Power Monitoring tools: a “Kill-a-Watt-+” on an Arduino
Report from Bear Kaufmann: A couple weeks ago, Trystan Lea, who runs OpenEnergyMonitor (http://openenergymonitor.org) came by and we worked on testing his system on our in house 10kw Power Pallet. The OpenEnergyMonitor is “a project to develop and build open source energy monitoring and analysis tools for energy efficiency and distributed renewable microgeneration.” The project is developed around the Arduino, thus will integrate nicely with our Arduino based Gasifier Control Unit. Trystan has some cool code and great explanations of the circuits on the site. We tested his system on the skid, monitoring 2 legs of current and voltage from……