Labs

A space to link through to the main development areas/research topics that we are working on, that may be forum discussions, blog posts and website pages:

Exploring use of tools for sustainable energy introduction page

http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/sustainable-energy

Solar PV to Immersion heater control

Forum topic: Mk2 PV Controller, with triac by calypso_rae

Forum topic: Mk2 PV Controller tools by calypso_rae

 

Single supply

Forum topic: Using one power supply IDEAS 

Blog post: IT WORKS: Single AC power supply + voltage sensing

3 Phase measurement

Good progress has been made recently on 3-phase measurement.

Robert Wall has written 3-phase emontx firmware that can be downloaded here: 

https://github.com/openenergymonitor/emonTxFirmware/tree/master/emonTx_CT123_3Phase_Voltage

and Pcunha has written a 1 to 3 Phase configurable firmware:

https://github.com/pcunha-lab/emonTxFirmware/tree/master/emonTx_Interrupts

See forum post here: http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/467

Blog post: 3 Phase AC monitoring

Forum topic: 3 Phases AC monitoring

Improving Mains AC measurement accuracy

Blog Post: High Accuracy Current Measurement Over a Wide Range

Hot water cylinder analysis

Blog post: Measuring the solar yield

Blog post: Measurement of heat loss in a hot water cylinder

Blog post: Measuring heat flux in and out of a hot water cylinder

Documentation in progress

Page: Energy monitoring application development challenges

Page: http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/sustainable-energy