AC Diversion Load, Part 4 - Timer Driven Automation
Added an interval timer to drive the fixed step diversion load automation.
With the new Gen5 home energy meter seeming to report only positive power data, instead of the absolute value power data that the old Gen2 meter did, I'm now able to work with the 0.000W reading that's displayed for "negative" or exported power. Adding a timer to automatically invoke the automation logic helps to drive the fixed increment/decrement code. In short, if 0.000W is seen, the code ramps the diversion load up 5%, or 30W, every 15 seconds until a positive power reading is obtained. Then it'll monitor the power and if the power is over 50W it'll decrease the load and if it's under 5W it'll increase the load. And if the power exceeds 150W, it'll shut down the load. The automation code only works off the current clamp on the circuit it's plugged into.
Lessons learned in this version was that maintaining a separate counter to store the dimmer setting is not a good idea. It's hard to keep those two entities in sync. It also eliminates the option to manually control the dimmer to see how the automation responds to changes. The interval timer is very useful, I've used this before in another automation, but only for a single delay. In this case, the timer is continuously restarted, although still have some bugs to work out in a later video.
Hardware:
In-wall dimmer:
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Ceramic heat lamp:
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Aeotec Home Energy Meter Gen5:
https://amzn.to/3iEgf4i
More to come, trying to get the Gen5 power meter to read negative values...
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