Adjust low power filter limit

Emporia Energy Community Product Ideas Adjust low power filter limit

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      solidfunkin
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      I am seeing some individual circuits whose wattage is lingering right around the filtering point (see the info I grabbed from your website below).  This is causing the reported power to flicker between 0 (filtered) and just above the filter point (20W per your documentation, but for me it’s looking like 35W).  Would it be possible to add an app option to adjust and/or disable the filtering?  I understand the accuracy reduces as a given circuit uses low power, but I’d still like to see the values there.

      Thanks!

       

      “What are the limits of the Emporia sensors?
      Our sensors have physical limitations. Each 200A sensor is accurate with high resolution between 2A – 250A (240W – 30kW @ 120V). And each 50A sensor is accurate with high resolution between 0.17A – 63A (20W – 7500W). When you go below those ranges, the 200A sensors will report about 100-150W of noise and the 50A sensors will report about 10-20W of noise. However, when in range, the sensors can resolve differences as low as a handful of watts. The app filters out this noise so you’ll see no load when the sensors are below the threshold of 20 watts for 50A sensors and 90 watts for our 200A sensors. However, if you download the raw data, you will see the reported noise – giving a slight discrepancy between the app and the raw data.”

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      solidfunkin
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      solidfunkin
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      I attached a screenshot of the power ‘flickering’ between 0W and ~36W.  Really the power used is roughly steady, so it would be great if it was reported that way in the app, without having to export the data.

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      Marty @Emporia
      Emporia Staff

      Hello @solidfunkin,

      Thanks so much for your input and feedback around our monitoring floor of the 50A expansion circuits.   The floor for the 50A expansion circuits is actually 36 watts, not 20.   We will definitely update this on our documentation.

      As for a option to allow the customer to turn off/on, this is something we have considered before and at this time do not have that on our development roadmap.

      We are a small team, with limited resources and are currently focused on other pressing enhancements.  We appreciate your feedback and hope you understand that we’re working very hard to prioritize the many enhancements that have been requested.

      Thanks!

      Marty

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