Fluke Smft-1000 solar meter

[ulwur]

Cant wait for Dave to do a teardown of this!

https://youtu.be/yWmoDidYZ8Q

[floobydust]

USD $5,400 for the basic kit. CAD $8,100 for the SMFT-1000 Solar Tools PRO Kit 
"free 60-day demo version of TruTest. Purchase a software key to unlock the Lite or Advanced version." TruTest Lite CAD $405, TruTest Advanced CAD $675.
Good to know green means spend the green lol.
6xAA alkaline battery power "Battery Life >900 measurements at 1,000V/1MEG" {I think this must be using the insulation megger} but no other lifetime spec. could I find, i.e. how many hours.

For the price it should be able to do stand-alone datalogging. Let it record a sunrise/sunset and use BT or WiFi to download, instead of the IR cable.
The instructions are dumbed down too much, i.e. 3-phase inverter efficiency measurement didn't make much sense.  "On-location I-V curve results" but too simplified to really know what a person is doing. How many panels before death, the pic shows it on the HV DC bus and no way this baby is doing loading. You input the cell make/model from some database and it draws an I-V curve including the irradiance meter+cell temp. Or is it for one panel's worth?
I'm not impressed.

STM32F446ZET M4 512KB Flash and 128 KB RAM, external FLASH 128MB for saved results & calibration data.