{"id":80561,"date":"2024-01-08T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T00:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=80561"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:45:24","slug":"catch-solar-relay-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/catch-solar-relay-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Solar Relay in 2024: The Swiss Army Knife Of Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been a fan of the Aussie-developed Catch Solar Relay since it was first released in late 2020.<\/p>\n

In my original review in 2020, I explained<\/a> how the Catch relay greatly enhanced solar self-consumption from large appliances. Since then, the team at Catch Power have been relentlessly adding features to it. Today, I’ll outline the new tricks up its sleeve, including cloud transmission, flexible exports and a sneak peek into what’s ahead this year.<\/p>\n

#1 Cloud Transmission Of Real-Time Power Data<\/h2>\n

If you are lucky enough to have a property with space to roam and distances between buildings, you’ll already know that it can be challenging to put new solar on, especially if your network connection rules mandate flexible exports.<\/p>\n

It becomes complex if the ideal roof for solar panels<\/a> is some distance from the house. To export-limit the solar inverter, you must relay power consumption data between the remote building and the main residence. This can mean spending thousands of dollars on a trench or buying a fickle ‘wireless bridge’. Now, you may need to build a trench for the power cables anyway, but often, the power cables are already there, and the only missing link is a data cable.<\/p>\n

The Catch Solar Relay can measure real-time power at the switchboard on one property and relay that data via the cloud to the remote property where the inverter is. No data cable required.<\/p>\n

All new Australian grid-connected solar generation will soon need to be internet-connected and overseen by the network, so the need for data transmission of power data will only increase, and the Catch could save a lot of trenches.<\/p>\n

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Catch cloud tethering at work.<\/p><\/div>\n

#2 It Can Replace Your Inverter’s Smart Meter<\/h2>\n

The Catch Solar Relay can integrate into your solar power system instead of the proprietary “smart meter” that you already need to measure consumption and enable export limiting.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t buy #solar<\/a> without one of these!<\/p>\n

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