Originally Posted by
Roger Feeley
The house we built on our Daughter and SIL's property is driven by a 125A breaker in the main house. I have an Energy Detective on the input to our breaker box. I use that to figure our share of the electricity. It works fine.
There's a guy down the street who's brother runs the residential solar program at DOE so he has every energy saving gizmo that you can imagine. He uses Sense which has way more smarts than my Energy Detective. He likes it a lot.
Not to hijack this thread, but it's interesting looking at the Sense website and reviews. I have Curb Energy sensors on my home. These have individual sensors attached to each circuit breaker that I specified, so I can know exactly how much energy they are using. It doesn't need the AI to figure it out, like the Sense does, and reports it on a web app. I initially got it to know how much battery capacity I would need in a blackout scenario with a hurricane. The information was interesting. I think it was more in the $500 range, as opposed to the Sense $399 range. And it's only on one circuit panel. I'd imagine additional sensors would add more cost as well. But the Sense monitor, does look interesting, but can take months to identify devices using the power. Everyone seems to complain it's too slow to initially identify appliances.
Anyway, don't want to hijack, but energy monitoring is interesting, and absolutely could save you money if used wisely.
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