Can I combine two CT sensors into one Vue port?

[currentdraw]

I remember seeing that people have done it, but can’t remember for Vue or another monitor.

They used some kind of audio jack, I believe.

The benefit would be to combine both legs of the 240v loads, especially unbalanced ones like driers, where multiplier does not work very well.

[ryanhoelzer]

that would definitely be worth a try and I wouldn’t think it would hurt anything.  An off the shelf audio splitter would put them in parallel.  I’d have to do a little research about reading amperage in parallel vs serial..

 

[scrambler]

Ideally what would be better and easier, would be to be able to group loads in the App, so that at the top level they would show as a single loads and total value.

Then have a down arrow next to the Group and when clicking on that, expand the group to show all the individual loads in the group.

Like that you can both see the group as a single load, but you can always access the details if needed (like for troubleshooting)

[Marty @Emporia]

@currentdraw since each of your legs are on a different phase, using an audio splitter to combine them would not provide accurate readings.   What some customers have done is use a audi0 splitter where both circuits are on the same phase of the panel.

Similar to how we allow for nesting of our SMART plugs under circuits, we are also going to allow for this function of individual circuits.

Thanks for your input!

Marty

 

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