Category Archives: Home Energy Monitor

ADE7763 comments

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

I have received a bunch of comments on the ADE7763 home power monitor project. I will try to address then in the next few days with a special post. Edit: I elected to reply to each with a unique comment.

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Overdue system diagram for power monitor

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Here is the system diagram (pdf format) for my power monitor. It is currently version 1.0. I reserve the right to update it as I learn more! I am alos working on a detailed paper that describes the whole system. SystemDiagram

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The Eagle has landed

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

I got in my shipment of spare parts to replace the one I smoked. After replacing the part, I ran a bunch of tests and let it run for 24 hours without any noticeable issues. So, its is time to … Continue reading →

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Smoke

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Over the weekend I got the new power monitior system put down on a breadboard. I am using one Arduino and one ADE7763 on a “motherboard”. On small daughter boards I am putting down a small PIC processor and an … Continue reading →

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Power Monitor redesign

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Over the last week or so, I have been side tracked by breaking dishwashers and clothes washing machines. But I have had some time to work on the redesign of the Power Monitor. Due to costs, I decided to give … Continue reading →

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Sticker shock

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

I started making a bill of materials (BOM) for the power monitor and realized that each node was likely to cost $30 or more.  With 30 nodes to make, I am looking at a $900 in parts. Perhaps I need … Continue reading →

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Design pretty much done with design!

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

I got a good chunk of time in the lab this weekend to pretty much nail down the design for the Power Monitor. I now have two sensor nodes on breadboards connected to an Arduino reporting data back to a … Continue reading →

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Programming PICs

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

Last few evenings I have had a few minutes to start programming my 16F627A PIC. So far I have been sucessful in reading and writting IO pins and using the external interrupt. Although my PIC does not support the debugger, … Continue reading →

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A few steps forward

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

This weekend I was able to spend some time in the lab. I got the Arduino to ADE7763 interface cleaned up and working using the hardware SPI peripheral. This greatly increases the speed that I can access ADE registers. I … Continue reading →

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2 Steps back 2 steps forward over 1 week

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Skye Sweeney

I tried to migrate the ADE7763 chip from bit-banged SPI to the HW peripheral in the Arduino. Should have been easy right?

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