I am a nerd (retired scientist) going off fossil fuels and want to look at efficiency. I installed sense yesterday because I just added a hydronic heater loop in my garage. It is heated by my previously over-sized heat pump. The garage was previously heated by a space heater. I suspect that the hydr…

Welcome @mbgracz , Lots of interesting devices there. It will be interesting to see which ones Sense picks up. Traditionally they weren’t so great on variable speed motors, even large ones, but they have been working hard on HVAC, including heat pumps. You’re asking a good question. Right now, the…

Interesting, thanks. Detection from a known small list would seem more efficient than from the list of all possibilities, but I suppose that if the wave characters of the known list are undefined…? BTW there is a Nest learning thermostat connected to the house side of the HVAC. There is a second (b…

@mbgracz , I’m not a Sense employee so I can’t give you answers on the last bit. But I can tell you a few things as a long term user who volunteers to help on community: Finding on/off patterns isn’t a simple as looking them up in some kind of Sense dictionary of power patterns for a few reasons l…

thanks a lot, this is very helpful. Mike

I wonder if, given my primary interest is the heat pump compressor, I simply clamped the inductive sensors around the legs of that circuit instead of the main legs, would the monitor figure out that it was only attached to one device?

Interesting. Hopefully my pump, a grundfos, won’t be so noisy. It does less work, being in the basement, it does not need to lift very high compared to a well. It’s 125v too, I’m assuming thay Andy’s is 250?

Nope - Sense always assumes the main sensors are on the mains. But the second set is configurable for solar OR some kinds of generators OR a second set of mains (400A with a branch) OR 1 or 2 circuits (varying configurations of 240V and 120V). That last usage is called DCM, direct circuit measurem…

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jefflayman December 11, 2022, 10:55pm 6

Welcome again to the forum, Mike. When you said you had a constant pressure water pump, it reminded me of the thread quoted below. I just wanted to warn you that Sense may have trouble identifying your devices as it did for Andy.

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