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Home Power Monitoring Hack

dvogt writes "You think your power bill is bad? I built a power monitoring system to monitor every circuit in my house with three second resolution for over a year. And while I had to rewire all my electrical to do it, I can now reconcile my electricity bill down to the penny... Of course when my wife figured out most of the bill was because of my computer gear I had to build her a dome, so reader beware!" From the article: "About a year ago I developed a web based power monitoring application for data centers. The application was designed to monitor thousands of individual branch circuits using current transducers at the breaker panels. Among other things, the data logging requirements were to provide one year of min/max/mean measurement data with one minute resolution per circuit. Since I had all the hardware for testing, I figured what better way to test things than to install it in my own home."

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  1. You're Fired by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank you for advertising our product but you are in violation of your NDA and must be let go.

    This product is patent pending, thank you.
    - The Management

  2. Re:The dome by SlashdotMeNow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Unless your wife pays the bills, she should shut her fat cunt mouth
    ... around your penis.

  3. Re:From the article... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder if you realize that your posts dont have to do anything with the article. RTFA? New here? Really? This is a clear case of karma-whore-escaped-the-mods-on-crack. Think people, think!