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The Pentair EasyTouch Wireless Protocol: A Study in Proprietary Frustration

It is a system designed for pools and spas, but it frequently finds its way into the peripheral control scope of larger [grid-tied-vs-hybrid-solar](/blog/gri...

pentair easytouch control
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Battery Energy Storage Systems: Beyond the Marketing Brochure

The industry is currently obsessed with capacity degradation curves and round-trip efficiency, yet the most common failure mode isn't a cell chemistry issue—...

energy storage solutions
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Protocol Wars: Why Your SCADA Architecture is Likely Over-Engineered or Under-Protected

Conversely, we see critical infrastructure relying on Modbus polling loops that choke the moment a network broadcast storm hits, leading to stale data that o...

iec 61850 modbus
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The Illusion of Inertia: Grid Stability in a Low-Synchronous World

As we displace high-inertia, rotating-mass synchronous generators with inverter-based resources (IBR), we are fundamentally altering the frequency response c...

grid stability resilience
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The Architecture of Failure: Microgrid Design Reality Check

They focus on the "seamless transition" and "energy independence" while conveniently ignoring the fact that your point of common coupling (PCC) is a single p...

microgrid conceptual design
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Transformers vs. Neural Networks: A Reality Check for Power Systems Engineers

What they usually mean is that they want to feed a black-box model a pile of SCADA data and hope it spits out a setpoint that doesn't trigger a trip.

transformer neural network

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