Data logger SolConnect Mouse from Papendorf

The German company Papendorf Software Engineering GmbH was planning to launch a small programmable data logger in the second quarter of this year.     

© photon-pictures.com The small data logger SolConnect Mouse saves the data by using a commercially available compact flash card.

The SolConnect Mouse is only 11 x 6.8 x 3 cm in size. The data of an inverter from German manufacturers SMA or Dorfmüller can be recorded optionally via an RS485 or a RS232 interface (application for inverters from Fronius, Kaco, Aixcon, and others are in the development stage), whereas more inverters of the same type can be connected to an RS485 bus. Commercially available compact flash cards are used for storage. They can be exchanged, which makes it possible to archive the energy yield over long periods. The data can be analyzed with a PC that is capable of reading compact flash cards. 

Likewise, the PC can get in contact with the data logger via an additional RS232 interface. Communication by modem is also possible. The data is displayed on the computer by using the visualization software that comes with the logger. It can be programmed freely, and the respective software can be downloaded from the Internet (in German). Via an optional available sensor module, it is possible to connect temperature and irradiation sensors. 

Several of these data loggers can be operated as a network by using Papendorf's SolConnect Center, which makes it possible to control large systems as well as hybrid systems. The SolConnect Mouse is powered by electricity from an external wall power supply; power consumption should be much lower than 1 W. The data logger costs €350 ($419) before taxes. Jens Nickel

Papendorf Software Engineering GmbH
Hauptstrasse 115 
75365 Calw, Germany
phone +49/7051/93698-0, fax -22
info@papendorf-se.de 
www.papendorf-se.de

Jens Nickel
© PHOTON International, June 2004