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Re: Re: Measuring my electricity consumption.....




Have you got a part number for that?  I've googled but can't find any
clamp meters that have RS232 output....

Lee

> Somebody (else) asked about this earlier on Selfbuild, this is my
reply:
>
> It is simple to do - I put a portable clamp meter around one of the
> meter tails before it reaches the CU. Clamp meters normally work off a
> PP3 which would only last a day or so if left on all the time so
> instead I power it by a big 9V lead acid which lasts months. The
> output is good old RS232 into a PC that is on all the time and the
> meter comes with software which takes the data stream and writes it as
> a CSV file every 10 seconds.
>



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