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We spent the weekend staying a the George Hotel in Castle Cary. Maria was making a bear with Gregory Gyllenship at a Bear Basics workshop. The hotel was comfortable and the food was good, but there was very little parking. Whilst Maria was at the course I went for a walk around the area. I then waited [...] The code I have been developing for my Current Cost meter updating to Pachube via Arduino with XPORT is ready for sharing. Succeeded today in remote wireless programming a Funnel IO Arduino clone. I had previously followed the instructions from LadyAda and got a very flaky program load – particularly with large files. Now following the Funnel IO route I have a reliable and solid way of remotely programming the board. I am using the Arduino IDE to [...] Built to circuit and connected it all up. Bluetacked reed switch to meter and board + cc dev board + 2 AA batteries into small container. CurrentCost meter connect to Pachube via Arduino. In order to try and get some idea of energy usage and comparison with the electricity usage I am logging KW. The calculations [...] When the switch opens the falling edge will cause a negative pulse on the 4013 input. The diode removes that negative pulse. Input to 4013 without diode – one pulse (on/off) – zero volts is the centre line. The signal goes negative to minus 1.44 volts. Positive pulse comes from direct connection to +3 volts, negative [...] Here is the final circuit I will use, the resistor and capacitor values give a time constant of about 0.5 sec – I’m sure many other values would work but I have these ones in my box. This is the CurrentCost development board. Note the 10 pin programming header – the leftmost pins are at 0V the rightmost at the positive supply voltage. I have attached a wire to the anode of the led. This is my gas meter – there is a cut out at the bottom right of [...] @MartinDix from CurrentCost kindly sent me a dev board so I could interface other feeds to the CurrentCost meter. After some experimentation this is the circuit I intend to use. I have not yet fully finalised values of components but it seems to work pretty well on the breadboard. Note my dev board is version [...] http://www.classic-sailing.co.uk/start-port/swansea Purchased a Current Cost CC128 meter and it arrived yesterday. No problem getting it going and it is now connected to an Arduino with a XPORT Ethernet shield. I got NewSoftSerial reading from the CC128 at 57600 baud and controlling the XPORT at 19200 baud. I am logging the temperature and watts usage to Pachube [...] |
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