Plot or history of balance?

[grahamk]

I’m not finding a way to plot balance. I have a mystery load someplace that runs about 7-8% of my total load with every circuit monitored. I am hoping to watch the “Balance” parameter to see if it lines up with anything happening at the house.  But there doesn’t seem to be a way to plot balance over time.

Am I missing something? Generally I am. 🙂

[yyzguy]

I don’t see any way either.

do you have any 220vac split phase circuits where you’re only measuring one phase and using the multiplier?  It’s common for some split phase circuits to be unbalanced (electric dryer is a common culprit because the drum uses just one of the hot lines)

Optionally, can  you move one of your lower useage  CTs to other circuits to try to locate the mystery?

 

 

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by yyzguy.

[grahamk]

Yeah, i think it is the 220v hot tub line, I put one CT on it before realizing that it uses the two legs differently. Kind of disappointing because i had to run extensions for the CTs out to my hot tub subpanel which was kind of a PITA and now I need to run another one.

[yyzguy]

I have a hot tub too.  The pump uses just one leg of the split phase.   The heater uses both.

Can you place the CTs at the main panel where they go to the sub panel?  That’s what I did.

 

[grahamk]

My spa panel has an additional circuit I’d like to measure separately – monitoring at the main is hot tub + additional circuit.  It would nice if the app allowed you to add or subtract CT values. That might be the eventual reason to inject the data into my homeseer home automation – I could do math on it there.

[sebxx]

This was submitted in the Product Idea, you should upvote it.

Graph for ‘Balance’

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