pclifton
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JeremyW said:Hey Ken did you have a power outage yesterday? Just curious. Looks like both systems were off until 1pm? Also looks like you had production 6-8pm on Thursday, around 400 watts continuous?!
The 4 year old Envoy I mentioned in my original post died Thursday at about 4PM. I had ordered a replacement on eBay for much less than the $500 price most places are asking. The replacement came the same day that the Envoy died.
I installed the new one at 7 AM Friday, and left it scanning for devices. I shut the other small system down to eliminate any chance of those inverters being picked up by the new Envoy until it's new device scan completed. The new Envoy updated its 2013 firmware about 4 times. Looks like a sequential update process that rolls through each new version released.
I had a break at 2 PM and spoke with Enphase support to have the new Envoy added to my system. Thankfully that kept me from having to pay the additional $249 for per-panel monitoring. I put everything back online about 4 PM. That is the long version of what went on.
Unfortunately, my four year old TED5000 that I had programmed to auto-post every 5 minutes to PVOutput also died Thursday. The new "wall plug" is supposed to be here Monday. My PHP plugin that I wrote for Wordpress pulls from the TED5000 so my PVOutput and web site will not be displaying correctly until Monday evening.
Interesting that two unrelated systems decided to fail on the same day. I did have advanced notice that the Envoy was on its way out... Maybe in the summer I will do a tear down on the old Envoy. I would like to see what is inside it.
Ken Clifton