I am not new here and I actually had Sense installed in my home in Williamsburg, Va when i lived in the US but i retired from the Coast Guard after 22 years of service and I moved to the Philippines last year. The weather is a lot hotter here and electricity cost is much higher here than it is in the US so last year I purchased another Sense monitor to use in my house here. When i first received the device I went to install it just like I did in the US but was unsuccessful and couldnt get it to work so i put it away until today. Until today I was using the Emporia meter and it worked but it wasnt like Sense and I didnt like the way the app functioned compared to Sense. The Emporia could have been so much better because it monitored each circuit with individual CT clamps but again the app was terrible and today I ran across a thread here that showed how to install Sense on a single phase 240V circuit just like what I have here in the Philippines. It took me less than 20 minutes to install the Sense meter and to get it up and running and I am so happy to be using this meter again. Right now I am waiting to see if the Signal check will finish and once that happens the device detection should start and I should be good to go. If the signal check completes then I see a lot of potential using a sense meter on a singal phase 240V circuit. One advantage I see is that you only need to use one CT clamp to monitor a circuit so if you use the optional CT clamps you can monitor two circuits instead of one and becuase you only need to use one CT clamp to monitor the mains then it might be possible to use the second unused CT clamp to monitor a circuit as well which would give you a total of three circuits that could have dedicated monitoring. Anyways that is enough for now and I am just happy to be back on the Sense forum which I couldnt use after I sold my house last year and left my original Sense monitor for the new owners.
It’s great to be back on here and to be using Sense again. When i got out here to the Philippines and realized how expensive electricity is I ordered another Sense meter but when I tried to install it last year I ran into the issue that the power out here is single phase 240V BUT luckily I was still getting emails from Sense and yesterday there was a link to the community forum and I did a quick search and saw another user in Chile was able to install their Sense on a 220V single phase system so i quickly dug out my Sense meter from my storage area and was able to use his photos of his install and got mine up and running in less than 20 minutes. I would have been a faster install because this is the second Sense meter and install that I have done BUT i had to uninstall a different meter that I was using which doesnt even compair to the Sense meter in my opinion. The Sense App and GUI it runs is by far in my opinion one of the best and extremely well laid out user interfaces that i’ve come across which is why I am so excited to be using Sense again. When I lived in Williamsburg, Va I used Sense for about two years and was able to get my power bill down from a monthly average of $350 down to a $35 monthly average prior to me selling my house and retiring to the Philippines. When I got out here to the Philippines I knew I needed one again so i ordered it through Amazon but because of shipping and international taxes and other fees I paid almost $600 for my second Sense meter BUT becasue of the support that I got from the company previously and how much I love this product I decided to go ahead and order this second Sense meter and I am happy that I did even if it took me 10 months to get it up and running. I know that Sense is meant for North America and a two phase 120V system I can say that Sense works flawlessly on a 240V single phase system as long as you install it correctly. Honestly I would say that there is actually more potential on a single phase system because of the need for only one CT clamp for the Mains and and single CT clamp for dedicated circuits. I will post more about this in the product wishlist and hopefully/maybe Sense can use me as a bata tester for 240V single phase systems.