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Posted By: Niko Power monitoring - 10/20/06 02:53 AM
Who would you use or call to monitor and record power consumption?

I looked in the yellow pages and can not come up with anyhting.

Thanks.
edward
Posted By: gfretwell Re: Power monitoring - 10/20/06 05:25 AM
Hialiah Meter sells refurbed watt hour meters pretty cheap, $20 or less.
It's hard to beat what the PoCo used to bill you.
Posted By: RODALCO Re: Power monitoring - 10/20/06 06:38 AM
Your best bet is to get a secondhand POCO meter as already suggested and use it as a check meter on the circuit concerned.

Also you can look on Ebay where they are sold for around US $15. + postage.
Posted By: e57 Re: Power monitoring - 10/20/06 08:03 AM
Power consumption? KwHours? Get the dreaded E-mon D-mon. Landlords love 'em, tenents loath them..... Use tamper-proof screws. [Linked Image]

Demand/quality monitoring, you can do short term rental of logging units, or purchase/lease for long term. You'll have call around in your area, but there are those on the internet.
Posted By: Niko Re: Power monitoring - 10/20/06 01:32 PM
Thank you for your input.

Edward
Posted By: gfretwell Re: Power monitoring - 10/20/06 04:05 PM
http://www.hialeahmeter.com/spwm.html

$16.45 but you will need to come up with an old meter base
Posted By: Almost Fried Re: Power monitoring - 10/21/06 03:45 PM
If this is a commercial setting, you need to also figure in the demand as this can be a significant part of the billing. The meters usually sense the largest demand over a 15 min. period and are reset by the meter reader each month. Then the demand clause of the rate structure tells you how much you pay. There is usually something called a "ratchet clause" so that wintertime demand gets close to July & Aug. HVAC equipment demand.
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