RE: Re: Electrisave Monitoring Device - A small review

["Craig" <craigc.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If your electric meter is a modern meter it should be able to read the
registers directly, using the IEC/FLAG interface. There is an interesting
circuit here, orginally from elektor:

http://tinyurl.com/7a7tu

'Many electricity meters installed since the mid 1980's are equipped with
an IEC1107 compliant optical interface. This gives a convenient method for
the Electricity Company to access all manner of information held in the
meter using a hand terminal. This simple project describes a neat IEC1107
to RS232 interface that together with some software allows a PC to talk
to the meter and retrieve energy consumption information.'



There is a comercial type probe available here:

http://www.abacuselectrics.com/probspec.htm


Have any list members experience of this type (IEC) of probe before, and
used for non-commercial/home use?

Seems it could be a more accurate method of measurement , as it accesses
the
meter directly.