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[Lafiro]

Originally Posted by CTScott

Agreed.

I got totally carried away with it and built my own system, based on the T.E.D. technology where I can measure the current draw on every circuit in our panels.

Please explain how you managed that please. Maybe a picture and how much all the equipment ended up costing you. Thanks

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by Lafiro

Please explain how you managed that please. Maybe a picture and how much all the equipment ended up costing you. Thanks

It's all behind my breaker panel, but I used 12 sets of their clip on current sensors (pictured below) fed into a circuit board which rectifies the low voltage AC signal from the probes into DC and then feeds them into ADCs of an array of microcontrollers. Each sensor can measure the current flow of one wire, so two are required for each 220 volt circuit and one for each 110 volt circuit. By the time all was said and done I dropped about $1000 on the project.



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