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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."
Unless your wife pays the bills, she should shut her fat cunt mouth
What a tool that guy must be. He should build the dome for fun, or for a gift, but not to -appease- his dumb whore wife. Electricity is a trivial expense. It's what, 5 cents a kilowatt? I spend more on astroglide. Anyways, the dome would be better if it was glass (or plexi, or anything transparent).