Installation Manual

6 Commissioning SMA America, LLC
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6.3 Managing Small-Scale PV Plants with Sunny Explorer
6.3.1 Functions and Parameter Settings in Sunny Explorer
The following functions for small-scale PV plant management in Sunny Explorer are available:
• Overview of the status of the small-scale PV plant
• Graphic display of key plant data, device data and energy values
• Parameterization of individual devices or an entire device class
• Simple diagnostics thanks to 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
6.3.2 Creating a Small-Scale PV Plant in Sunny Explorer
Requirements:
☐ The small-scale PV plant must be commissioned (see Section6.2, page31).
☐ The inverter with Piggy-Back must be in feed-in operation.
☐ Sunny Explorer must be installed on the computer (see Section2.5 "Supported Products",
page13).
Procedure:
1. Connect the computer to the router/network switch of the small-scale PV plant using a network
cable.
2. If you have used the SMA Connection Assist for the static network configuration, ensure that the
SMA Connection Assist has ended.
3. Start Sunny Explorer and create a Speedwire plant for the small-scale PV plant in
Sunny Explorer (see Sunny Explorer help).