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Morningstar Solar Charge Controllers & Inverters

Is your system less-than-perfect? Ultimately, the health of your batteries will tell you that. But that’s a hard and expensive way to learn! Instead, learn how choosing the right solar charge controller up-front can make or break your off-grid system.

This webinar is conducted each month to introduce individuals to Morningstar and off-grid solar. It is also appropriate for experienced professionals who are looking for a refresher, or to have their pressing questions answered by one of our engineers. Attend this webinar to receive One NABCEP CE credit and  learn about:

  • Battery charging stages
  • Differences between PWM and MPPT controllers
  • Effects of oversizing PV arrays
  • Efficiency variations with output power
  • Electronic and environmental protections
  • The latest charge controller and off-grid inverter features, capabilities and accessories
  • Bluetooth mobile apps and communications
  • LiveView 2.0 dashboard for remote monitoring and interactive system setup, programming, and modification

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Past Recorded Webinars

The keys to success with lithium

This joint webinar involving M+H Power, genZ Battery, and Morningstar covers the “latest and safest” technologies, practices and products—what you need to know to achieve lithium success in your new projects, or when upgrading existing ones. Learn about:

  • Fundamental advantages of lithium storage technology
  • Battery Management Systems, communications, and integration considerations
  • Review of solar charging technologies
  • Pre-programmed settings for easy integration of a lithium-based storage systems

Making lithium the affordable option with KiloVault Battery and Morningstar

Watch this joint webinar between KiloVault and Morningstar to learn:

  • Advantages of lithium storage and specifically KiloVault’s Lithium Ferro-Phosphate (LFP)
    chemistry: longer cycle life with none of the safety, toxicity and sustainability issues found with other lithium types.
  • Review of solar charging technologies
  • KiloVault’s innovative line-up, from easily-deployable back-up and portable power units to the HAB wall-mounted integrated and scalable storage system
  • Monitoring and communications features including WiFi and Bluetooth
  • Pre-programmed settings for easy integration
  • And much more

Everything you need to know to design and size an off-grid telecom system

Industry expert Rob Rallo, of Solar System Services, joins the Morningstar team to present a thorough system sizing example for an off-grid telecom application. You’ll learn how to build a highly-reliable system that will stand the test of time, with emphasis on:

  • Load array and battery sizing calculations
  • Accounting for system losses, future expansion and worst-case scenarios
  • Choosing the right charge controller based on industry-standard IEEE 1562 recommendations
  • Software and insolation mapping resources available to design a better system

Calculating solar strings? Do the webinar instead of doing the math!

Why do things the old-fashioned way when we’ve done the homework for you? Especially if you have more productive things to do with your time than calculating off-grid solar string sizes for off-grid systems. Instead, invest an hour in Morningstar’s recorded webinar and learn to:

  • Figure out the optimum string sizing for your system—series, parallel configurations, load requirements, etc.
  • Find specifications for over 100,000 module brand SKU’s
  • Input custom module specifications
  • Access detailed power output results to find out how your module configuration will work with other components in your system
  • Learn the module configurations to avoid, because they could cause operational faults or even damage your charge controller.
  • Save and share output results with others

How to Avoid Load Overload

This recorded webinar addresses solar charge controller selection and the benefits of often overlooked load control features to maintain battery health and improve system reliability in critical remote power applications. You will learn about:

  • Reliable load operation – what does that mean to you exactly?
  • Loss of Load Probability – what’s your tolerance and how big is your wallet?
  • When and why loads should disconnect
  • “Problem” loads and how to handle them
  • System monitoring—what can load consumption tell you about what’s going on at your site
  • Planning larger systems, adding generators, and much more

System Monitoring with Morningstar Products and SNMP

View this recorded webinar to learn how select Morningstar products can be used with the Ethernet MeterBus Converter accessory (EMC-1) to enable SNMP.  You can monitor your solar power systems through the same popular software platforms that manage your network and IT equipment to:

  • Diagnose system health
  • Monitor the status of specific proprietary Morningstar product alarm and fault codes
  • Identify problems early to reduce or eliminate system downtime
  • Access powerful IT and network management tools including data analytics and graphic displays

Going lithium? Don’t go without the code

Morningstar and Lithionics have combined all our expertise into a new, one-hour webinar covering the advantages a UL-listed storage solution has for you and your customers. Don’t miss it! In it you’ll learn:

  • A quick review of solar charging technologies for advanced storage chemistries
  • Lithionics’ advantages with a modular, expandable and external BMS with NeverDie® technology
  • Qualifying lithium’s “total cost of ownership”
  • The custom settings you need for easily designing a new advanced storage system or upgrading an existing solar system
  • How to overcome “lithium anxiety” with your customers, with a safer system design

Solar-Powered Solutions for Commercial/Industrial Applications

Dave Putman of Two Explorers, LLC–a leading representative of NorthStar Batteries–joins the Morningstar Team to present solar-powered solutions for commercial/industrial applications. Viewers of this video will learn about:

  • The differences between energy storage chemistries, and NorthStar’s advantages in proven lead-acid battery chemistry
  • Review of solar charge controllers, and Morningstar’s advantages when paired with various storage formats
  • The pre-programmed settings you need for easily designing a commercial storage system, or upgrading an existing solar system
  • Morningstar’s Energy Storage Partner program

Do You Have Battery Challenges? Discover and Morningstar Have Your Solution

Learn how adding advanced storage solutions is just a click away in this fast-paced webinar presented by Morningstar and Discover Battery. You will learn:

  • The differences between energy storage chemistries, and Discover’s advantages in lithium with RUSH technology and SENTRY BMS design
  • Review of solar charging technologies, and Morningstar’s advantages when paired with advanced storage formats
  • The pre-programmed settings you need for easily designing a new advanced storage system, or upgrading an existing solar system
  • Working with Discover’s LYNK gateway to fully optimize lithium performance