RE: Smart meters

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave_mclaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian,



You can read the flashing LED and convert this into a reading of power
used.



I built something like this for my apartment as I thought I was paying over
the odds on the price of the electricity. Using the flashing LED I was able
to determine the power usage throughout the day and do a running total of
the cost. Being in Rupiah you see it increment every pulse :o)



Here is what I built. Bit of an overkill but I had the box already sitting
around and just needed to write the code for it. It is Rabbit RCM3000 based
and has been working for about 10 months now without a hitch.



http://axoninstruments.biz/Services/Power_Monitor/power_monitor.html



If you are a dab hand at any programming you could build something like
this
around the .NET Microframework modules that are out there and have a nice
touch screen interface and network connection etc.



Good luck.



Dave.



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Brian Smith
Sent: 13 December 2011 04:08
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Smart meters





Hi Michael

There's an LED on the lecky meter but not the gas. Looks like I might have
been hoping for something that isn't available.

Cheers

Brian






[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



------------------------------------

<*> Join the Automated Home Forums
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/vbulletin/