Hi
A confession - I am not an electrician but an ageing architect who grew up in the building industry (father a builder).
8 years ago I foolishly bought a dilapidated agricultural building with some land in the Spanish Pyrenees - in Catalunya close to border with Aragon. I am slowly renovating it and hope to spend half the year living there in the not too distant future.
It is situated on top of a 900m high mountain ridge and completely off-grid - I collect rainwater and currently generate electricity with a petrol generator.
I have been studying solar PV installations and understand what I need to get to make a suitable system to generate most of my electrical power. One thing is worrying me - how to monitor the system when I am not there, which can be for at least 3 months at a time.
There is no internet access but my mobile phone works fine there - I therefore need a reasonably priced add-on (to the inverter presumably) that will communicate by 3G so that I can monitor the system from my PC in the UK.
Having trawled the internet I have come up with one company, Solax (Suntellite), which has an inverter with a built-in 3G SIM card which uploads data to Xcloud.
Sounds suitable but the trail then disappears - I can't find where to buy it.
Can anyone with personal experience of this situation please help?
Thanks in anticipation.
Bob
A confession - I am not an electrician but an ageing architect who grew up in the building industry (father a builder).
8 years ago I foolishly bought a dilapidated agricultural building with some land in the Spanish Pyrenees - in Catalunya close to border with Aragon. I am slowly renovating it and hope to spend half the year living there in the not too distant future.
It is situated on top of a 900m high mountain ridge and completely off-grid - I collect rainwater and currently generate electricity with a petrol generator.
I have been studying solar PV installations and understand what I need to get to make a suitable system to generate most of my electrical power. One thing is worrying me - how to monitor the system when I am not there, which can be for at least 3 months at a time.
There is no internet access but my mobile phone works fine there - I therefore need a reasonably priced add-on (to the inverter presumably) that will communicate by 3G so that I can monitor the system from my PC in the UK.
Having trawled the internet I have come up with one company, Solax (Suntellite), which has an inverter with a built-in 3G SIM card which uploads data to Xcloud.
Sounds suitable but the trail then disappears - I can't find where to buy it.
Can anyone with personal experience of this situation please help?
Thanks in anticipation.
Bob