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6 Commissioning
Installation Manual
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6.3 Managing Small Plants with Sunny Explorer
6.3.1 Functions and Parameter Settings in Sunny Explorer
The following functions for plant management in Sunny Explorer are available:
• Overview of the plant status
• Graphic display of key plant data, device data and energy values
• Parameterisation of individual devices or an entire device class
• Simple diagnostics thanks to the display of faults and events
• Data export of inverter energy values and events in CSV format
• Piggy-Back update
You can change the following parameters in Sunny Explorer:
• Device name of the inverter
• Automatic IP configuration On/Off
• DNS-IP, gateway IP, IP address, subnet mask
• Webconnect function On/Off
• IEC 61850 configuration for plants in Italy up to 6 kW
6.3.2 Connecting to Sunny Explorer
Requirements:
☐ The plant must be commissioned (see Section 6.2).
☐ The inverter with Piggy-Back must be in feed-in operation.
Procedure:
1. Connect the computer to the router/network switch with a network cable.
2. Start Sunny Explorer and create a plant (see Sunny Explorer help).
