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Live broadcast of PowerMC working with our Power Diverters
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The heading shows the power profile for the entire home.  Blue text is the power being used, green/red is the power flow to the grid, and yellow is the power from 2 generating sources (solar and battery inverters).  To achieve maximum ROI, the green/red numbers need to be as small as possible.

The left side shows how this is achieved by the PowerMC coordinating 9 loads or power diverters.  The first 2 diverters are a standard dehumidifier and fountain pump controlled by a home automation software following our free diverter protocol.  The rest of the diverters are either kits or add ons to standard loads which also follow our diverter protocol and require no home automation software.  You can watch how the PowerMC polls each diverter based on a user configurable priority list to allow each diverter to adjust its settings accordingly to the available power.

The graph on the right shows the results in the form of energy.  This Power vs Time graph is over a 6 hour period to illustrate how well the PowerMC is tracking.  Notice that from 7 am to 9 pm, the Export and Grid  energy spread is within 4%.  The lighter blue color is the result of the blue and yellow colors overlapping.  This means there is near zero wasted solar and near zero grid usage during the peak times,  This is the fastest way to improve your ROI.

Achieving near zero meter movement

To get an even faster ROI, use a grid tied inverter with AC coupled batteries. Not only will you be able to get both the export and grid usage spread to about 4% or less but you can also charge the batteries at night when the rates are cheaper and discharge the batteries when the rates are higher (energy arbitrage). The above is a live view of a system using our solution. This site has the following equipment:

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  • 5 kW SolarEdge solar system with optimizer and grid tied inverter

  • 20 kWh LiFePO4 DIY battery system

  • two 2kW grid tied Sun2000 inverters with our SunBeam remote control product

  • 3 kW AC charger with our soon to be available power diverter module (BatteryCharger1)

  • 1.5 kW AC charger with our soon to be available power diverter module (BatteryCharger2)

  • Our home power sensor with smart diversion control (PowerMC)

  • Three EV power diverters (SolarAdapter and SolarEVSE)

  • Two Mini split power diverters (IR-MiniSplit and MitSplit)

  • Dehumidifier and fountain power diversions using a commercially available home automation software​​ following our free diverter protocol

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Advantages of our power diverter ecosystem​

  • not cloud based

  • expand as needed, scalable

  • maximizes your existing system

  • can start as small as you want

  • DIY friendly

  • free use of our communication protocol using MQTT

  • interfaces to Home Automation Systems that support MQTT

  • very inexpensive

  • flexible

 

With PowerMC, you can turn just about any electric device* into a power diverter by following our license free interface protocol.  You can integrate this with no fees using your home automation software or purchase any one of our compatible power diverters with our interface protocol built in for EVs, mini-splits and battery chargers.

 

Note. An all-in-one solar inverter essentially has a built-in battery charger used as a rudimentary power diverter and some even have an EV charger as a power diverter.  However, those inverters usually have a closed architecture in which their internal protocols are not exposed meaning it’s difficult to add other devices.  Our PowerMC (under $100) allows you to create your own network of smart power diverters (up to 30) to give you the most flexibility.

 

*must be able to control your device via a home automation software that supports MQTT. 

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