Back in Business!

[keyturbocars]

Hey Guys,

Been working outside all day.  Ryan, I've got my old Classic all packed up and ready to ship back (plan to give it to our mail lady in the morning).  Plus, I managed to do something to my old HP power supply and it stopped working.  I had it standing up on it's end yesterday while I was using it, and then later it tipped over on the concrete floor.  After it hit, it stopped working.  Thankfully that was after I finished powering my old Classic and transferring over my settings.  Anyway, all that to say that it would not be convenient for me to try to unpack and power up my old Classic now.  Maybe I was just doing something weird yesterday.  I skipped dinner and was a bit in a hurry to get things hooked up while the wind was still blowing.  I wanted to get some testing time in before I went to bed to make sure everything was working properly.  I didn't do anything with the old MNGP on the new Classic.  I'll have to play with the wind editor another time.  Maybe I was just seeing things yesterday.  Sorry if I got you going on a wild goose chase.  

I'll let you know if I still have problems with the Classic MEM.  Maybe the problem is just with my own personal MEM!    By the way, the Classic worked great last night.  Nice to be back in business again.  It's calm again now, but now I'm ready for the next winds that comes along.

Edward

EDIT:  OK guys, something does appear to be different.  Either that or I am really making myself look dumb here.    I just played around with the wind editor a little more.  If I make a change to a wind curve and then press Enter, then it saves those changes to all MEM locations 1-9.  If I edit a wind curve and then click MEM and scroll to a particular MEM # and then push SAVE, it saves that curve to all MEM locations 1-9.  When I go back and check MEM 1 - 9 and push RECALL, then they are all the same.  So, either something has changed, or I am doing something different and incorrectly trying to save curves.  In any case, it's not a big deal at all, as I really only need one curve in there anyway at any one time. 

[boB]

Edward, this MEM thing is extremely weird !

I didn't play too much with that particular MNGP and I will have to look at a couple others from production just to make sure.
When you hit ENTER, it doesn't save the curve to ANY memories in the MNGP, it just tells the Classic to remember the curve
in its non-vomitable memory, which is separate from the MNGP/Remote MEMs...  So after that, whenever you go
back into the wind graph editor from another menu or whatever, it reads the curve from the Classic itself...  Not the MEM.

When you go to a MEM and hit RECALL, it recalls that curve into the display and sends it immediately to the Classic but the
Classic won't remember if it is powered off and on again unless the ENTER button was pressed and the message "DATA
SAVED" or whatever it says.

But you've had a Classic for a while now and are familiar with it, so I'm sure there must be something wrong there.

Now to figure out what it is.  Why is it you that has to have these problems ??  Yeah... That's it !  It MUST be you !

We'll hopefully  figure out more this weekend.  You must be starting to get some good solar over on that side of
the mountains about now, right ?

boB

[keyturbocars]

Yes, Bob.  I think the common denominator with all these problems is clearly.... ME! 

The way you describe the wind curve editor behavior with ENTER and MEM recall is the way it used to work with my old Classic.  Something is different now.  Like I said, not a big deal for me.  I really only need one curve loaded at a time anyway.

Yes, today is supposed to be 85F and tomorrow I think I saw 89F in the forecast.  I spent all day cutting some alfalfa yesterday trying to take advantage of some of this solar radiation for hay drying!

Edward

[keyturbocars]

Making some great wind power today.  My Classic has registered around 23 kwh so far today with the wind averaging around 18-20mph.   

By the way, I'm thinking that the kwh power shown on the Status screen is recorded for the times between sunrise and sunset?  I'm guessing this is the way it works, because it seems like the Classic resets the kwh to 0.0 near sunset time.

Glad to be back in action with my Classic!!

Edward

[boB]

Making some great wind power today.  My Classic has registered around 23 kwh so far today with the wind averaging around 18-20mph.   

By the way, I'm thinking that the kwh power shown on the Status screen is recorded for the times between sunrise and sunset?  I'm guessing this is the way it works, because it seems like the Classic resets the kwh to 0.0 near sunset time.

Glad to be back in action with my Classic!!

Edward

Glad you are making some energy again.

For wind or hydro, the Classic will reset the kW-Hours and accumulate them into the total kW-Hours once every 24 Hours.  It just depends on when you started the Classic as to when that happens.   This will eventually happen sometime during the middle of the night or be selectable.

boB

[keyturbocars]

OK, that makes sense.  I must have cycled the power on the Classic the evening before, and it reset the kW-hrs 24 hours later.

Edward

[boB]

OK, that makes sense.  I must have cycled the power on the Classic the evening before, and it reset the kW-hrs 24 hours later.

Edward

The Classic will eventually have a "Force New Day" bit or something where you can transfer the daily log
to the accumulated log and THEN you can turn the power off so you don't lose it.

It may actually already have that bit in there but there isn't a menu item for it if there is.

boB