Re: Measuring my electricity consumption.....

["Davey" <DB1001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh no you don't.
It's non ferrous....

Of course I wouldn't know who told me that  ;->


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Measuring my electricity consumption.....


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> If you put a very large magnet on the wizzy wheel, you get free
electricity.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Fidell" <james@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Measuring my electricity consumption.....
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> > Quoting darren_karp2001 (darren@xxxxxxx):
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> >> I've been on to http://pietje.com/stroom.asp and
would love the idea
> >> of monitoring my usage. My lecky meter doesn't have a
flashing LED.
> >> Is there any gizmo (X10 or similar) that I could use?
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> > I've been thinking about this, too.
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> > The newest digital meters I've seen (we had one installed in a
house we
> > renovated a couple of years back, and there was one in a new
house we
> > rented whilst we were house-hunting) have had a little flashing
LED.
> > They also had a breaker built in, which makes for nice easy
isolation of
> > the consumer unit if you need to play with it. I don't know if
there's
> > any way to persuade the electricity board to swap the meter
though.
> >
> > Here we have an old "whizzy wheel" (at least, ours
whizzes :) meter.
> > I've been wondering if it might not still be possible to use a
similar
> > method to count the number of times the black marker on the edge
of the
> > wheel passes.  AFAIR, 166 and 2/3 rotations of this wheel is
1KWh.
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> > The other alternative that seems much more work is to put a
webcam in
> > front of the meter and take pictures of the read-out reguarly,
running
> > the results through an OCR system to get the digits.
> >
> > The obvious problem with both of these is that they need light to
work.
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> > Hunting around on the web very briefly leads me to these:
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> >  http://tinyurl.com/5fvpy
> >  http://www.emetco.co.uk/Shop-2.asp
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> > which look promising.  Could they be wired in series with the
existing
> > meter, I wonder?
> >
> > James
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