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The TED system is a whole house power, voltage, and energy monitoring system. TED is derived from The Energy Detective. The older system was identified as 1000 and the new one 5000. The 1000 system did not provide VA output or PF and thus PF was not available. The 5000 system includes VA and from this PF is calculated.
There are both quality and bug problems in both systems. If you understand the structure of the systems a number of the problems or issues can be solved or avoided.
I have made effective use of the 1000 system. You can see some of my results at
http://www.beta-a2.com/energy.html . The data for the plots came from my home and sampled at the rate of once per second. Even though the plot 9.8.2.2 encompasses 24 hours it still shows 1 second results. The spikes are motor startup power. These are mostly freezers, refrigerator, and furnace blower.
Last week, while we still had power problems, I used TED to monitor the voltage at my son's shop. There apparently was about 3 addition miles of cable added to the primary of one of our phases to get power from a different substation. With hot weather last week one saw a smooth variation of voltage on the bad phase from a high of about 116 V around 4 in the morning to a low about 105 V in the middle of the afternoon. No particular spike variations other than internally generated by our big laser printer.
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