Steve Sykes wrote:
>I am working on using rrdtool to log my water heater use. I have a
>one-wire sensor measuring current and wish to calculate the wattage and
>eventually the KWH used. The sensor reads from 0.09 for off and 3.36
>for 18 amps. I am reading the data into the logging screen but don't
>know how to scale it up so that it reads amps instead of volts.
RRD just stores <stuff>
I would suggest calculating power and then storing that. In <your
preferred flavour of shell> it would be as simple as :
>offset=0.09
>scale_in=3.36
>scale_actual=18
>volts=240
>
>reading=<some method by which you get the value>
>
>span=`echo "scale=3 ; ${scale_in} - ${offset}" | bc 2>/dev/null`
>
>current=`echo "scale=3 ; ${reading} - ${offset} / ${span} *
>${scale_actual}" | bc 2>/dev/null`
>
>power=`echo "scale=3 ; ${current} * ${volts}" | bc 2>/dev/null`
>
>rrdtool update <some file> n:${power}
And you can of course combine all the maths into one formula and one
call to bc - I've shown it as separate calls to make it clearer how
you work out the power. Of course, you'll notice that power depends
on voltage, and that varies - so your power calculation will be a
little out, basically as accurate as your best estimate of an average
supply voltage.
At least with a heater you can ignore power factor - I'm assuming
it's just one or more immersion heaters and hence a resistive load.
These clip on "energy monitors" that lecky suppliers seems to be
giving away are even worse - not only do they not account for voltage
variations, but they cannot measure power factor which can lead to
some whacky results from them.
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