@toadman03, here’s a thought if you really want to know and don’t want to DIY. You can get a second Sense monitor and repurpose it for DCM.
I have solar so I can’t use DCM on my primary Sense, but I purchased a second one for experimentation. I have been able to test an approach for Solar users, by using the second Sense monitor for its DCM capacity. I currently have 2 x 240V devices monitored by my new Sense, a Tesla charger and sub panel for all my floor heating coils. A few caveats upfront:
- Pricey - you have to buy a second Sense monitor and a set of Flex cables. But for me, this was still way cheaper and easier than a CT per circuit approach.
- Requires a second account and blending data between two accounts - Most of of my data comes from my main Sense, but when I want to sum up usage by all devices, I have to resort to data export and spreadsheet or R.
- Setup was a little tricky - Setting up a second monitor without the second port on my solar backfeed gave problems during the initial setup. Sense support helped me get through setup. I should also comment that this is not an officially supported configuration.
Here’s what I had to do:
- Buy second Sense monitor and Flex cable (either from Sense or from another users who is reselling - I have done both)
- Install the Sense, with the mains CTs on my mains, and the secondary (middle port) CTs installed on a single hot line of my two BALANCED (no neutral connection) 240V device.
- Run setup on the Sense, by creating a second account. For me, the setup process got stuck, then support eventually pushed it through, but it jumped to a Solar configuration, even though my second set of CTs weren’t on a solar backfeed. I suspect that Sense sees negative power on my mains (solar producing are than I am using) and automatically trips to solar.
- Ask Sense support to disable the Solar so I could go through the DCM setup process. They did.
- Execute DCM setup - for both devices, I couldn’t use the breakers to turn the devices on. I had to use the thermostat to start a floor loop and had to manually start the charging process for the EV. But in the end, setup worked !
I now have two 240V DCM devices registering on my second Sense account.
BTW, the second benefit of my second is that I placed it on my main network, vs. my IoT network, where all my other Sense / smart-plug stuff lives, which means that I can also see my Hue devices. My IoT network isn’t wired, so the the Hue can’t report to my main Sense on that network.
So I can now see details of both my charging
and my floor heating.
https://community.sense.com/t/nuheat-heating-coils-with-nuvent-thermostats/12651/2
ps: I suppose, if I were very careful with polarities and L1/L2, I could move my second Sense’s mains CTs to another balanced or unbalanced 240V circuit for monitoring. I would have to treat the Power Meter and Total Consumption as my third device, since it wouldn’t show up directly in devices. Gonna have to try sometime. That would give me 3 240V devices on of my second Sense.