In the planning stages for a new Solar Panel and planning to get SEGMeter to monitor where our solar energy is applied.

Looking at our current fuse box I notice a number of multiphase circuits.  Is there a way to monitor these without each using multiple SEGMeter input channels ?

Eg the Air Conditioner is a 3 phase system and has seems to have three different circuits.  Should the Electrician expect to find a single consolidated cable I can match to a single Segmeter input, or will this require three individual inputs ? (FYI at this stage I would like to monitor the AC as a Single unit, not looking to separate compressor from condenser.

Similarly for the main feed to the house, there are three separate feeders, which our current Centimetre monitor separately. Is there a way I can track them together as a single input channel ?

Thanks

Hey,

its necessary to have a sensor on each phase and they cant all be bunched through one sensor because of the phase variation cancels the measurements resulting in a zero reading!

SEGmeter has code to allow phases to be grouped up together so the measurements for phase 1, 2, 3 etc can be summed as a single output.

Sam, @samotage

That makes sense.  

So, good news for you, now I'm very interested in the shiny new Red SEGMeter v2.  How far away is that optional expansion board and Dragino ?

It's very close, some tweaks for 2.1 which will be the beta!