Remote PV Data Part II [RE-wrenches]
Robert Warren
robertwarren at mail.com
Sat Oct 18 07:30:55 PDT 2003
If you get the utility company to upgrade your electric meter so that it
has the pulse generator that Jeff talked about, you can feed these
pulses to the digital input of a Sunnyboy Control Plus--it is a lot more
money than the regular Sunnyboy controller, but then you have all your
data in one place, with easy remote dialup & download into Excel so your
can make nice bar graphs, etc. You will need to include a 12 volt power
source to this circuit, as it is simply a dry contact pulse.
Instructions are in the Sunnyboy Control Plus book.
Robert Warren
J.R. Yago wrote:
>
>
> "This same customer now says he also wants to remotely monitor his kWh
> usage from the utility -- basically wants to electronically read his
> PG&E TOU meter and import the data into his PC."
>
>
> We have over 50 E-Mon electric Meters installed in Pennsylvania, New
> Jersey, and New York at clients that we remotely read kWh and kW from
> our Richmond Virginia office using a windows based PC by dial up
> phone. If we were at these locations we could read and input data
> directly with local direct wire from meter to computer without phone
> line.
>
> They also make an 8 channel model that you can mix and match other
> meters like water GPM, gas cu.ft., or other sub-meters. Figure around
> $800 with C.T.'s
>
> Here is a link:
>
> http://www.emon.com/html/econsingle_g.html
>
> TO read utility meter directly, request local utility to install a
> "pulse initiator" on their utility meter. This is just a "dry" switch
> contact that is calibrated to their meter with each closure "pulse"
> equal to a given number of kWh's. There is endless software like
> LabView available that will count these pulses and convert to any data
> format you want. This may be very low cost depending on utility you
> are dealing with.
>
>
> Jeff Yago
>
What will we do if there is another fuel shortage?
Did you know that there is a pollution free, completely
renewable fuel which you can use right now in your own car?
Don't replace the engine, replace the fuel.
Check out my website on making your own fuel:
http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com
robertwarren at mail.com
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