General guidelines for this section (Start Here)
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:04 pm
Please use the following questions as a guideline before you post on this forum:
General Questions:
- Are there any budget constraints to work within?
- How do you plan on communicating with your router?
- What energy monitor you're considering purchasing? (if known)
- Do you plan on using pulse counting? And if so, how many?
- Is this a single-phase or 3-phase install? (If it's not your average residential install)
For determining current transformers:
Most if not all of the questions below can be answered by looking at your panel and the numbers on the circuit breaker switch.
- How many circuit breakers do you wish to monitor?
- What is the amperage of the above breakers?
- Are there any 2-pole breakers?
- Do any of the 2-pole breakers have no neutral? (This can reduce the amount of CTs needed)
- What is the amperage of your main breaker?
General Questions:
- Are there any budget constraints to work within?
- How do you plan on communicating with your router?
- What energy monitor you're considering purchasing? (if known)
- Do you plan on using pulse counting? And if so, how many?
- Is this a single-phase or 3-phase install? (If it's not your average residential install)
For determining current transformers:
Most if not all of the questions below can be answered by looking at your panel and the numbers on the circuit breaker switch.
- How many circuit breakers do you wish to monitor?
- What is the amperage of the above breakers?
- Are there any 2-pole breakers?
- Do any of the 2-pole breakers have no neutral? (This can reduce the amount of CTs needed)
- What is the amperage of your main breaker?