Hi,
2 years ago I installed Flukso V2 to measure 3 phase 400V accumulator heating at night + solar panel production during the day. Lucky for me Flukso doesn't make no difference between incoming or outgoing electricity. I can use the same graph for both measures. Anyway, because of issues with water supply I ordered a small Flukso sensor (+ 2 meter cable) compatible with a Kent V100 grenade watermeter.
Flukso wifi Port 1 2 3 : each phase of 400V accumulator heating + solar production on P2 P3
Pulse 4: free (was solar pulse)
Pulse 5: watermeter pulse
74f6a782307e5fcc92cf370f15dd3925 9725a3b1b77dacc0b8bbc97026c30579 electricity ph3
c955c7c23d98c60874c726548d57b36b f9280fff7bef2ee1563caef583783639 water free
80b2a9d3345fa270076fa389fc493ee8 ae5f5a062db94b9cbdc9caa905c72217 water water2
As a parameter I used a value of 10
In short 22 meter wire (2) connects pulse port and sensor.
I put the sensor into a small hole just under the analog meter type Kent v100 Grenade (XXXX,YYYYZ).
Now I get readings between 300 and 4,000 litres/day which is not possible. I also get the same value for hours and suddenly the value drops to 1/10 and stays there for another couple of hours.
I thought the readings should follow water consumption but strangely it just provide the same value for hours and than it jumps to another value. Only the day graphic shows the figures.
Has anybody similar experience with watermetering? Is the graph incorrect? Is the sensor faulty?
Any advice welcome.
Marc Verbeke, Belgium (OVL)
A Kent V100 typically has a meter constant of 0.5L/pulse. So you're a factor x20 off by using a meter constant of 10. Furthermore, it's quite normal to have this jerky behaviour in the water graph. Your water meter will be standing still most of the time and rotate only a couple of minutes per day.
Hi. mvrvma stands for Marc Verbeke.
I agree: 10 was >>>! I decreased it to 0.5 and saved it (all OK). Thanks for the advice.
I receive good graphs for electricity and watermetering when I leave http://192.168.255.1 connected. I use this url as the login IP-address when I change parameters or look at the log. When I disconnect this url than I receive again pieces of graphics from watersensormetering. Electricity is more or less as it was.
The PC I'm working with has 2 network connections: temp cable to 192.168.255.1 and wifi USB to a wifi router with a connection over a hub to INTERNET. I use a chrome browser to access www.flukso.net.
Again: both connectin open => seems Ok for water metering
cable to router and internet => not good for watersensor graphs. OK for electricity
The way thru the flukso to www.flukso.net & passthru to internet seems much better for my graphs than a normal internet connection.
Because of netflix streaming the cable internet goes thru an US DNS to access the US netflix database from a fake US address. Wifi has an automatic local DNS setup.
Currently I don't understand the reason of it.
I continue now with this problem. Maybe I should temp remove the US DNS setup?
Marc
doesn't Australia have Netflix now? maybe you could permanently remove your US DNS
Hi,
I have 2 network connections: w!fi (USB) and network cable.
I followed your advise and I removed the US DNS IP addresses.
Results: I receive now good stats from Flukso and access to the US netflix movie database is still valid.
BTW: I'm Belgian. We have a "Belgian" netflix database but I prefer the US one because of the type / age of available movies/series.
kr
Marc Verbeke