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    Will this work? temp and power monitor

    I have a Fluke 43B just to test that point. I measured a number of devices in my house, and as I expected, with a "residential" load, the PF never dropped below 0.97. With that being the case, for this adventure I will ignore the PF. Being 3% or closer to my "meter" reading is good enough for...
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    Will this work? temp and power monitor

    Thanks for you many replies. I haven't had time to reply to all of them, but yes - the objective is to monitor the power at a gross level. My voltage is pretty steady. I have a meter that will measure power factor, and it rarely drops at all. No big motors in my house. I want to zero in on the...
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    Will this work? temp and power monitor

    I'm working on a project to monitor temps and KWH's. Peter Anderson makes a nice kit, that has optoisolators going to a pre-programmed PIC processor. http://www.phanderson.com/iom142/iom142.html. I plan to use a bunch of DS18s20's for the temps, and then some small CT's for power. The CT's...
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