[Shop-talk] Remote electric meter readout

[Doug Braun]

--- "John T. Blair" <jblair1948 at cox.net> wrote:

> 3. You need to know the cost of 1kw of electricity. 
> Here in VA I pay
>    9 cents in the summer and 7 cents in the winter
> for 1kw.

In NJ it costs me about 15 cents year-around  :-( 

> But as someone else said, you get get a cheap clamp
> on Am meter for under
> $30.  You take the current reading from the meter,
> multiply by 220V for
> the service to your house, then by the cost per KW
> hr and you know how
> much your house is costing you to run.

Actually, there is not really any place where a
clamp-on meter would fit around either of the two
phases. But I can just time how long it takes for the
disc in the meter to turn, and divide it into the
magic number (kH) on the face of the meter.

Doug