RE: Mains Current Montoring

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

It's not true current monitoring, but you'd get pretty close (i.e.
power) with something like this:
http://www.mollyology.com/ProjectsFlashingLEDCounter.php
It reads the flashes from the more modern type of electricity meter. I
used to have a spinning disk meter but complained it was noisy (it was!)
and it got replaced with the newer style.

HTH,

Tim.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Lowe>
> Hi All
>
> After seeing Mark's link (Large Building Control), and the
> fancy graphs on those tools to see mains load, it got me
> thinking.  Has anyone seen a device which I speculate may
> have a CT and something useful like an ethernet port which I
> can clamp around the mains incoming without interfering with
> it, and then pull off my load in amps?  It's what you see on
> fancy electricity meters in new houses where you can cycle
> the options and see load and what not.
>
> -Dan