Hi
Anyone who has used the ADE7755 with the Arduino? I need an shield that measures 220 VAC and 50 A.
Are there any plans to develop something similar in the future?
Best,
Mohamed
Hi
Anyone who has used the ADE7755 with the Arduino? I need an shield that measures 220 VAC and 50 A.
Are there any plans to develop something similar in the future?
Best,
Mohamed
I didn't want to create a new topic with basically the same title, so I thought I would tack it on here since it has to do with "Energy Monitoring". Sorry if this is considered improper etiquette, I was trying consolidate a topic.
I've been an IT person for 15 years, but I've never visited the world of electronics and circuitry this close. I'm just getting involved and I've come up with what I want to do for my first project...
I wish to monitor the general usage of electricity in my house. Optimally, I want to put a sensor on each line leaving the breaker box (combination of 15/20/etc amp lines) and transmit usage via wireless in every way possible to a "receiver" that would be connected to my PC which will run a program to takes those numbers and store them for analysis (database).
I have spent 2 days researching hardware and even these forums, but I am still not sure what I should be buying. Forum discussion normally went into different directions without actually answering the questions, and I can't tell if the hardware I'm looking at is all that I need.
Can someone help answer this -- using a 20amp line as an example (we'll just duplicate this for the other lines), what would I need to:
If I'm missing a step or a piece of equiptment, by all means -- add it in.
The wireless receiver would be getting data from more than one transmitter. Not only do we want to monitor lines coming out of the box, but we want to monitor individual sockets too for more granular information. This will be at a later stage, but I have to keep this in mind now so I don't use hardware that keeps me from just plugging another transmitter in (need plug-n-play design)
So I'm looking for a general shopping list of parts and pieces as I am starting from scratch with nothing but a screwdriver at hand and very little knowledge (but I know how to program in several languages really well).
I would be grateful for any help and/or education!
//Clint
I use an arduino to monitor the energy use of my home :
http://pluggy.is-a-geek.com/index.html
I gave up on trying to make sense of current and voltage to work out energy consumption. Works well with resistive loads, but when you get loads with a poor power factor and switch mode power supplies it becomes very difficult to get realistic figures. I now use sensors on the meters to get readings (works with the Gas meter too). The above system uses a small linux box as the brains linked to the arduino via USB to get the readings. When you're monitoring electric use, the 70 + watts used by an average desktop computer gets depressing running 24/7 .
A somewhat out of date writeup :