Setting Up Your Inverter
For the installation you will need:
The Enasolar Inverter Installation Manual
A USB to miniature-USB cable (for connecting your PC into the Inverter)
A Windows PC connected to the internet
A SPLASH Monitoring STREAMBox
CAT5 or CAT6 cables to connect the Inverter(s) and STREAMbox to the router / network
STEP 1 - Introduction to IP addresses
(NOTE if you understand IP addresses skip Step 1 and go straight to Step 2 -Setup Options).
The STREAMbox uses IP addresses to communicate with your router and each of your inverters. All devices on a
network must have a unique IP address otherwise there will be a conflict when trying to communicate between devices.
An IP address looks like: 192.168.1.13 wher
e each of the numbers between the dots is known as an “octet”. IP
Addresses always consist of four octets.
Most devices on a domestic network, such as your PC and laptop, ask the router to give them a unique IP address
when they first connect to the netwo
rk. Most domestic routers will issue what is known as a “class C” address, where
the first three octets (
“192.168.1” in our example) are known as the “network address” and the fourth octet (“.13” in our
example) is known as the “device address”. All addresses issued by the router (known as DHCP allocated addresses)
will have the same “network address” but a unique “device address” between 1 and 254, depending on your router’s
DHCP range. Unfortunately there is no standard DHCP range and this varies between router manufacturers, but in our
experience the range rarely extends beyond device address 200. So, in other words, when your PC asks for a DHCP
allocated address from your router you will usually be allocated an address between 2 and 200 leaving the range
between 201 and 253 to be allocated manually (we avoid using 1 and 254 because the router itself is often allocated
one of these address).
When one master device, such as the STREAMBox, needs to interrogate one or more slave devices, such as an
inverter, the slave devices are often manually given a fixed IP address by the installer or user. This fixed IP address
must be outside the router’s DHCP range, so as not to conflict with router issued addresses, and of course it must be
unique.
