Re: [RE-wrenches] AC house monitoring

2015-12-11 Thread Jerry Shafer
My experiance says you get what you pay for. I used the TED system and its OK but not the caliber of the E Guage Jerry On Dec 11, 2015 8:51 PM, "Solar" wrote: > We just purchased an eguage system for our lab at the college. I've used > them many times for MN DNR pv systems I've installed and I re

Re: [RE-wrenches] AC house monitoring

2015-12-11 Thread Solar
We just purchased an eguage system for our lab at the college. I've used them many times for MN DNR pv systems I've installed and I really like them. The price range won't work what you're looking for however. I've looked into "the energy detective" system and they are closer to your price ran

Re: [RE-wrenches] AC house monitoring

2015-12-11 Thread William Miller
Friends: Here are two E-gauge systems--one on my home and one on a commercial client. Feel free to browse around. Theoretically you can't break anything without a password http://egauge15947.egaug.es/ http://egauge8265.egaug.es/ I like the systems. They are feature rich and consequently a bit

Re: [RE-wrenches] AC house monitoring

2015-12-11 Thread Jerry Shafer
E Gauge is what have used and is very programable and versetile Jerry On Dec 11, 2015 3:30 PM, "jay" wrote: > HI All. > > I’ve been getting a bunch of requests for better monitoring of AC > circuits, and I want to be able to understand some peoples loads better as > well. > This is for a full hou

[RE-wrenches] AC house monitoring

2015-12-11 Thread jay
HI All. I’ve been getting a bunch of requests for better monitoring of AC circuits, and I want to be able to understand some peoples loads better as well. This is for a full house 120v and 240v And individual circuits. I don’t need revenue grade. But looking for something that is easy to use,

[RE-wrenches] Batteries

2015-12-11 Thread Jerry Shafer
Wrenches, There has been allot of talk about batteries, i use allot of FLA and Edison type batteries. When we do an install i aways include a one gallon pump weed sprayer with distilled water, we cut the sprayer tip off and it is an easy and fast way to fill batteries, this is a cheap way too. Batt

[RE-wrenches] UPDATE: Odd battery problem - very low SG in only one cell

2015-12-11 Thread Dan Fink
Thanks again to everyone for the comments and suggestions both on and off list. I ended up having my class isolate and load test the suspect battery that had specific gravity so low on one cell that none of our instruments could even register it. Because this is a 24v series parallel battery bank

[RE-wrenches] Manuals the next generation

2015-12-11 Thread Dana
I woke up thinking of boiler & generator manual sets morning & what you get: The Installer's manual (that's us) that is full of what is important to us. ( this could have the schematics too) The Owner's manual that is fairly clear to 80-90% of home owners (that's mom level description) & full

Re: [RE-wrenches] Equipment manuals

2015-12-11 Thread Jerry Shafer
I will say i dont like dumbing down of tech manuals, law books are for lawyers. Tech manuals should be writen and designed for techs not be for DIY'ers. Every manufacture wants it so ease a monkey could do it and thats not right. I see the results of unqualified people that followed the manual and