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Hi guys,
I am hoping you might be able to help with a 1-wire inquiry.
I am an electrician in the UK & looking to build a house in the near future.
We would like to monitor our power consumption in more detail. We can buy lots of different monitors for checking up the houses electrical power consumption as a total amount & price, but we would like to break it down quite a bit more.
I will be wiring the house in radial circuits to help with automation & monitoring of consumption, & this will amount to around 50 separately fused circuits single phase 220/240 volt 50Hz.
Monitoring a single circuit is relatively inexpensive, but when it start to get to 50, it gets a little silly on price. I am hoping that there might be a way to fit 50 X $6.00 CT’s like the image bellow to some sort of 1-wire system without costing a fortune. Do you think this would this be possible?
We have seen lots of alternatives like z-wave plug that can monitor each appliance, but gets a very pricey with a lot of circuits.
What i wasn't sure about is if there was something as simple as the DS18s20 1-Wire Digital Thermometer system that could be used to monitor power consumption instead of temperature.
Hope you can throw some ideas & suggestions in.
Many thanks.
Chris.
PS. I am an electrician, & you know we are a bit dozy with electronics? lol. So be gentle.
I am hoping you might be able to help with a 1-wire inquiry.
I am an electrician in the UK & looking to build a house in the near future.
We would like to monitor our power consumption in more detail. We can buy lots of different monitors for checking up the houses electrical power consumption as a total amount & price, but we would like to break it down quite a bit more.
I will be wiring the house in radial circuits to help with automation & monitoring of consumption, & this will amount to around 50 separately fused circuits single phase 220/240 volt 50Hz.
Monitoring a single circuit is relatively inexpensive, but when it start to get to 50, it gets a little silly on price. I am hoping that there might be a way to fit 50 X $6.00 CT’s like the image bellow to some sort of 1-wire system without costing a fortune. Do you think this would this be possible?
We have seen lots of alternatives like z-wave plug that can monitor each appliance, but gets a very pricey with a lot of circuits.
What i wasn't sure about is if there was something as simple as the DS18s20 1-Wire Digital Thermometer system that could be used to monitor power consumption instead of temperature.
Hope you can throw some ideas & suggestions in.
Many thanks.
Chris.
PS. I am an electrician, & you know we are a bit dozy with electronics? lol. So be gentle.