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Remote reading electric meter
DavidA:
Andrew,
15 February 2011.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.d-i-y/spYM2jASMDo/45EZ5_wAZUoJ
Dave
No hiding place. :D
awemawson:
Yes it looks as though that was me, and only three years or so ago !
Every now and again I come across my postings from absolutely YONKS ago, when everything was text based, and no fancy GUI interfaces.
... who remembers dialling into Compuserve or any of the other similar offerings?
DavidA:
Compuserve , not me. I don't go that far back with internet. I do remember once trying to set up an FTP link to an electronics magazine I subscribed to; didn't work. At the time I couldn't get my head around FTP Commander.
Anyone here got the mathematical skills to calculate the odds in me and Andrew crossing on this other site ?
Back to the unit.
It no longer reads the power consumption. But a check shows the batteries to be very low; 1.05 Volt with negligible load. So I'll have to get a couple of new ones next time I'm in town.
My attitude to power consumption is nicely summed up in the account of Apollo 13's ill fated trip. I try to use the absolute minimum power whenever I can. After all, I'm paying for it.
This has raised a question.
We are having a water meter fitted. So I could save a bit by collecting rain water and using that to fill the toilet cisterns. But I will have to pump the water up from the butts to the cisterns.
The question becomes ' will it cost more to do this than it will to simply use the metered water ?
More measurement needed.
The other option is to have the water collection point higher than the toilets. But that won't be so easy to do. Not with water weighing 1 kilo per litre.
Dave.
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