[Cooper2072]

Couple of photos sent to info@emporiaenergy.com!

[Cooper2072]

Jim – thanks for the feedback. I have an iOS phone and I did get the negative in. I did this by copying a minus sign from some other text and pasting it ahead of the number value. It works but still isn’t bidirectional (there are very small loads at night that now show a gen – not a big deal – I can account for this in the math). What I have found is if you are monitoring your solar, unless you turn the expansion pack input to a negative value, it will not allow the bidirectional of the main leads to work. The excess gen shows up as just more load on the main without a negative on the expansion pack input monitoring the solar.

[Cooper2072]

One additional comment – if the expansion pack modules could be bidirectional as well – I am monitoring the solar feed and it shows load and gen as positive values. At night the solar system shows a small load – then when it generates if shows as a the same positive value. Would make the energy accounting easier if it show the point it switches from load to gen net of load (with a negative value). Thanks!

[Cooper2072]

Hello – Ed from Ohio – Compared all the available monitors and went with emporia energy (main and expansion). I did the installation myself and it was easy. Love the detailed data available for download. We have to EVs and solar on the house and very cool to see how all this is influencing our home electric usage. We plan to put battery storage on in 2020 and will monitor that as well. I’ll post some product development ideas as I work in the electric power industry including DER. Thank you for developing this product. I have pictures of the install I can send along if interested. Take care.

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