Installation

Questions about installing and configuring a Fluksometer.

Flukso and a myriad of items damaged by Lighting strike.

After a very close !!! lightning strike the power on one circuit went in our house.
After a bit of investigation...
ALL the SMOKE was emptied from the following....

1. Flukso
2. Ethernet wall plate and RJ45 plugs.
3. 16 way switch about 20m away.
4. Ethernet cables somewhere under the house (No continuity)
5. 2 x DIN rail energy meters used to supply SO (Pulse to the Flukso) mounted in switchboard.
6. 27" pc monitor
7. A few flashovers around the house at various plugs and sockets.
8. Maybe some more compromised things I am yet to discover!

I happened to have a 2nd hand Flukso I purchased off a member about 5 years ago. Took some work but finally got it going ready to put in the meter box along with some re wiring and 2x new pulse energy meters.
Added it to my Flukso account and removed the old one.
Used its Sensor and Token numbers and got it also showing in PVOUTPUT.org :)
The above work took about 2 full days of messing around ....
Could not get the same type of Pulse meters I originally had so I had to change the wiring layout in the switchboard. Lots of trial and error to get the correct Consumption and Solar data.

I tracked what I believe was the reason the lightning tracked thru my place and took out the stuff it did.
I had a pulse magnetic reed in my water meter 30m down the front garden. I believe the lightning used the cat5 cable laid into the garden beds to have a look into my place :)

Looking for another cheap spare now ;)
Note: I use 9v on my Flukso now. I think the original 12v supply was what compromises the early builds.

Deprecated?

Hi all,

Is this project still alive? Or has it been silently deprecated?

Thanks,
Nico.

Free FLM02A plus power clamp available

My working FLM02A is not in use anymore, but may be of interest for anybody who wants to pick it up in Rotterdam or pay the shipping cost. I cannot just put it in the garbage and hope somebody can use it.

Pulse Width / Gap and Ratio

following on from this thread end of page 1

https://www.flukso.net/content/pulse-output-100impkwh

I ended up with a 5000 pulse/kwh setting and pulse width of 30ms

That has worked fine for me until now.

I have an electric vehicle and also get free power between 11:00-14:00 so can consume over 25kwh

im not 100% sure how to work out the max kWh based on the pulse rate, pulse width and the pulse gap

Based on a pulse rate of 5000
pulse width of 30ms
I get a max of 12kwh? using a formula I created with data below
but its more like I get to about 20kwh before my readings start playing up (guessing im getting overlap) and its reads as no power.

I have set the pulse width to 20ms so I should get a little more before I get overlap and the formula gets it to 18kwh...
also not sure how the pulse gap and duty cycle fits into this?

I will drop my pulse rate of 5000 down if I have to but trying to work out my formula and make sure its correct and how I can somehow get 20kwh from what I have worked out to be 12kwh.
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 "1 pulse per Wh (1000imp/kWh) => @30ms (50% duty cycle, so also gap at least 30ms - the "window" in which the next pulse may occur) you can detect 1/.06 = 16,67 Wh/sec equiv to 60 kWh (which should be sufficient ;-)) - with 150ms it would be "just" 1/.3 = 3,3 Wh/sec equiv to 12 kWh (which still should be sufficient); calculate for your actual pulses per unit - so with 150 ms you should be more than fine :-)"

Exchanged a FLM003E from my son. Replacing a broken FLM02E. Works fine. However.

I need a new userid with the same email adress. Server naming proc is refusing it.
Locally 192.168.255.1 and root /root I could get into local flukso and adapted the
necessary. Is there another way?Led 0 1 11 1 1 is ethernet without wifi and is OK. §Wifi WAN LAN Eth Beat power
But due to this change I got now Led 0 1 1 0 1 1. Lost ethernet and wifi.

Now all LED's are burning, except Wifi. I toggled 2-5 seconds to get Wifi in, but this doesn't work well. I also lost ethernet and get stuck with a login.
What should I do now to recover ?
Toggle 2-5 again?
fI need wiifi to access the flukso server.
???
Marc