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English Version: help & tips
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Subjects:
Registration | Installer login | Evaluations: bookmarks to web charts |
How do we define a sub-system?
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Registration of your photovoltaic system in PHOTON Control
The following information should be available before registration of your PV system:
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Name of PV system:
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Enter a name of your own choice.
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Name of location:
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Enter a name of your choice and take into consideration, that the public will see this name, when you publish your PV systems data.
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Logger-ID:
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Enter the full registration logger id or choose the number of your logger out of the list. If your logger's ID is not available, call our support.
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Publish sensor measurement values:
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If you ordered and installed a PHOTON Control sensor kit and want to publish the weather measurements
(temperature of air and solar irradiation at horizontal level, which is the global irradiation), set a checkmark into the checkbox.
ZIP code, city and country are then mandatory and will be visible as search criteria to the public to find the
published weather data of your PHOTON Control sensor kit. Weather data are: air temperature and solar irradiation at horizontal level, respectively global irradiation.
If you additionally enter information about the street of the sensors' location, your specific sensor data can be identified although there might be various systems with the
same ZIP code. To publish your sensor data, street info is optional, and we will neither publish and show your full address nor your name. Street name will ONLY be visible with
published sensor data, NOT with published systems.
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Upload a picture of your PV system:
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While registration of your system or afterwards you will be able to upload a picture and a text to describe your PV system. Both will be visible to the public only if you publish your
PV system.
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Publish your photovoltaic system:
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While registration of your system or afterwards you will be able to upload a picture and a text to describe your PV system. Both will be visible to the public only if you publish your
PV system.
Public user will neither be able to download measurement values table nor look into the details of your PV system. Public user cannot connect sensor data with a public PV system.
To identify sensor data we show city and street, for the published systems we show the name of the system, given by you.
Public user will see the visualization of data analysis in web charts and the map of the published PV systems, regocnized by the name for the location. If you entered a memo and explanation
about your system, this and an uploaded picture will also be visible for the public.
ATTENTION TIP: Don't give your full address in the memo field or in the location name field at registration of your PV system to PHOTON Control.
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Coordinates and location
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Latitude and longitude:
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Via link to the google geocoder help you can find out longitude and latitude coordinates for the location of your PV system. Copy the determined values into the particular textfield of our registration form.
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Height of location:
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conforms to the height of the address above sea level. In this case estimated values are sufficient.
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Timezone:
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GMT +1 is the timezone for Germany and Western Europe. Just leave the displayed timezone.
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Alert messages
contact emails:
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choose, whether you want to receive an alert email for one of the named reasons. Reasons can be: on missing data or when photon-control has found a severe error in your system.
Please choose one language for the mail communication with you. Right now we have just capacity for one default language per PV system.
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Subsystem - installed modules
How do we define a sub-system or part system?
A sub-system is a set of modules linked in an array and connected to one or more inverters.
They have to be of the same type and either inclination or orientation (azimuth) have to be the same for each module in an array.
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Registering a sub-system |
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Subsystem name:
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This name and description, which you can enter for each set of installed modules (subsystem) is used for your own better overview.
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Azimuth:
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Azimuth describes the orientation of the PV system in degree, 0 is north, 90 is east, 180 is south and 270 is west. Ask your installation technician.
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Inclination:
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Enter the inclination of all of your modules in degrees, 0 signifies "horizontal" or "flat", 90 degrees signifies "vertical" or "upright".
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Power rating:
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Enter the installed capacity of your PV system in Watt (1 kW = 1000 Watt)
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Numbers of modules:
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Enter the amount of cable-connected modules.
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Module type:
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Select the type of your installed modules out of the list. If the type of module is not listed, choose "-- new module --" and send us the data sheet of the manufacturer via email (as PDF- or Word document).
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Technology:
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For technology information you should have the data sheet of your installed modules ready, as well, to choose the right technology in the list.
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Size of one module:
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Enter the area of ONE module in square meters.
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Amount of strings:
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Enter the amount of installed strings, please look into the module data sheet.
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Amount of inverters:
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You can enter 5 different inverters per subsystem (part with the same modules or the same orientation), each at position 1 to 5. The master inverter or the
one with the main power rating has to be at position 1. Those 5 inverters can be of the same type and manufacturer or different.
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Inverter type:
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Choose the installed inverter from the list. If you don't find it there, choose "-- New Inverter --" and send the data sheet by the manufacturer to our support in digital format (as text or pdf document).
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Installation setting:
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Choose in our list: well aereated back, bad aereated back or integrated into building, e.g. integrated into the roofing tiles.
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Start Date:
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The date of data reports and data sending of your installed data logger. If it is already running you can also enter a past date.
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Horizon:
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Leave the default values, shown in the fields, if your modules are not placed in a deep valley.
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New!
Installer login
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You can now also give your installer access to your PHOTON Control profile.
Are you having a hard time entering all technical specifications for your solar plant?
Then just register your site location and leave out all technical specifications.
Click on "Register PV system" to enter the details about your location, address, geo-coordinates, and image.
Then stop entering information and simply click on "View and edit plant details" and choose
"Login: enable login into your photon-control.net system to your installer" to reach a page where you can enter
your installer's PHOTON customer number.
Inform your installer and ask whether they can enter technical specifications on the orientation of the modules,
module types, inverters, angle, the sensor kit installed, and horizon/shading.
This information should be entered quickly because your PV system cannot be evaluated without it.
Your installer will first need to register at photon-control.net (with their customer number and password / access code).
If your installer knows the number of your data logger, he can enter this information under "view and edit array data", choosing "Teilanlage bzw. zusätzliche Module hinzufügen" in the bottom list; which are: installed modules
of different types or different orientations.
In the list on the "View and edit plant details" page, the installer would then select the item "Enter section of array or additional modules" to complete the registration process you began.
In general, you will have to enter an array section for each module type used if more than one type of module is
installed.
Keep in mind that up to five inverters can be entered for each array section at positions 1 to 5, even if they are
of the same type. If only one inverter is installed for multiple modules, this section constitutes ONE unit.
Problems occur when the modules are installed at varying angles and orientations, which cannot be calculated for.
We suggest then that you enter the average of these variants.
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Evaluations: bookmarks at WebCharts
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Have you tried to set a bookmark for the evaluation site only to find that you can reach the site with a quick login,
but the settings for months and days have been discarded?
In the following, we try to help you understand the system.
In a simple login, your login expires on closing the browser window (partly for security reasons), so you will have
to login again the next day when you revisit the site.
In the comfort or quick login, your browser remembers the login data and automatically sends it to the server
the next day to provide you with automatic access without a manual login.
The browser does not, however, remember the settings on the calendar module of the evaluations page. At the end of your session, those settings are lost.
You can terminate a session at photon-control.net by, say, closing at the browser tab or by logging out at photon-control.net.
Because all of the settings for the month and day that you were viewing are then lost, you will have to reselect them when you visit
the evaluations page at photon-control.net from your list of favorites.
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Deutsche Version:
Folgende Daten sollten Sie sich vor der Ersteingabe Ihrer Anlage mit Datenlogger bereit halten:
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Versione italiana:
Tenete a portata di mano i seguenti dati prima della registrazione iniziale del vostro impianto con data-logger PCD-1:
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Versión Español:
Antes de introducir sus datos por primera vez en el registro, debería tener a mano los siguientes datos:
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