Hi, I’m Miles Fagerlie, a retired aerospace engineer living in a 4500 sq ft house in Peoria (part of the Phoenix metropolitan area).
I installed the Sense system myself about 3 weeks ago, and was impressed at how easy it was to install. The app is quite usable, and overall I’m pleased with the information provided by this system, although I don’t expect that it will wind up saving me money. I’m already running a pretty tight ship with a fair amount of home automation.
I have been watching curiously as Sense has identified various electric appliances. The most interesting are my wife’s hair curling iron (the first device identified about 3 days after installation) and our master bathroom lighting (4 LED bubs of 18 watts each - which is the most recently identified item).
At this point Sense has identified 17 devices, most of them heating elements on our electric stove (Stove 1 thru 6) and double ovens (Heat 2, 3 and 4). I think it’s presently lumping my upstairs furnace blower motor and my downstairs furnace blower motor as one device and I’ll be interested to see if it figures that out.
My “Always On” load is 421 watts. Can anyone tell me what is a typical home’s always on load? Is mine high, normal, or low?
Finally, I have a Honda Clarity PHEV, and I only use 115 volt (slow) charging. I can easily see the 1400 watt draw when it’s charging, but Sense hasn’t made any guess yet as to what it might be. I’ve seen on other discussions on this forum that a few EVs are (finally) being recognized as they get profiles established, and I’m hoping my Clarity is soon identified and labeled. It’s a non-trivial user of electric power, and one of my hopes was being able to set up an alarm to let me know if the wifi controlled outlet switch that powers on and off it fails or gets hung up, so my car won’t be allowed to charge during peak demand periods on weekday afternoons.