Recent content by tyab

Final update. I sold the CA home a few years ago - that Ubiquiti PtP link is still working perfectly (according to the new owners whom I say in touch with) - they have never rebooted (except from power outages) nor have they done any firmware upgrades - they just work keeping the Enphase unit...

It's been another 18 months and figured I would toss in an update. The link from the home to the solar via the Ubiquiti AirMax LiteBeam AC23's is still rock solid and even in the worst rain/snow storms it has never lost link except during complete power outages. I'm guessing the alignment of the...

Output bounces around with weather (rain,snow, cloud cover, dust, smoke from fires, etc) and time of year (mainly shade from neighbors tall pine trees and general shade from the surrounding mountains) but at the low end I get over 1.5mWh/month during winter and at the high end around...

My bad - I completely forgot to update this thread with my final solution that I finished in July of 2017. 2 x Ubiquiti AirMax LiteBeam AC running point to point in bridge mode - one under the 2nd story roof pointing to the other at the solar site on a pole that is about 6' off of the grade. Not...

I have the homeplug units setup for a security camera (not yet installed) on my driveway - its about 80' from the house to the pump house - maybe 110' or so total wire distance. The testing I have done shows the AV2 units work perfectly there - communication no issue and enough bandwidth for...

Thiggins - you hit the root issue perfectly. I'm off today and spent all morning down there trying a bunch of things. 1. I ran 250' of #10 extension cord plugged into my pool GFCI plug (this pool is about 1/2 of the way down there). This is how I powered my tools during construction. Plugged...

I received my TP Link AV2000 kit yesterday and got it working inside of the home. Super simple, plug them in and they were communicating. For security I had them pair to each other and now they are not using the default keys. So easy - hit pair on one, hit pair on the other and your done.. I was...

Thanks Tim - The way Envoy-S works is that it is collecting data (via a proprietary powerline prototal) from the known microinverters, and then packages it up and bursts it every 5 mins to the Enphase servers. Thus under normal operations I would expect transmissions from Envoy-S through the...

Thanks for the link! I ordered the TP-Link AV2000 kit on amazon but they are backordered for a few weeks. I'll let folks know how well they work when it gets here.

In retrospect I am kicking myself for not thinking of this when I had the trench 0pen, it would have been easy to add an empty 1-1/4" conduit the entire length down there when I put in the 3" conduit. But the reality is that stuff is all buried and due to location (steep grades, rocks, and...

Hello all - Got a question about Homeplug AV2 and longer distances - in the 400'-500' range. What I am looking for is low bandwidth communication from a ground solar system to my house where the overall distance is over 400'. I am not concerned about any significant bandwidth but do care about...