A typical residential 200A setup?

[derekg1023]

Hi Everyone,
I appreciate all the help I can get. I, like the rest would like to purchase a home energy monitoring system to further my home automation and smart home projects. No budget constraints, but I would like to keep it DIY and of course as cheap as possible, though. I was also interested in a wireless display that show actual real time usage that can be used concurrently with a historical program. But if the display is not possible then no big deal.

I plan on communicating via a hardwire Ethernet and was thinking about the Green Eye Monitor. I’m not sure exactly what the pulse counting is, but I believe it is for other aux meters like gas and water? If so, I definitely would be interested in monitoring a water meter in the same setup (no other pulses necessary). I’m not sure what single-phase or 3-phase installs are, but I would assume I have the average residential setup with a single breaker panel.

I’d like to monitor all circuits on the panel. Here is the current setup of the breaker panel:




Thanks for the help and all suggestions are welcome.
Derek

[Teken]

Hello Derek,

The Green Eye Monitor (GEM) will fit that bill perfectly for you. The GEM provides 32 energy monitoring channels, 8 1-wire temperature channels, and 4 pulse channels. All residential homes are single phase, and commercial settings are 3 phase, which the GEM supports as well.

The GEM does not offer a display but does have an internal web page to see all of the listed information during the set up process. Most users push / poll the data to either a on site data base server or to a third party hosting site like Smart Energy Groups (SEG).

Brultech also offers the Dash Box (DB) which is a mini Linux server which provides the end user the ability to store, capture, and display all aspects of the GEM data via any web browser.

Please send your requests to sales@brultech.com for pricing and final costs. This is a on going projects thread I created tracking my journey and many aspects of the devices I have written about: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=929

The project thread will also list alternate websites for more information about the GEM / Dash Box.

[derekg1023]

Thanks for the info Teken! What packages will I need in order to monitor the entire system? I know there is a deal for $499 they let you select two packages. I'd assume I would need Package A for the Main, and then I'm not exactly sure what package(s) I need in addition to that.

Thanks again!
Derek

[Teken]

Thanks for the info Teken! What packages will I need in order to monitor the entire system? I know there is a deal for $499 they let you select two packages. I'd assume I would need Package A for the Main, and then I'm not exactly sure what package(s) I need in addition to that.

Thanks again!
Derek

Package A would be the correct one for you in addition to any of the following: Package G, H, I. Please keep in mind you don't need to follow the package listing on the web site. Simply send a request for what ever CT's you require and the amounts.

Tammy at Brultech, will fill out the order for you accordingly to your needs and wishes. Most people are ordering the Micro 50's as they are higher tolerance of 1%. In my set up I simply ordered how many CT's for the appropriate breaker size.

In your case 1 Micro 50, 21 Mircro 40's would fit the bill along with the 2 Split 200 CT's. Please note you will require two CT's for those circuits that have / use a neutral.