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<blockquote data-quote="Bob321" data-source="post: 391554" data-attributes="member: 26159"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>A confession - I am not an electrician but an ageing architect who grew up in the building industry (father a builder).</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Sounds suitable but the trail then disappears - I can't find where to buy it.</p><p></p><p>Can anyone with personal experience of this situation please help?</p><p></p><p>Thanks in anticipation.</p><p></p><p>Bob</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob321, post: 391554, member: 26159"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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