I was able to use an HS110 for one thing I was curious about. I wanted to know how often the oump cycled and for how long for hot water recirculating system.
My only problem is the range of WiFi. I had to take a 50 foot cord from where the oump is to anplace the plug is in range and another 50 foot cord back to the pump.
My cheap plug I was using has better range but not monitoring. I got the answers I was looking for so now I’ll move it somewhere it will be useful for the long term.
The HS110 doesn’t like the crawl space
@andy
I agree. There are loads of devices that sense will never detect.
An always on tivo, dvr, camera, switch, router or wap for starters.
A PC is going to be really difficult because of the hugely variable power requirements. CPUs and GPUs ramp up and down at fandom rates. Monitors go to sleep and usb ports come up and down.
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My worry with the HS300 is that it isn’t much of a protection device. I’d still want something decent plugged in ahead of it to protect my entertainment center.
got some good data today for my refrigerator and this is what its energy finger print on the app looks like.
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I’ve thought of one of these but haven’t took the plunge yet.
Not sure what you mean by the HS300 not being much of a protection device.
If he was referring to the HS300 not having surge protection (as I read it), just for the record, it does have surge protection.
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They’re very lax on details of its protection capabilities compared to something you’d see by other purpose specific devices. Not enough detail for me to trust it alone unless they’ve recently updated their documentation.
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That’s how I would use it too.
I too have a Samsung RFG297AA that after 2 years still had not been detected. I’d see spikes for the defroster, but not the other components. Finally put it behind an HS110 and now I see they whole picture. The defroster runs every 21 hours, with the compressor/fan usually on for 1.25 hrs and off for 1 hr. I wish Sense would have picked this up on its own.
Thanks for the link to the deal on those plugs Andy. I ended up order their pack of 2 for $30 and hopefully i’ll have those by next week. I plan on putting one on my washing machine but not sure where i am going to put the second one yet.
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I was researching the same but my problem is we have no free breakers in our panel. The panel is just old enough to not support tandem breakers, and preventing me from consolidating so I would be able to install one of these whole hours protectors. I wish I knew why the original building installed 150A service instead of spending a couple more bucks for 200A and matching panel.
Have you given thought to changing some of your 120 breakers for “thin” or “slim” breakers?
This is a common problem in panels. All the spaces get used up, especially the 20 and 32 slot boxes.
These thin breakers are essentially 2 separate single pole breakers had together taking up half the space. Not all breaker panels will handle them in all slots. Mine will in all slots but some square d panels have certain slots they must be used in. They are relatively cheap as long as you don’t need AFCI or GFCI breakers and run about $15 a piece.
Search Lowe’s or similar for “Tandem breaker”.
Those are the tandem breakers I referenced. My panel does not support them in any slot. 
Oh boy, that’s not good.
I’ve seen other option that install at the disconnect that’s between the meter and panel but did research because I don’t have that. The way they did them here for years is your 200 amp breaker inside the panel is the ONLY disconnect. If yours does have one then maybe you have options.
We don’t tend to have those up here in MA residential areas. My house is extra odd in that the meter itself is in our front yard on a small wooden board. The feed is then piped underground, pops up just outside our foundation, then finally enters our basement directly above the panel through the house sill. Some weird stuff going on in our development.
That is strange. My wife would go nuts to have a yard ornament like that. She would make me build a brick wall around it to keep it out of sight.
I have a similar situation. The power pole for the neighbors house is in my back yard instead of theirs. My house gets power from a pole at the road. I was real happy when they changed the neighbors transformer last year and parked the bucket truck in my yard and tore up my lawn.
Mine is threatening to build wishing well or something around it.
You could open up a double pole by removing two 30’s, like water heater and a/c then putting a cheap 100 amp sub panel with the 30’s there.
Square d homeline has an indoor surface mount for $22 at Home Depot. It’s 12 slot. Put it close enough and the existing wire would reach and need very little to get from sub to the main panel.
I had to do similar to support my basement woodshop and the adjoining exercise room. The original 220v panel was almost full when the builder’s electricians left, with virtually no room for expansion. So a sub panel was the only reasonable cost solution.
The whole process cost about $25 (not including the new beakers) and I was careful to get the same manufacturer so I could move the two basement breakers out of the main panel and into the sub panel. Total time was about an hour.