Meters, 22/12/10 By Ruairi Kay
Not much to report here other than the new electric and water meters have been installed and the internal decoration is being finished off, still waiting for the windows to arrive though..... In order to fulfil the monitoring requirements of the project we need to install new electric, gas and water meters with a pulse output. Normally the various utility companies would be engaged to replace the existing meters. As utility companies are notoriously difficult to deal with it, we felt it would be unlikely we could have the meters changed within the tight program. So we have purchased our own meters with a pulse output and fitted these in series with the existing meters. We have also created a new cupboard to contain the existing meters, new meters and the Wattbox data relay unit. The Wattbox is an innovative heating controller that monitors occupancy and heating preference and uses this information to constantly optimises the central heating and hot water to maximise comfort and efficiency. In this case it also takes care of all the data acquisition required by the Energy Saving Trust as part of the 2 year monitoring, more on all this in a future post.
New meters for electric, CHP output and PV output.
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