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Aircon Monitor

coxy123 · 2015-08-25 16:03:04

Hi All, Looking for a bit of advice really and a steer in the right direction. I'm trying to find info on monitoring usage from air con units in a domestic setting. How straight forward/what's involved from an electrical point of view and can a monitor be installed retrospectively - I've looked online but it's difficult to…

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25-08-2015 5:03pm

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coxy123

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Hi All,

Looking for a bit of advice really and a steer in the right direction. I'm trying to find info on monitoring usage from air con units in a domestic setting. How straight forward/what's involved from an electrical point of view and can a monitor be installed retrospectively - I've looked online but it's difficult to find info. on it. Thanks.

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#2 26-08-2015 9:40pm
Pete67

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If you can trace the supply back to the distribution board then it should be fairly easy to install a DIN rail mounting kWh meter dedicated to the aircon circuit.

Otherwise, a simple hour meter wired across the compressor motor supply will give you information on usage, from which you can estimate consumption.

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