SMA Solar Technology AG Archiving Data on a SD Card
Technical Description SI5048-TB-TEN110340 83
11 Archiving Data on a SD Card
The Sunny Island can store firmware, parameters and measured data on a SD card, which must be
FAT-16-formatted and may have a maximum size of 2 GB (possible storage sizes are 32/64/128/
256/512 MB and 1 GB and 2 GB). Use the SD card included in delivery solely for the Sunny Island.
Do not save any multimedia data on the SD card.
File names are saved in 8.3 format and files with other designations are ignored.
After you have inserted the SD card into the card reader slot on your PC, you can search for the
respective drive in the Explorer (in Microsoft Windows). The following data are on this drive (here E:):
Example of a format
A valid 8.3 format is, for example, "M1111LOG.DAT".
8.3 is the "old" MS-DOS format with a file name that has a maximum of 8 figures before
and 3 figures after the dot.
Type of Memory Card
SMA Solar Technology recommends using SD cards manufactured by Transcend.
If you use a memory card from another manufacturer, check whether the card is FAT-16
formatted. If necessary, format the card. Be aware that data stored on the card will be lost.
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