Battery Monitor using MNGP

[dgd]

Now that the WBjr/Classic combination has proved a success (and advances the Classic further beyond the competition  ), are there any plans to create a separate (from Classic) battery monitor?
Perhaps using the MNGP for display and the WBjr.

I would imagine a box with some similar or improved functionality to the OB Flexnet DC system.
Of course with a couple or six AUX outputs that could provide controls based on battery V, soc etc..

And maybe going further to have several WBjrs monitored.

dgd

[Tons001]

Additional AUX outputs would be awesome!

[dgd]

...and (dare I say!)  with a simple web interface built in and an ethernet port /serial port
so maybe an MNGP version and a 'networked' version...

dgd

[Halfcrazy]

That is a product we have been kicking around. The WB1000 it would have Ethernet, RS232 and it would speak Modbus. It would have a number of Inputs and Outputs for Aux funcions etc. It would likely have a webserver and maybe run Linux I am not sure there? It should be able to talk to the devices over RS232 and speak TCP/IP to whomever wants it.

This is a needed product we just need to find the engineering time for it.

[dgd]

So its actually got a name - the WB1000?
A needed product indeed, I can see a few thousand sales of these within a short time.
I know it probably too soon to ask but has a specification/features list been drawn up yet or any design work taken place?

dgd

[zoneblue]

Blackbox? You can add a small lcd to it. More aux ports should also be doable.

Its not stated but i assume the WBJr is dallas one wire, or maybe i2c. Try connecting one to an arduino and see what you get out of it.

But sounds like youre after a retail product?

[dgd]

zb,

Yes the blackbox method is good for me, I have been playing with a 4inch colour graphics display on an arduino while waiting on beagleb to arrive.  Making a BM looks doable.
However, since I'm supporting thirteen sites now all with MN Classics I was looking for a retail product.
For most of these, monitoring battery SOC is more important than monitoring PVs and controller throughput.

Another solution, for me anyway, on a single Classic site would be a local app style BM display using dashboard meters for SOC%, Voltage, +/- Amps.
Unfortunately the Local App's current display of battery SOC%, Ah and current flow , all squeezed into a top corner of the panel below the meters, is from a display viewpoint very subdued and insignificant (its really an afterthought)
An 'in your face' set of meters under title BATTERY MONITOR would be more user friendly
I would actually pay MN for such a BM display 

dgd