Submitted by TrystanLea on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 23:05.
Hello Mahesh Sutariya
Thanks for your kind words about the site.
In writing a response to your question: why open source? It soon became an essay and so I have created a page here with what I hope answers your question.
Your wireless automatic meter reading design looks great! Im intending to try wireless soon, I have 2 Xbee modules from adafruit ready for when I get to that stage. First Im going to put together a 7 segment LED display, hopefully this weekend.
In response to your question on the wind turbine blog about combining energy monitoring with wind power generation. Monitoring the power generated by a micro wind turbine such as the hugh piggot turbine should be very similar to measuring power consumed. In the case of the hugh piggot wind turbine the voltage of the electricity is 12V and the current can be up to 50A and so to measure the wind turbine current you need a sense resistor like this one.
Hello Mahesh
Hello Mahesh Sutariya
Thanks for your kind words about the site.
In writing a response to your question: why open source? It soon became an essay and so I have created a page here with what I hope answers your question.
Your wireless automatic meter reading design looks great! Im intending to try wireless soon, I have 2 Xbee modules from adafruit ready for when I get to that stage. First Im going to put together a 7 segment LED display, hopefully this weekend.
In response to your question on the wind turbine blog about combining energy monitoring with wind power generation. Monitoring the power generated by a micro wind turbine such as the hugh piggot turbine should be very similar to measuring power consumed. In the case of the hugh piggot wind turbine the voltage of the electricity is 12V and the current can be up to 50A and so to measure the wind turbine current you need a sense resistor like this one.
Hope that helps
Trystan