In this course, we will learn about “How to download and Install the Solar Station Software”.

1. Download In order to download the software, open your browser and type: www.epsolarpv.com , now we are in EPEVER’s home page. Go to the “Technical support” menu, and navigate to “Download”. Click on “Software and App” tab, and download the “PC Software for the Solar Charge Controller” file. The file extension is “.rar”, so you will need to extract the file.

2. Installation After your download is completed, extract the file, and go into the folder. Open “PCTools” folder. Here you will find 3 subfolders. In order to install the solar station software, go to “PCsoftware”. Right click on “setup.exe”, and choose “Run as administrator”. Click “Next” on welcome page Choose your destination folder, and Click “Next” Click “Next” of confirmation page The software will now begin to install Click “Close”, when your installation is complete.

In order to run the software, you can double click on the software icon on your desktop, or open the start menu, and type “solar station Monitor” Now the software is running. Before using the software, we will need some configurations. Click close on the front window. We will later come back to this page, and will define some new stations. You may find an initial station. Settings in different systems might be different, according to number of the devices connected to your PC. So we will need to make sure, everything is adopted with our individual settings. Therefore, first, we remove the existing station, by right clicking on it. Click “Yes” on the appeared window And now the system is ready to “Connect the charge controller”. In next course, we will learn how to install the driver for the communication cable, and “how to communicate with the solar charge controller”.