http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/ Engadget Comments for Enphase Enlighten system controls home heating, cooling, solar production in the same web app http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Jul 15th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Jul 15th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Jul 15th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Dido! And, why not like for her?]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Oh no. I'm clearly over worked today. That was supposed to say:

"Why no link for her?"]]>Jul 15th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Jul 15th 2010 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/ No $h*t... It's Hot as Balls in TX!!!

Now where's the webapp for this product?]]>Jul 15th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/
Irrelevant and probably uninteresting comment, but a comment none the less.]]>Jul 15th 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Jul 15th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Jul 15th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/
It sits on my LAN and gets performance and status information from each microinverter over the AC wiring. I can monitor it directly using telnet to the web-services port, or they have a fancy web site that converts it into graphical information. It's kind of slick -- you can watch timelapse of individual panel power output, or overall system performance.

(Checking the site: currently generating 1.7kW, with today's total production 4.4kWh)

Microinverters are a little controversial in the solar world. They are more expensive, and it's not certain how long their MTBF is. Still, on a small system like mine, having microinverters works great when there's no way to avoid occasional occlusion of one or two modules (the panels themselves). In a monolithic inverter system, that would kill the power generation of the whole string of modules. With a microinverter system, you only lose the power from the occluded modules.

I don't have any air-conditioning, so I'm not in the market for this new stuff.

But I'm definitely a happy customer.]]>Jul 15th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Jul 15th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/
I'd talk to professionals. Definitely find out how many installs they've done, and get some references. There are a lot of scammers out there! I have personal knowledge of a case where a guy with a reputable-sounding front company was putting home-made panels on houses, and one house nearly burned down (it would have, had it been further from the fire station)!

Get UL-listed panels (Siemens, Kyocera, Mitsubishi, Sanyo, Sharp ... and ironically BP are good brands) and inverters, and make sure the mounting hardware looks industrial rather than tinkertoy-ish.

But seriously, talk to pros. Don't trust information on the internet :)]]>Jul 15th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/15/enphase-enlighten-system-controls-home-heating-cooling-solar-p/Jul 15th 2010 4:17PM