Installation

Questions about installing and configuring a Fluksometer.

Another problem with 3 phase measuring (figures too low)

I recently installed a FLM2. I have a 3 phase installation (belgium) and 3 clamps attached on the 3 phases (checked by my electrician and according to him right attached).
Configuration FLM: 3 phases - 3 clamps 50 A - 230V
Connection clamps in serie (so no wires on port 3): see attached photos

Problem: the measuring is much too low. For instance: yesterday i measured 8,018 kWh on the FLM while the official company meter indicates a consumption of 13,430 kWh.

What can be wrong here?

Thx for the help.
Joost

Problem with Water Sensor In Flukso V2B

I just added to my Flukso V2b a water pulse sensor number 3 to my two other pulse existing electricity sensors. I set the clamp ports number to 1 so all the other ports 2-5 are pulse ports.

Water Pulse Sensor 3 http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b503/Molari1/WaterSensor3_zps270f5f9...
Solar Production Pulse Sensor 4 http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b503/Molari1/SolarProductionSensor4_...
Home Usage Pulse Sensor 5 http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b503/Molari1/HomeUsageSensor5_zpsb2d...

The syslog below shows that the Flukso is receiving the pulses from the water sensor but I cannot see the pulses in the Dash nor in PVoutput. In the Dash I am receiving in Hourly and Daily display an error:
"Error - No water sensors to display. Please select another sensor type.
"The electricity sensors are working properly as I see it.

Syslog http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b503/Molari1/FluksoSyslog-HomeUsagea...

PVoutput Water Extended data http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b503/Molari1/PVoutputWaterExtendedda...

As I remember when I set up my Flukso in mid April and connected the electricity sensors to inputs 2 & 3 they did not work but when I switched them to outputs 4 & 5 they work properly. I am therefore wondering if my Flukso V2b is faulty or there is any other thing that I not setting right.
Tx

Sensor data on Flukso.net

Because i made the step to put solar panels i missing now 1 puls sensor intry on the FLM.
That's why i choose to delete temporary the temperature monitoring and connect to this sensor input the solar generation.
My question is: Once I re-enable the sensor, but now for a other purpose, shall the old sensor data on the Flukso website be deleted ?
edit:
I see now that's not the case !
I have to ask Bart to delete the whole data in the dash ?

How to monitor solar panels?

I'm looking to buy a Fluksometer both to measure energy usage and to monitor energy production from solar panels. For the consumption part, a power clamp from the shop should do, but what is the best way to monitor the solar panels?

I have a DIN rail kWh meter with pulse S0 output and I've read here that that is the best method for monitoring, but how do I link it to the fluksometer? I assume some additional sensor is required to count the LED's but I don't seem to find any in the shop here or in general webshops.. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Optical sensor for water meter - configuration

The optical sensor TCRT5000 works, but the results have surprised me. Just filled a bucket of water and the website shows I've used 489 liters. Somewhere this morning there's a spike of 14947 liter in a minute. Overnight I see spikes of 178 liter a minute. I'm sure there is no water used at night, the water meter has a maximum of 50 liter per minute. Something is wrong somewhere.

When I look at the sensor in action, I see a green light go on/off at every revolution of the little red/metal wheel that indicates one liter (Sensus 620). Sometimes the reflective part of the wheel stops right under the sensor, the green light stays on. When I look in syslog, I've got the idea that I might get two pulses each revolution. I just switched the constant for the sensor from 1 to 0.5 (should that have been 2 ?). Next to the wheel it says:
x0.0001 , but the liter counter (the most-right red digit of three digits) matches one revolution per liter.

I've hooked up the sensor to port 2 of my FLM02b. (D0 to +, Gnd to - )

The bucket is a good tip, looking at the blinking light is nice, but I'm looking for a way to debug this. Values like 14947 are way to big, so I'm not even close to the real water consumption.

I've started a mqtt-client to log the counter messages, that should give me a output-line per pulse (now 0.5 liter).

I've reseated the wires in the flukso, they look ok. Just filled the bucket with 5 liters and got 8 pulses. I must be doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what.

The graphs on the flukso website show periods of a constant flow of 1 liter a minute, that isn't happening according to the water meter.

So, any ideas ? Tweak the potentiometer on the sensor ? add another resistor in the power-wire ? shield the side of the optical sensor (its inside a cupboard) ? another port on the flukso ? another setting for the sensor (current clamp ports = 1, type = water, constant = 0.5) ? Just wait, the website will be ok in time ?