[Shop-talk] tube fluorescent wattage

[Doug Braun]

I recently got my TED unit upgraded with the USB computer interface.  Here is a Web page that shows graphs of the power consumption it reports:

  http://dougbert.is-a-geek.com:8080/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=1&leaf_id=21


Doug (Braun)



--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Peter Murray <peterwmurray at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Murray <peterwmurray at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] tube fluorescent wattage
> To: dirtbeard at pacbell.net
> Cc: "Shop-Talk List" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 6:03 PM
> 
> My parents have a TED at their house, and it is fascinating
> to watch
> it over the course of the day/night. Their house (just west
> of
> Harrisburg, PA) is an all-electric which went onto a
> special metering
> system in 1993 with on/off peak rates. The TED has enabled
> them to
> quickly note what devices make a real difference in their
> power
> demands and which ones, to their surprise, don't.
> 
> I think I'll put a TED system in when I get the internal
> electric
> mains circuits upgraded this summer in the house (I have a
> full,
> no-single-main-breaker panel with a 50A "main" breaker on
> one hot leg
> and a 60A "main" breaker on the other - but 200A service).
> 
> -Peter
> 
> --
> Peter Murray (N3IXY)
> Oak Hill, VA