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@ShieldSean don’t wait for your tank to die. Get it out of there and replace it with a heat pump water tank – we use the Rheem mentioned in the top post. Our hot water energy usage (previously had what was called an ‘efficient’ tank) went from a strong #2 (around $30/mo) to an also ran among things like our fridge (now using about $7/mo). The savings are crazy. There’s a fed tax rebate and lots of power companies offer rebates as well. Our ROI time was more or less a year with the rebates. The warranty on the Rheem is 10 years. Do it. Don’t wait.
March 12, 2021 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Graph of Total Usage (with Solar Net Metering) #7131 Report AbusedheatherlyMemberJust chiming in to give my support for graphing ‘total usage’. Would be nice to see to keep track of conservation measures.
dheatherlyMemberI think what you’re seeing is a rounding error. I have solar as well – so see this screen often. Total usage is what your house is currently using – in your case 6.216kW. Solar is what your array is providing – 3.639kW. And Main is what the net power usage is – so if you have net metering – what is or isn’t going back to the grid – in your case you’re using 2.576kW of grid power. If the Main number goes negative then that’s what’s going back to the grid. I say rounding error as 3.639 (solar) +2.576 (grid) is 6.215 (close to your 6.216 reading).
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November 20, 2020 at 1:24 am in reply to: 240V (double-wide breaker) installation? #6591 Report AbusedheatherlyMemberAn added bit of info – when the dryer isn’t running my balance is around .200-.300. / second. When the dryer is running but not heating the balance drops to around .030/s. when the heating element kicked in (as evidenced by an increase in energy usage) the balance energy drops into negative territory (like around -.030/s). Is this a factor of accuracy error or is using a 2.0 multiplier on this (or some other 240v circuit) not ideal?
November 20, 2020 at 12:48 am in reply to: 240V (double-wide breaker) installation? #6590 Report AbusedheatherlyMemberHopefully a quick easy question. Switched over from gen 1 to gen 2 so going through the sensor allocation again. Attached one sensor to one of the wires coming from a 240v breaker for my dryer. Noticed later the dryer was running but emporia wasn’t tracking the energy draw on that sensor. I then switched it to the other wire on that same breaker and all is good (using 2x multiplier). Why is that?
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