On 16 April 2010 13:23, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@???>wrote:
> On 16 April 2010 12:06, Roger Munford <rogermunford@???>
> wrote:
> >
> > When I eventually get my PV panels, I want to do some serious domestic
> > monitoring of energy in and out to see for myself whether this is a
> > viable contribution to the climate problem. This would probably be based
> > on something like the Sheeva plug or a using a Linksys router with Linux
> > providing I can get some data into them. So any advice on current
> > monitoring would be helpful.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>
> One of my neighbors is going to install PV panels soon, so I will find
> out from them how they get on with them.
>
> For monitoring, I was thinking of putting heat sensors in each room of
> the house, and also outside.
> I would then add sensors to find out when the heating was being
> automatically switched on and off.
> I should then be able to work out how efficiently my house was being
> heated.
> I could also possibly identify problems in my house insulation and be
> able to know for sure that I had improved it or not.
> I would like to sensors all to link to my central Linux box that could
> store all the data for me to later analyze.
>
> This would improve over the:
> 1) Leaving the airing cupboard door open wastes energy guesstimate.
>
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