’s first in-panel SolarMagic™ chipset, marking the advent of a new category of solar systems: “smart panels.”

Whereas solar panels today are prone to underperform due to conditions such as age, mismatch and shade, smart panels incorporate advanced electronics to harvest the maximum energy from a solar system.  National and its partners will demonstrate SolarMagic smart panels at Intersolar Europe in Munich, Germany, June 9-11, 2010.  Visit National Semiconductor in Hall B5, Booth #429.

The SM3320 SolarMagic smart panel chipset is the most recent addition to National’s award-winning SolarMagic product line and provides junction box and module manufacturers with the “smarts” to ensure the highest efficiency and return on investment for solar system owners.  By coupling more energy production with a lower balance of systems cost, the SM3320 provides solar system owners a high-performance solution at the lowest cost per kilowatt-hour.

“By introducing the first in-panel smart electronics to the solar market, we are keeping with a five decades long tradition of developing the category-defining products that shape an industry," said Mike Polacek, senior vice president of National’s Key Market Segments Group.  "National Semiconductor has been embedded in the solar industry since its inception.  Already, our power management electronics are used in nearly two-thirds of the inverter and junction box market and we currently have more than 100 MW of solar systems under SolarMagic monitoring and management.  The development of smart panels builds on what National does best – smart power management electronics – to enable higher efficiency, more robust solar systems."

We working on a way to give the users the possibility to add some daily announcements to there mysolarlog domains.
The question was can we add some announcement text about the current situation or status from our solar system.


With our new Twitter implementation we add the last tweet on main page and we added a new page mySolarTweets!

Check the test on test.mysolarlog.com

How about that!

Plugwise, a Dutch company, developing energy management systems since 2006, is proud of its unique invention: a wireless energy management system allowing domestic and commercial users to gain detailed understanding of their energy consumption where they see it: at the plug on the wall.

Plugwise has developed a smart plug based on innovative Dutch network technology. The plug is easily placed between the outlet and the plug of the appliance. The plug measures the energy consumption and transmits the data to the PC wirelessly. The PC-software allows insight in the exact energy consumption, the Co2 emission and the costs, in one glance. For each individual appliance, outlet and room.

Because there are a lot of solarinverters on the market that has no readout possibility via a port this device brings the solution.
This plug is monitored with the PlugWise Source software and stores the results every hour.

A new version of the mySolarApp is specilally designed for this device. So every inverter can be monitored now!

On this beta testpage test.mysolarlog.com you can find the results from the webpages builded around the PlugWise data.

Only one Circle plug is monitored be now but we are planning to interfacing more.

What's Your Solar Power Today?

In the new mySolarApp version we added a diagnostic mode to make a data capture every minute for a max duration of four hours. In the capture we pull out the battery voltages, charger currents and panel currents. This data is presented in a graph where you can switch on or off the items that you want to study.

We support now 4 Inverters and 4 chargers (all connected to the Outback Mate).

Send the log file (xml formatted) to your installer to ask for advice. The installer can download the free Viewer to see the same graphs as the mySolarApp program provides to you.

Some screenshots:

On 24 december 2008 we released a new version of the commercial mySolarApp program.
Now you are able to see, locally, graphs for daily and last 10 days generated kwh and battery voltages.

Below a sample graph:



We also extended the problem reporting routine that informs you about how your system is performing.

A sample e-mail message looks like:

User: aren Local time: 29-12-2008 21:31:40
ACinput is lost Voltage ACin FX2 : 64 V

or

User: bbbrown Local time: 12/29/2008 2:31:38 AM
FX1 Warning Mode: Temp sensor failed

The FX needs to be checked by a qualified repair technician. Note that the AirTemp, FETtemp And CapTemp warnings listed in the Mate’s STATUS/FX/WARN menu can help with troubleshooting.

The First official release of the mySolarApp program is released today. After months of programming and testing it’s finally there. Thanks to the feedback from the field testers we think we have created an amazing product here.

What is the mySolarLog Free and mySolarLog Full version?

Answers to this an a lot other questions can be found on the FAQ page and in the downloads section. Here you can download the mySolarApp Manual.

What do you think about our program, we are open for new ideas to build in. Contact us or leave a message in the guestbook.

Try before by and download the mySolarApp FREE version.

The new gadget for the mySolarApp program is a special webapp for the iPhone. With chart information as today, last 10 days, Sell and Buy values but also current month, year, last month and last year. All available for the iPhone and Ipod touch.

Just visit a website from one of our testteam members with your iPhone and be surpriced.

Reaction from our testteam member:

I am very, very impressed with the Iphone app. GREAT job. I love it. Much better and more useful than just going to a single chart. Thanks so much. I think this will be a popular feature. We need to really advertise it on the main web site with some screenshots.

So here some screenshots (click is big):

We have made a lot of progress the last weeks and the program thats comming out soon is in final field test.
Check out the website from our tester bbbrown in Florida, Bob is running the latest version.

We added a lot of new features like month- and current year graphs, a small editor for your personal mySolarSite, ftp upload support for your own image on the mySolarSite, an CSV import for your own gathered data to read into the database and the simplified ftp setup.

Update:

On request by the testteam we added a Grid AC graph in a 24 hour map and the Sell and Buy graphs has equal and dynamical scales now.

The Free version is also available for test now, contact us for one month free webspace and test the program with your own system.

To make the graph charts even more attractive, we introduced the flash chart for the today and last 10 days charts.
See them live at the sites from our field testers in Florida.

AenA IN Motion has opened this new website to enable your solar power data to be visible on the Web. With our mySolarApp software and the mySolarLog.com website this much desired capability will finally be available. Monitor your system at work or play using a laptop, desktop, or Iphone from any location. 

With soon-to-be-available tools such as Vista Sidebar Gadget, Google Gadget, yoursite.mysolarlog.com and the exciting iSolarLog iPhone application. You can see how your solar system performs from anywhere at any time!