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Managing and using your generated power - a whacky idea?
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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 267677" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>Okay I want some forum input now.</p><p></p><p>I'm wanting to take this little project to the next level, i.e to work out how to package it for others to use.</p><p></p><p>My prototype one has the rather odd arrangement of having the electronics in my office next to the consumer unit but the contactor that switches my immersion heater, and the 110V transformer that turns it into a low power immersion heater are upstairs in the airing cupboard.</p><p></p><p>If one were to package this unit for others, it really needs to be all in one box and using a SSR instead of a contactor.</p><p></p><p>So one box, mains in, switched mains out, and a socket to plug the current transformer in to.</p><p></p><p>In a correctly wired house, that would work okay. you would need an electrican (or be competent yourself) to take the immersion heater circuit from your CU, into the dump controller, and the output from the dump controller back to the immersion heater circuit. And the user would have to make arrangements to either fit a low power heating element, or fit a suitable transformer.</p><p></p><p>What ideas / problems can you contribute?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 267677, member: 6969"] Okay I want some forum input now. I'm wanting to take this little project to the next level, i.e to work out how to package it for others to use. My prototype one has the rather odd arrangement of having the electronics in my office next to the consumer unit but the contactor that switches my immersion heater, and the 110V transformer that turns it into a low power immersion heater are upstairs in the airing cupboard. If one were to package this unit for others, it really needs to be all in one box and using a SSR instead of a contactor. So one box, mains in, switched mains out, and a socket to plug the current transformer in to. In a correctly wired house, that would work okay. you would need an electrican (or be competent yourself) to take the immersion heater circuit from your CU, into the dump controller, and the output from the dump controller back to the immersion heater circuit. And the user would have to make arrangements to either fit a low power heating element, or fit a suitable transformer. What ideas / problems can you contribute? [/QUOTE]
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