The clipsal wiser energy product is a suggested alternate product to the wattson. Holmes software to track and analyse your wattson data. Connect wattson to your computer by usb and start up holmes. The two most common site environments are shown in the diagrams opposite. The display shows the electricity in use in your home in watts or pounds. Wattson solar plus is recommended for pv installations that include a henley block or junction box. Holmes is as straightforward to use as wattson and intuitive for all users. Sherlock bones solar pons stoker and holmes thuppariyum sambu. As far as i can tell, the wattson solar plus monitor, combined with its holmes software on the pc is the only monitor other than a smart meter installed by the electricity company that can give me a view on my net electricity usage, show if im exporting or importing electricity from the grid at any time, or show my instant generation or consumption of electricity. We dont know where else you will find a wattson solar, or any of the other wattson products. Wattson solar plus solar, the pv energy monitor display that. A quick look at what you receive in the box when you buy a wattson solar plus.
The only wireless energy monitor that shows both electricity generated by solar and that used in the home. Use its holmes or anywhere software to keep track of electricity usage in your. Also includes a serial terminal to show the commands and responses sent over the serial link. Wattson anywhere is the online portal to access your homes usage and generation data from any internetenabled device. Jun 18, 2012 as far as i can tell, the wattson solar plus monitor, combined with its holmes software on the pc is the only monitor other than a smart meter installed by the electricity company that can give me a view on my net electricity usage, show if im exporting or importing electricity from the grid at any time, or show my instant generation or consumption of electricity. Wattson energy monitors from energeno display solar pv energy. For users with renewable energy, it is particularly interesting to see how much of your. Simple application to update wattson time and currency settings when plugged in. Look into rebates and programs offered by your province you never know. Wattson shows how much electricity you are using in your home, school or office. Wattson solar plus with easifit the unique solar pv. Latest company news, press coverage and interesting articles about energeno ltd, makers of the wattson and optismart ranges. Holmes is a free program that allows you to store and see how much electricity youve generated and used over chosen periods of time.
Wattson solar has all the elements you need to measure your electricity generation as well as your energy consumption. I just have to look over, see if its glowing green, and if so i turn on the washing machine. The wattson transducer features a high accuracy chipset and provides register updates up to two times per second. Visualize the orbits of the main solar system objects in an interactive 3d solar system simulator. Shows how much of your generated electricity you are using. A number of devices now exist which allow you to view and monitor your electricity usage in real time. Well, that must have something to do with electricity, doesnt it. Front face stirnplatte face avant voorzijde parte anteriore. An energy monitor is a device that measures the amount of energy being used in the home, it is designed to give you a visual indication of how much you are consuming. Diy kyotos new wattson solar plus has been developed to monitor energy produced from domestic microgeneration systems, such as small windturbines and solar cells. The stories of sherlock holmes by sir arthur conan doyle were very popular as adaptations for. Use its holmes or anywhere software to keep track of electricity usage in your home. Turning any appliance of, off, or switching it to standby creates an immediate effect, showing how much power the appliance.
Wattson solar plus installation with easifit the displays internal memory can hold up to 28 days of data which can be extracted to a computer using the holmes software. Wattson solar plus energy monitor maximises returns on your solar pv by giving you the green light to use your free electricity. It will store four weeks of energy usage history in the unit, but this can at any time be downloaded to a computer running the free holmes software that is available from the manufacturers web site. This allows users to track their energy use and generation graphically. Are you lookiong for software for a wattson energy monitor. Wattson solar plus is the only wireless portable energy monitor, showing both electricity generated and used in the home. Mar 06, 2012 an introduction to the latest and greatest version of wattson, the wattson solar plus. Jul 06, 2006 wattson is a clever device that monitors the energy usage in your home. With easifit, wattson solar plus is even simpler to install. For anyone interested, im been working with the dev who wrote the wattson holmes software and hes doing some updates for me in his spare time, so if you have any bugs with the holmes software, let me know and ill let him know. Please note that wattsons are also available for three phase electricity supply and generation, additional 50amp sensor clips required. We have also had many inquiries about where to find and download the holmes software, which works with the wattson and allows you to analyse the data it collects on your mac or pc. They can view data, analyse activity over long periods of time, as well as export their data to a. Wattsun solar trackers now a division of array technologies offer the new duratrack trackers that allow you to get up to 40% more power from your pv system.
Energeno design and manufacture products and services to. How i reduced my electricity bill by 60% low carbon living. Make the best use of your free electricity with this smart socket to run your appliances automatically. Wattson 01 energy monitor from diy kyoto single phase kit the iconic personal energy monitor. Wattson solar shows how much energy you are generating and how much you are using. You can program wattson through holmes software with the actual. Download the free wattson solar plus software to start recording and storing your usage and generation data. Wattson anywhere energyhive moneysavingexpert forum. Wattson solar plus shows how much of your generated electricity you are using. Shows how much more power you could be using for free. It displays the results using colours and numbers, so you can use either or both according to your preference.
Sep 23, 20 1 minute introduction to wattson solar plus energeno smart solutions for renewable energy users. The portal shows you different ways to visualise your electricity activity and how it is being used. Wattson solar plus is the only monitor that shows how much power you are generating and how much you are using together on the same display. These are presented within the imagination theatre program on radio. The wattson universal power transducer utilizes cutting edge technology to implement a multifunctional power and energy transducer into a small, costeffective package. Usage history can be downloaded via software for mac and pc. It will download and store the data logged by your wattson display from the last 28 days. This wattson meter cant tell what the voltage is as it has no direct connection with the incoming supplies, it can only use the voltage that is set in the software which. Wattson solar from diy kyoto is the cost effective.
Gives detailed energy readings and historical energy use data with clock feature. Wattson solar plus is the energy monitor that glows green when you are generating surplus electricity. Wattson 01 energy monitor from diy kyoto single phase kit buy. The wattson solar plus emits a coloured glow which immediately lets. From holmes your data can be exported to a csv file, allowing you to analyse it any way you choose. But it could be so much more with some development on the software.
Wattson remains a nice, but expensive, display of instantaneous consumption. Optimmersion and optiplug are intelligent devices that help you make the best use out of your generated solar electricity. Wattson lets you monitor your electricity consumption, giving you the motivation to. Measures and displays both electricity generation and usage in the home or office.
View online or download wattson solar plus user manual. Ever since energeno and diy koyoto went bust and took down their websites our customers have been asking where they can find the wattson holmes software, which enables user of the wattson energy monitor and wattson solar to download data to your pc or mac and analyse your energy usage and production over time. Ability to display the efficiency of the solar system in easy to understand pie charts. Electricity usage monitoring watson, efergy, powermate. An introduction to the latest and greatest version of wattson, the wattson solar plus. Wattson solar plus helps me to get the most out of my solar. The wattson solar plus also works with holmes, a simple piece of software for mac or pc which helps you track your energy use and generation graphically. Some municipalities even offer a buyback program for solar energy.
Do it yourself kyoto is also pretty indicative of the type of company behind this. Mar 06, 2015 solar installed 21 november 2014 centre of england 3,780 wp 14 270 watt trina panels 14 enphase microinverters managed by enlighten envoy hub 19 west of south 35 pitch tree shading to east iboost wattson anywhere monitoring schneider electric drayton migenie smart thermostat. Wattson solar plus alerts you when you are generating more power than you are using by immediately glowing green. This short video goes through the different modes on wattson solar plus while richard talks us. Request to remove aya instruments measuring, metering, monitoring. Holmes software, for mac or pc, allows users to analyse their use of energy. Wattson solar plus energy monitor buywithnous nous house. Earlier this year i wrote about how the wattson solar plus energy monitor helps me make the most of my solar generated electricity by letting me know when im generating more electricity than im using. Apr 26, 2012 the wattson solar plus measures both the energy produced by your solar panels and the energy used in your home or business. I love the name that diy kyoto has given to this energy monitoring device. Wattson is a clever device that monitors the energy usage in your home. Wattson solar plus with easifit is recommended for all other installations.
Wattson solar plus brings electricity use and generation to. Wattson solar plus solar, the pv energy monitor display. Accessories are available to boost functionality of your wattson solar plus and to allow for more flexible installations. You can send this data to a community, so you and others can share and compare how well youre doing and exchange ideas on how to make more savings. Its pretty elementary as sherlock holmes would say to his inquisitive offsider, watson. The solar and solar plus models monitor usage, generation and most. The wattson can be connected, via usb, to a computer to allow download of the stored data. There is a dedicated tariff section where you can input your current electricity prices and feedin tariff. Wattson solar plus energy monitor smart meter pv photovoltaic. Ever since energeno and diy koyoto went bust and took down their websites our customers have been asking where they can find the wattson holmes software, which enables user of the wattson energy monitor and wattson solar to download data to your pc or mac and analyse your.
Information is available via the rs485 modbus rtu output port. Wattson energy matters forums energy matters forum. People measuring their windsolar generated electricity have a further 3. Online visibility of your home electricity usage and your solar pv performance. Here we list all the software we have, for both mac and pc. Wattson incorporates three meters into one to provide a unique solution for monitoring up to three singlephase loads, or one threephase load. These records began on friday 30th of may 2014 at 15. The truerms inputs may be used even with distorted waveforms such as those generated by variable frequency drives and scr loads. One thing ive noticed with the new version he sent me is how much faster it is at showing the graphs etc. See who you know at wattson innovations, leverage your professional network, and get hired.
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