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Wayne pump performance is tested to one million cycles by a certified lab, a premium feature enabled with Grid Connect cloud computing and digital technology expertise that tracks product performance.
Grid Connect had the technology expertise and contract manufacturing connections to facilitate a global supply chain and production capabilities for Rollease. Anywhere control of the home environment Home or away, Rollease customers or installers can now control their shades for lighting changes and privacy concerns with IoT connectivity from Grid Connect.
Grid Connect gave Schlage the Wi-Fi connectivity needed to allow their customers to open or lock their doors from anywhere in the world. Meeting production deadlines Keeping schedules on track is a top concern at Schlage, one that Grid Connect was able to meet by giving their internal teams a head start on development.
Grid Connect developed WiFi technology, device firmware, and iOS / Android apps that allowed Moen to bring their Smart Shower concept to life. Meeting demand for smart home technology With Grid Connect development support, Moen added product control via app (iOS or Android), voice (Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Assistant) and in-wall panel.
A grid-connected system allows you to power your home or small business with renewable energy during those periods (daily as well as seasonally) when the sun is shining, the water is running, or the wind is blowing. Any excess electricity you produce is fed back into the grid. When renewable resources are unavailable, electricity from the grid supplies your needs, eliminating the expense of electricity storage devices like batteries.
In addition, power providers (i.e., electric utilities) in most states allow net metering, an arrangement where the excess electricity generated by grid-connected renewable energy systems "turns back" your electricity meter as it is fed back into the grid. If you use more electricity than your system feeds into the grid during a given month, you pay your power provider only for the difference between what you used and what you produced.
Aside from the major small renewable energy system components, you will need to purchase some additional equipment (called "balance-of-system") in order to safely transmit electricity to your loads and comply with your power provider's grid-connection requirements. You may need the following items:
Because grid-connection requirements vary, you or your system supplier/installer should contact your power provider to learn about its specific grid-connection requirements before purchasing any part of your renewable energy system. See our page on balance-of-system equipment requirements for small renewable energy systems.
You will need to contact your power provider directly to learn about its specific requirements. If your power provider does not have an individual assigned to deal with grid-connection requests, try contacting your state utilities commission, state utility consumer advocate group (represents the interests of consumers before state and federal regulators and in the courts), state consumer representation office, or state energy office.
Power providers want to be sure that your system includes safety and power quality components. These components include switches to disconnect your system from the grid in the event of a power surge or power failure (so repairmen are not electrocuted) and power conditioning equipment to ensure that your power exactly matches the voltage and frequency of the electricity flowing through the grid.
In an attempt to address safety and power quality issues, several organizations are developing national guidelines for equipment manufacture, operation, and installation (your supplier/installer, a local renewable energy organization, or your power provider will know which of the standards apply to your situation, and how to implement them):
Although states and power providers are not federally mandated to adopt these codes and standards, a number of utility commissions and legislatures now require regulations for distributed generation systems to be based on the IEEE, UL, and NEC standards.
When connecting your small renewable energy system to the grid, you will probably need to sign an interconnection agreement with your power provider. In your agreement, power providers may require you to do the following:
In addition to insurance and fees, you may find that your power provider requires a great deal of paperwork before you can move ahead with your system. However, power providers in several states are now moving to streamline the contracting process by simplifying agreements, establishing time limits for processing paper work, and appointing representatives to handle grid-connection inquiries.
With a grid-connected system, when your renewable energy system generates more electricity than you can use at that moment, the electricity goes onto the electric grid for your utility to use elsewhere. The Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act of 1978 (PURPA) requires power providers to purchase excess power from grid-connected small renewable energy systems at a rate equal to what it costs the power provider to produce the power itself. Power providers generally implement this requirement through various metering arrangements. Here are the metering arrangements you are likely to encounter:
Some power providers will now let you carry over the balance of any net extra electricity your system generates from month to month, which can be an advantage if the resource you are using to generate your electricity is seasonal. If, at the end of the year, you have produced more than you've used, you forfeit the excess generation to the power provider.
When you say it takes 15 minutes for it to reconnect, which end are you talking about?
The Ethernet end or the serial end?
How do you test each end to know which it is that is dropping and taking so long to come back?
Are you using the virtual com port software that came with it?
(Also, your web link to the device is wrong, I Googled it from your post title since your link description is also wrong).
The Ethernet side of the ACT-2000 is up 24/7, ran a constant Ping on it over night just to see if it would ever drop. I am forced, due to lack of other equipment, use optoDisp to tell me whether or not the com port is functioning. OptoDisp shows a dropped connection, attempts to reconnect for a while (always roughly 15min) and then reconnects and sails along again for hours at a time.
Unfortunately I do not know how long the serial cable is. It is worth noting, however, that this works flawlessly when an integrated RS232 port is used, and the ATC-2000 is removed from the picture. That is, unfortunately, not an option as the computers that read from the Opto controller have since been moved out of reach of the serial cable.
Well, lets see what we know.
We know the network to the ATC is ok. (the ping test).
We know that most of the time, it all works as expected, for hours at a time, so we know the basic signal path is ok.
We know when it breaks, it takes around 15 minutes for it to reconnect.
Unfortunately I don't believe there is any way to mass migrate all your lights and connect them to your new router. You'd need to do them one by one, as they have individual addresses that the router needs to accept. However, let me mention our resident Grid Connect expert @CSParnell to see if he could share any nifty tricks.
It maybe a good time to research which one you do want to use based on and integrations you may want in the future and switch over since you are resyncing anyways. As long as you don't delete the data of the device the data will come across to any of the apps.
Google Assistant is also handy to combine different devices that are not compatible through say grid connect but are within Google Assistant so you can set some automations inside Assistant but don't expect in-depth automations without the Assistant environment.
Well, with multiple devices, from different manufacturers, including Grid Connect- lights, security cameras, speakers, media devices and a weather station, I thought the best thing to do was to setup the SSID network name and security the same as the previous one (which I had personalised away from the ISP supplied one).
AFTER a bit of meddling (the new router would not initially accept the old SSID (yes, the old router was unplugged and turned off completely), it finally worked once I got the SSID to take, and I didn't have to go around and reconfigure all of my smart devices.
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Thanks for that handy tip when changing over one device for another. I'm sure our members will find this information very useful, especially if they are planning on upgrading their equipment in an existing setup.
Initially, all I wanted to do was sound the 'Door Bell' tone, but it kept on sounding an 'Alarm' tone. I then realised all I needed to do was set the 'Door Bell' tone and ignore all the features I didn't want. Success! The basic idea is to FIRST set the required mode of operation (duration time, alarm mode, volume etc) and THEN set the required Alarm or Chime.
TIP: If an automation or scene changes the 'Alarm State' from 'normal' to 'alarm' whilst the unit is 'Armed', an Alarm tone is sounded immediately, bypassing all other settings. Changing the 'Alarm State' back to 'normal' or 'disarming' the unit will stop the alarm tone.
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