Category: Energy Monitors

• Our new energy monitor

  Mar 23, 2014

  

  The setup

  As you can see in the photo above, we have 2 new eGauges. Each monitors up to 12 circuits, for a total of 24. When you count 2 lines in, solar and several circuits that have double breakers pulling unbalanced loads, that ends up covering 20 individual things we can now monitor. We were previously monitoring only 7 circuits plus solar and power from the utility.

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• Cruise control for the home

  Apr 22, 2012

  Drivers and pilots make use of technologies that make their life easier and increase energy savings, why not home owners?

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• Our new wireless energy monitor

  Mar 16, 2012

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  We were excited to see our new eMonitor 4 from Powerhouse Dynamics arrive Wednesday. We purchased it through EnergyCircle. Sage, the rep at EnergyCircle, said it would ship first thing in the week and he wasn’t kidding. For more info see our previous post, Power monitoring – lessons learned.

  The installation was very easy. The setup had a few kinks.

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• Power monitoring - lessons learned

  Mar 7, 2012

  In January we purchased a TED5000 (The Energy Detective, 5000 series) to more accurately monitor our power usage and generation over the year. We had some intermittent problems getting it to work dependably. Eventually we were able to get it stabilized after adding an inline noise filter. Noise in this case is signal noise which can be caused by any electrical gadget plugged into a socket. All seemed well for a while and we got a great month’s worth of data for February. Then strangely TED stopped working shortly after exporting the February data, and we didn’t notice it till yesterday. Now we’ve lost 7 days of data and it still isn’t working.

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