Solar power display application running, source code available

 I've written a Java application that displays the real-time and
historic data from my solar panel system here:
http://www.mike-land.com/Solar_Power/solar_power.html

Click on the big screen shot and follow the directions on the web
page.  If you get an exception during launch, you likely have an older
version of Java with a buggy Java Web Start.  Either search for a
different javaws.exe (on Windows) or javaws (on Linux) and point your
browser to it at startup, or download and install a newer version of
the Java runtime from Sun here http://www.java.com

I've also made the source code available under the GPL version 3
license for others to customize for their own systems, and hopefully
submit improvements back to me which I can include in future versions.

I hope you enjoy the program, and the description of my solar power
system.  I look forward to comments, suggestions and bug reports.

Mike Brown

  Wow, what a work of art!

Just a note, I read the display across the left of the graph ("Watts
3.500") as three-and-a-half watts at first, as I'm accustomed to
"3,500".  If it said, "3500" there would be no ambiguity for me nor
Europe.

The cloud map is an awesome touch!

 Thanks - it took me a couple of months of a few-hours-at-a-time work
to complete.

I'd like your opinion on the cloud map: There is actually an animated
cloud map available, showing the last hour and a half, but I wasn't
able to draw the green box on it for the system location.  Would you
prefer the animation below or the still image (updated every 15
minutes) with the green box?  Let me know here or at
mwbrown42@gmail.com.

http://sirocco.accuweather.com/sat_mosaic_400x300_public/vis/isavcac.gif

About the comma/period: Do you mean the AC Watts dial gauge in the
upper left?  If so, it does show the watts value with a comma, albeit
a very small one.  This is the default formatting used by the
JFreeChart components I used.  I'll see if there's a way to override
the default formatting to drop the comma and incorporate in the next
release.

 Hi,

For the comma/period, I meant the blue and red line graph at the
bottom.  However, my daughter, whose vision is still good, says it IS
a comma.  My bad.

As for the cloud map, in the spirit of open source, a moving map could
be useful to people in other parts of the country/world, so they can
estimate whether the clouds are coming or going.  Perhaps the wind
blows in a consistent direction in your location, so this wouldn't be
so useful.

You're doin' a helluva job, Brownie!  (sorry, couldn't resist)

 For the comma/period, I was thinking of the 2-color line graph at the
bottom.  However, my daughter tells me that it actually is a comma.
Still looks like a period to me.  Regardless, it's clear from context
what it is.

The moving cloud map could give an indication of upcoming weather,
especially if someone takes your open source and adapts it to their
region.  It's of less use in an area where everyone already knows, for
example, that the storms always come in from the same direction.

You're doin' a helluva job, Brownie!  (sorry, I bet you get that a
lot...)