Solar Charge controller with Ethernet Release : 19 June 2014 Hardware Version : Version 1 Firmware version 1 PC Application Software : Version 1.0.0.0 Hardware Description :
The Solar Smart regulator was designed as an aid for Network owners to indicate voltage levels, charge currents and detect power related issues at remote sites with solar panels. Measurements : 1. Battery voltage 12v and 24v systems with Auto select 2. Charge current to Battery 20A max 3. Load current - max 6 Amps 4. Input wattage from Solar Panel 5. Output wattage and current to the load 6. Kw/h meter for Input and Output Power 7. Temperature sensing 8. Panel voltage monitoring and also indicating active or not. 9. 1 x Normally closed Tamper Alarm contact input 10. PC application software Solar Monitor
Monitoring web page: Indicating : Panel on/off status Panel voltage Battery voltage Charge current to Battery Input Watts Output Watts (+ amps) Total Kw/h meter for Energy in Total Kw/h meter for Energy out
PC Monitoring Software (Solar-Monitor) Setup instructions : Connect +12vdc or +24vdc (use correct terminal as per drawing) and ground supply power to the battery terminals Solar Smart R1 will be displayed Keep Factory reset button pressed (next to LAN RJ45) and switch on +12v or +24v power supply, Keep the Reset key pressed Starting network on Port 13 appears on the LCD, release the factory reset button as soon as run led is on permanently and LCD is stuck on starting network on Port 13 Default Factory settings will now be loaded and displayed on the LCD as: Device IP : 192.168.11.20 / IP address of unit Remote host : 192.168.11.1 / configure your pc LAN IP address to this
The MAC address of the LAN Port will be displayed on the Lcd. Message Starting Network on Port 13 will be displayed, where after about 2 seconds the Ethernet Port will be ready. The Heart beat Led should start blinking Web Browser (eg. Internet Explorer): Enter the default IP address of the unit into the search bar : 192.168.11.20 and connect After successfully connected to the LAN port the web configuration page will display. The unit will also display the status of all measurements on the web configuration page. After Network settings is changed under the IP settings button click the Update button. The Clear Counters button will clear both the Kw/h counters The reload page will refresh the web page, the unit refresh automatically every 3 sec The unit will indicate Re - Boot while rebooting to load the new configured settings User settings Loaded will be displayed from now every time the unit boots up and the user s programmed IP address and Remote Host addresses will be displayed, unless a factory reset is done again..
Monitoring Screen Panel : On B: 13.3V I: 07.6 A L: 1.32A Top Left: Panel : On if Panel is active Panel off if Panel is not active Top Right: Battery Voltage Bottom Left: I : Amps that is currently flowing to battery Bottom Right: L: load current in Amps consumed by the load Every 18 seconds a packet is transmitted over Ethernet in UDP protocol The following screen will be displayed : UDP Data Send Ok ****The unit will detect a Faulty or no LAN connection condition here and the following will be displayed or if the host IP is not found on the network *** NO LAN CONNECTED! Or No Host found The unit will restart to try and re-establish a LAN connection again
ALARM input This is a normally closed alarm input the board already supplies power on the alarm input so the user should only connect a potential free switch type contact. The Alarm input will only be activated after the first data packet was successfully sent over Ethernet. Should the contact be opened the unit will transmit the Alarm data immediately An alarm condition will be generated in the pc solar monitor software. Tamper Alarm! Alarm Data send Installing the Software Run the.zip file - Solar monitor setup this will install Solar monitor V1.0.0.0 on the system follow instructions on screen. Select Add tower to add a tower line double click the tower line to alter any settings for the specific tower. Select Remove Tower to delete a tower entry. Setup Emails to receive e-mails for any alarms generated by the unit (eg. Low battery volts below user setting temperature above user setting Tamper alarm) with date and time stamp should the alarms have been enabled for this in the setup menu of a tower line. Under e-mail settings also select if fault restored e-mails should be send with date and time stamp the moment the fault have been cleared. Selecting Station button the user set a station name for the software display on top left of screen. Select list or block view alters the display window user defined
In the tower setup menu after a double click on the tower line, Tower name : Enter a user defined name for the tower Tower Ip Address : Enter the Ip address for the unit as programmed onto the hardware Solar unit Battery Alarm level (Below): Enter the Battery voltage where an alarm condition should be generated for a low battery voltage condition in decimal.eg : 11.3 or 10.5 etc. Temperature Alarm level (Above): enter the value in degrees Celcius for alarm condition to be generated in case of temperature above user setting. Eg : 40 or 35 Tamper Alarm Enabled: Select the checkbox should the tamper alarm be activated, The Software will respond to tamper alarm data received from NPM. If un checked the software will still receive tamper alarm data from the NPM unit but will not respond to it. Log Data if enabled keeps a 48hr graph of battery voltage and charging current Log Faults : if enabled keeps record of alarm conditions that occurred for each tower line E mails can also be setup to send a mail to a specified address as in the users e-mail settings list as soon as a alarm condition exists, the user can also select to receive another e-mail as soon as the alarm condition have been cleared General settings tab : Select automatic IP address detection of the unit if no blockage of the IP address occurs on the network
Select use data as specified in packet if gateway or router is blocking the Solar Smart IP address Server and remote function : Selecting remote function for a remote computer will auto populate the list of units installed on the server computer onto the remote view computer.