PV Solar Design Introduction There are approaching 130,000 solar installations in the USA alone, and while that number isn't growing as quickly as …
ClickPLC Modbus TCP and VTScada This is the first in a potential series called Tutorial Tuesday where I post a quick tutorial on some technical …
Updating the program - Home Energy Management System Back in the fall I finally started programming the ClickPLC to manage the thermal ETS that heats the studio. There …
Finally programming my ETS All of last year I had to use alligator clips to "switch on" the heating elements in the ETS. Lift …
Answering the Question: What is a Smart Grid? The North American power grid is an incredible thing. Stretching from coast to coast, through mountains and forests and valleys …
EthernetIP and the SEL RTAC - Tutorial My experience with EthernetIP and CIP was limited to the interaction between VTSCADA and Allen-Bradley PLCs. This experience was amazingly …
Feasibility Studies for Renewable Projects There is a lot of activity around adding renewable projects to isolated system and/or behind the meter. Renewable generation …
Updating Heating Control - Home Micro Grid This post is all about how I'm updating the current control of the ETS that we installed last November. When …
Electric Thermal Storage There is a lot of talk about chemical based energy storage (batteries), but before batteries there was thermal storage. Thermal …
What is the Point of Common Coupling I have been working with a couple regulated utilities over the last few years. Neither of these utilities have a …
Voltage Levels and Terms The purpose of this post is to define the terms that I use elsewhere on this site, including documents, articles …
Password Override Jumper on RTAC 3505 Have you ever arrived at a site and there is no password for the device? You have to log on …