Hi,
Does anyone have any experience with with products designed for informational metering of sub circuits? Application is for a storage facility where the owner wants to meter and back charge customers for electrical consumption (yes, allowed by PoCo as long as the rate is the same as theirs). Of course this can be done using standard meter bases but it takes a lot of space and will cost probably $500 per unit, and someone needs to read all of them manually. It seems the ideal solution would be some sort of device consisting of a) a donut CTs that can be placed over the feeder and b) a logger that can talk to a data network, or even something that does this at the panelboard.
So far the products I have looked at are either too complicated and expensive or are designed for household energy monitoring.
If anyone has any practical suggestions please let me know!
Thanks
Does anyone have any experience with with products designed for informational metering of sub circuits? Application is for a storage facility where the owner wants to meter and back charge customers for electrical consumption (yes, allowed by PoCo as long as the rate is the same as theirs). Of course this can be done using standard meter bases but it takes a lot of space and will cost probably $500 per unit, and someone needs to read all of them manually. It seems the ideal solution would be some sort of device consisting of a) a donut CTs that can be placed over the feeder and b) a logger that can talk to a data network, or even something that does this at the panelboard.
So far the products I have looked at are either too complicated and expensive or are designed for household energy monitoring.
If anyone has any practical suggestions please let me know!
Thanks