Electricity Monitoring, Before The Meter

[Clark Martin]

If you whole house is running off the generator then there won’t enough current flowing to be reliable.  If some of the circuits are connected to the mains you should be able to sense that some how.

We haven’t lost power here on the San Francisco Peninsula.


Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway

> On Oct 11, 2019, at 1:12 PM, Scot <xtension at gunsmoke.com> wrote:
> 
> First it was Oroville Dam nearly bursting, then last year it was the 
> Camp Fire, and now it's PSPSs, the catchy acronym that PG&E, the local 
> utility, has given to the latest round of power blackouts.
> 
> I've got a generator that, so far at least, has been working great, but 
> I don't have an easy way to tell when the power comes back on, outside 
> of trudging out to the little shed where the electric meter sits to 
> look at the LCD display. I wonder if there is a way, maybe using a 
> current loop where the wires some into the meter box, of monitoring 
> current flow, and feeding that into a sensor of some sort that 
> XTension, or HomeKit, could detect. Anybody done that out there?
> 
> Anybody hacked a HomeKit sensor like we used to do with the X10 motion 
> sensors?