Enphase Microinverters

[garybixler]

Hi all

 

 

 

I am considering using the Enphase Microinverter for solar power production.

It uses power line communications to their Envoy Communications Gateway and was wondering if anyone has had experience with these units as to weather they may or may not interfere with Insteon or X-10 communications.

 

 

 

Thanks for any information.

Gary

[Mark Sanctuary]

There is a good chance it will be fine. INSTEON devices are watching for only their data and all else is rejected as noise, but if its continuous transition it could keep the noise circuits in INSTEON devices from responding to INSTEON communications. Need to find a white paper on the Envoy Communications in order to understand if the signal is similar in design and would even be heard by the INSTEON devices. Maybe contact someone over at that company they may know better than trying to research to much.

[garybixler]

Mark

 

Thanks for the info. I did send an email to Enphase but have not received a reply to date.

I did however find on a forum through an Internet search someone saying they had extensive X-10 installed and there was no problem. Still working at 99%. They also said that the Enphase uses 140 kHz for their power line communication. I have not found any other reference to that frequency.

 

Thanks

Gary