Installing a Home Energy Monitor - The Emporia Vue2
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This has been really informational. A electrician just installed an Emporia branded EVSE today and was curious about their solar excess charging and came here to see how to install the Vue monitoring unit. Looks fairly simply and have enough courage to try it on my own. Thank you for this video!
Thanks for this informative video!
I just installed the 16 circuit version. I had to get real close to the Bir to install. I haven’t dressed it out yet since I wanted to check the install prior to closing the panel. It is working well for me. I plan on sticking the wifi antenna through a punch hole and it is only 4 feet to the wifi router.
This is very fascinating. Pinpointing every device is so cool. The mixed circuits makes me wonder if it’s a limiting factor considering our house has a Generac and solar panels. Besides the garage feed from a 100 amp breaker on the once “main” house panel but now the Generac breaker is the main I’ve been told.
In a split phase installation, I've read that you can monitor your 240v sub-panel with its 120v loads with just one sensor without in-app multipliers. You place the sensor in a phase wire, and pass the other phase wire in the opposite direction (anti-parallel) throught the same sensor. That way, individual currents add up in the reading as positive values. (If you place them parallel, currents cancel each other in 240v use). I can't really test it over here, as my country uses 3 phase transformers with 120° difference instead of split 180°, but the theory makes sense! You could give it a try :)
There's only room for a single wire to pass through the current sensor though, so even if it were possible to orient the heavy gauge wires 180 degrees to each other it wouldn't fit.
Nice! The prices are realy coming down on these. Thank you. I think I will try it.
It's pretty dope
@@aaronstestlab Does it have a way to connect to a computer (Other than the phone-to-PC app) that way I can permanently store the data? If not, what if they stop supporting the app, what happens to the data on my phone - how do I backup the data in case my phone is changed/lost?
Yes, you can export the raw data in csv format
Hello Aaron, Would you like to review similar products? Maybe you could make a comparison video, that would be very interesting. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing your instlal. The instructions in the app are rather crude since they don't use a video! Would your instrucitons apply to installing a VUE 2 to a subpanel? I am installing one of each just to monitor the total usage of each subpanel and don't need to monitory each individual appliance to bill Tenents.
Sure, a subpanel running off a double-pole breaker would look just like any other circuit to the Vue.
how long does it take to install emporia energy monitor with 16 sensor?
Was that the 3 wire Waygo Nuts you used or 2 Wire?!
3-wire, I usually keep a bunch on hand because I like them so much.
Pump usage: have you ever looked into a ram pump?
Question: Instead of using Waygo Nuts to splice in, why can't I just connect it directly to the breaker next to the wire thats already there ? I would think it's the same thing !
That might work in theory, though I'm not sure two wires in one connection is up to code
@@aaronstestlab Gotcha... Thank you so much for responding !
how did you get it to work on the GFCI circuit breaker. Mine keeps tripping
Actually a good question. The plugs I tied into are not GFCI, they're AFCI. If one chose GFCI plugs the current the Vue itself draws would trip the GFCI breaker. The solution would be to pigtail the Vue's own neutral(s) into the GFCI's neutral.
Seems best to use dedicated breakers for the unit power unless you can be sure the circuits you pick never trip their breakers, and rendering the monitor inoperative.
What happened if you have no 15 amp breakers?
I'd send that question directly to Emporia
Where is the real time voltage reading ? I see it shows amps, watts, kwh and all of that but what about the voltage ?
The wifi antenna won't work inside the panel due the Faraday Cage.