Some words of warning ... This project post describes what I actually did to monitor household power. It is fairly technical and I am guessing it will only be of interest to you if you are contemplating something similar, or if you are me and … [Read more...]
Since the last post I've added monitoring of the electrical consumption of our hot water tank. The blue bars in the above chart show our total residential power consumption and the orange bars that are layered on top show what the hot water tank … [Read more...]
At the beginning of February I was surprised to discover that the shop was using more power daily than the earthship was! The shop is not used very much these days and should consume very little power. My initial inclination was to blame the … [Read more...]