Export Limiting and Inverter Control

Site export limiting is increasingly becoming part of every solar installation. In many locations that export limiting means limiting exports to zero.

Traditionally, the hardware required for this job has been an energy meter.  The role of the energy meter is to monitor the power flow on site and report that information back to the inverter.

CATCH Solar Relay is a bilingual device, it knows how to speak with many inverters, and the list is constantly growing.

Simply run two wires from CATCH Solar Relay to your inverter, and you no longer need an energy meter.

Load Control

Turning loads on and off with the rise and fall of solar production is the primary tool used to maximise self-consumption. Now the same device that is controlling your inverter can be controlling the site loads, no need for any other device.

​CATCH Solar Relay not only control the site loads, but it controls them exactly the way you wished they could be controlled.

Imagine you have a load you wanted to run only when solar exports exceed 3kW, but if the load does not run for at least 3 hours during the solar day you want it to run later in the day…well all this is possible, and much, much more.

CATCH Solar Relay gives the flexibility and simplicity that you would expect from a product designed and built for the solar industry. CATCH Solar Relay can be programmed to switch based on exported power, voltage, frequency, and time, or any combination of these.

Consumption Monitoring

Solar customers are happy when they can see their solar production, and energy consumption.   CATCH Solar Relay provides this.

CATCH Solar Relay is in control of the inverter and many of the loads, which means it is able to send detailed information back to the inverter’s very own monitoring platform, providing detailed, real-time data that your customers can use to better manage energy consumption patterns.

There is no additional hardware needed for the monitoring. If you install CATCH Solar Relay and connect it to the inverter, you get the real-time data on your inverter’s monitoring platform with no extra work.

Cloud Tethering allows us to Control loads and Inverters based on a
Wi-Fi signal rather than a CT reading.

Control loads anywhere based on conditions somewhere…

Why use Cloud Tethering?
Do you have a property with multiple loads spread out across your property?
Do you have multiple phases at your property?
Do you have multiple phases at your property?

Is the inverter installed nowhere near the meter point?

An example of this would be a farming property with one large array and multiple dwellings. Under this scenario each property could be kilometers apart, on the one NMI and have private Wi-Fi connections.

With Cloud Tethering and multiple CATCH Power Solar Relay’s we can control each properties individual hot water system or pumps to a feeder tank.

There are less extreme applications under this scenario, it could be a Pool Heater on a sub board. Or a solar system on a shed and loads at the home that need to be controlled that under normal circumstances we would not have been.

CATCH Solar Relay can now also be used as the energy meter for installations where the inverter is not installed near the metering point.