CEC Inverter Database

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01 Mar 2012 19:35 #336 by pgilman
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There are two options for seeing the CEC inverter database parameters:

In SAM, you can use a text editor to open the .samlib file that stores the library parameters in SAM. The file is called SandiaInverters.samlib, and is in the SAM libraries folder ...\exelib\libraries, which is in the SAM installation folder (c:\SAM\2011.12.2 for the Windows version of SAM 2011.12.2).

Another option is the set of inverter test summaries that the CEC provides on the Go Solar California website. The data are provided in a separate PDF file for each inverter at:

www.gosolarcalifornia.org/equipment/inverter_tests/summaries/

Best regards,
Paul.

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08 Mar 2012 13:42 #337 by Benbi
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Thank you very much for this post. People who may be interested in having the database in a more practical xls format (one column for each property) can contact me (not sure I can upload this file on this website)

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09 Mar 2012 00:35 #338 by pgilman
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Please feel free to upload the file as an attachment to this discussion thread.

One of the items on our development To Do list is to improve the library editor so that it can export libraries as tables.

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Paul.

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02 Apr 2012 17:23 #339 by MySchizoBuddy
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the beta SAM version has an export option for the library

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03 Apr 2012 18:56 #340 by pgilman
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That's a good point -- The Library Editor's "Save as CSV" option saves the data in any of the SAM libraries to a text file with comma-separated data columns. That option is also available in SAM 2011.12.2.

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11 Nov 2013 13:53 #341 by MySchizoBuddy
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so the CEC inverters are inside the Sandia Inverters database? I thought Sandia had it's own database separate from CECs.

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