Hi everyone,
I am getting ready to kick off a system to run my water pump that supplies my new build house. I am currently building an acreage house north of Newcastle in Australia. As part of the project we will be on tank water collected from rainfall off the roof of the house. I have the grid available but my long term goal is to get off grid and only use the grid as a cheap backup.
Our power supply is fairly reliable but drops out at least once a month and can be out for a day at most. In order to kick off learning I am going to build a small offgrid generator system to run the water supply to the house without using the grid.
I have picked up a Phoenix Smart 12/2000 inverter and a 100/20 MPPT solar charge controller for $1K. Both are unused and new in box, so I am pretty happy at the outcome. I have a few questions in regards to monitoring.
1/ I would like to be able to access this little system through VRM remotely. Would the base level Cerbo S and a 4G USB dongle work. Wifi is not available and I dont want to do Starlink......yet. What would be an alternative. I have looked at Raspberry Pi but they are as rare as rocking horse poop at the moment.
2/ Does the aux relay connection on the Phoenix run at 230V AC or 12V DC or is it a pure switching contact and you choose the voltage. I'm going to build this in a pool pump box which is approx 1.5m x 1m x 1m and am looking at adding a secondary fan to cool the box when the inverter fan starts and would like to determine voltage.
Thank you for your time.
I am getting ready to kick off a system to run my water pump that supplies my new build house. I am currently building an acreage house north of Newcastle in Australia. As part of the project we will be on tank water collected from rainfall off the roof of the house. I have the grid available but my long term goal is to get off grid and only use the grid as a cheap backup.
Our power supply is fairly reliable but drops out at least once a month and can be out for a day at most. In order to kick off learning I am going to build a small offgrid generator system to run the water supply to the house without using the grid.
I have picked up a Phoenix Smart 12/2000 inverter and a 100/20 MPPT solar charge controller for $1K. Both are unused and new in box, so I am pretty happy at the outcome. I have a few questions in regards to monitoring.
1/ I would like to be able to access this little system through VRM remotely. Would the base level Cerbo S and a 4G USB dongle work. Wifi is not available and I dont want to do Starlink......yet. What would be an alternative. I have looked at Raspberry Pi but they are as rare as rocking horse poop at the moment.
2/ Does the aux relay connection on the Phoenix run at 230V AC or 12V DC or is it a pure switching contact and you choose the voltage. I'm going to build this in a pool pump box which is approx 1.5m x 1m x 1m and am looking at adding a secondary fan to cool the box when the inverter fan starts and would like to determine voltage.
Thank you for your time.
