so when I ordered the exciting new 2b, I figured I would either sell my flm02a or repurpose it.

but foolishy I did not think to add clamps to the order. so now there's a 2nd order, for a pair of flukso clamps - mostly out of loyalty to Bart FOR BEING AWESOME - but partially because current-transformers are apparently somehow ding-dong-impossible to find the the USA.

ok, not impossible -

sure, I can find plenty of them. most seem to be specialized accessories for handheld meters (think Fluke) and run >USD100 for a single clamp.

also, TED seems to be the more popular hardware for NA - a good friend has one, it seems to glitch a lot, this is why I went with flukso instead ;-)

TED sells their clamps only in pairs, rated 200A per pair, which makes sense - this is NA, after all. USD47 for the pair! except, the company are very VERY reluctant to publish specs on their clamps. their clamps plug into an intermediary black box (LITERAL BLACK BOX) and a couple guys have tried to map out the response on the TED clamps - specs vaguely similar to the flukso CTs, but not close enough.

when I google "flukso clamp voltage", one of the immediate top results is what we all know ~ "0-5V linear vs amperage". no such luck finding the equivalent info on the TED website or manual! thanks ted.

if anyone has sourced flukso-compatible CT clamps in North America, I'd appreciate hearing about it. at this point I have all I need, but a spare or two would not hurt.

right now my old 2a is either for sale, or going to monitor the 2 single-phase 120 lines on the gas heater and the hot water heater. there is ?something? here that does a very short 7-8kw(!) spike every night, and I am perplexed to figure out what it is!

Seeing as the minute tab isnt working on the new Flukso 2B yet I found a workaround.
This uses Sherlock's Android FluksoViz.apk.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11717494/FluksoViz.apk
and BlueStacks App Player for Windows (beta 1)
http://www.bluestacks.com/

Set up the app as normally done on an Android and away you go :)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/bazzslk230/MinuteTabonAndroid6_zpsd...

Negative for consumption. Goes to Positive when Solar kicks in :)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/bazzslk230/MinuteTabonAndroid1_zpsd...

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/bazzslk230/MinuteTabonAndroid16_zps...

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Any ideas?

my assumption has been that my antiquated NA/US water and gas meters would not support sensors - which means that so far I've been too lazy to even go check on the vendor/model numbers to verify.

but this morning I was inspired to go look, and the gas is Actaris Metris, and the water is Neptune with a 2-wire Schlumberger display. need to find out more, but this is slightly promising.

(a few cities in California have even been giving away free wireless internet via all new smart meter upgrades! lucky. don't think my town will be seeing that anytime soon)

the next step (the true dumb question) is - what is a reasonable maximum length for PWM? (obviously that depends on frequency, voltage, etc - signal too weak if wire too long, picking up radio interference or crosstalk if wire too long, etc)

I've tried to do some searching, but all I really found so far is that the "official" sensor cables are 2m. I think I'm not alone in this, 6' is not going to reach the meters in more than a few households.

for one thing, the local building code requires gas bulkhead, which is often where the meter also goes for convenience, to be a certain distance from electrical mains - so our gas meter is 8 feet from the mains, and also outside the house, while of course the flukso lives inside the house.

water meter is inside the house, but something like 25' or more from the electrics panel.

another thing that changes the whole nature of this question, at some point soon I'll be smiling when a shiny flukso v2b arrives - the 868mhz radio may be very useful getting around distances. at which point I can hack together my own rfm12b sensors of many crazy kinds*. (the outside gas meter could still be a problem though, our house is wrapped in foil, literally - all the insulation inside every single wall is metal-coated - even entirely below the foundation!)

*can flukso monitor the level of seed in the bird feeder? tell me the refrigerator temperature? inform me that the neighbors need to mow their lawn? rig a jeenode into a Watt's-Up meter and tell me about PV DC? sure, why not!!!

Ive been setting this new one up all night (Came with a Euro plug for Australia??)
Any way I can not get the Minute tab to report on the graph page.
Standard error message,
Error - The call for sensor Consumption experienced a timeout. You are probably not in the same local network as the FLM.
Been thru this many times on the original Flukso 2 and fixed it by changing an ip addy in the settings. The new one has a different interface that you cant play with..

Help..