Anyone with PV-Sol Pro know how to download PhotoPlan?

[Paul Barker]

As I have a demo day coming up I decided out of my very meagre resources to buy PV-Sol Pro which previously I have not considered worth the expense. But I was hoping to have a good visual tool for this forthcoming event.

But there are a number of major shortcomings which I am just hoping that someone else here has overcome prior to me.

My biggest hurdle now is PhotoPlan.

In the email in which I was given the link to download my newly purchased product £407, there was this paragraph

"PhotoPlan
We recommend that you install both PhotoPlan and the PhotoPlan help video. Once this is complete you can then install the climate data package. Please be aware, if you wish to use PhotoPlan, that the download is at least 100MB and will be an intensive use of computer resources."

Obviosuly I have emailed them. The FAQ's are useless and the hlp file is a huge adobe document which l;ooks like a literal English translation of the mind of a German software Genius with no connections to the real world in Germany leyt alone the UK.

Other issues are geting reports to show the £ sign instead of the $.

If you want a recommendation for this software. As it stands today about a full days hard time spent trying to make it useable, I won't give you one.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I know that there is electricity inside computers, but apart from that I'm struggling to see the relevance....

 

[Paul Barker]

well I am presuming that some of the elctricians on here are PV registered and correct me if I am wrong but there isn't a PV arm to DIY not. Or is there?

I remain of course happy for moderators to move it if they feel it is inappropriate content for an Electrics UK section.

I was just wanting exposure to the people who may have the answer, but I do take on board your view. you are long standing well respected contributor here and I visit perhaps once a year. So you will know better.

 

[electronicsuk]

Good luck, buy you might get better responses on a forum aimed solely at PV installers. FWIW, my experience of most specialist software is that it's both expensive and counter-intuitive to use. You're generally better trying to figure things out yourself than read the user manual!