Hmm, my plan for powering an Arduino from the CurrentCost energy monitor has hit a little snag – the idea was to use the 3.8v unregulated supply on pin 1 from the CurrentCost. I could then run either a Xino at 3.3v or boost it up to 5v. However, as soon as I put any load on that supply, the energy readings on the CC128 display flatline and there’s nothing in the data…
Despite some of the shonkiest soldering in living memory, the Xino Basic that arrived the other week is now built up and – rather amazingly – fired up first time. Well, to be fair, the soldering itself wasn’t really the problem; it was more a combination of me simply not putting components in straight/flush before flipping the board over and soldering, and in one case, totally ignoring the build guide…
Last week I got a hold of a new kit from Ciseco for an Arduino ethernet shield based on the ENC28J60 chip and spent some time today soldering it up. Now, to be brutally honest, the only soldering I’ve done for a long time before now involved a gas-powered iron and a Ford Capri, so I wasn’t sure how much of a challenge the kit would be, but I was…
Postman’s just delivered a little box of treats from Ciseco. Having taken them out of their wrappers, I’m a little nervous about ruining their nice clean appearance through my ham-fisted attempts at soldering, but the upside is that these kits are at the bargain basement end of the price spectrum, so if I really trash something it’s not going to be an expensive mistake. Who knows how long I will…
Rapid Online supply a range of pipe-clip temp sensors, for a couple of pounds each, that will be useful for monitoring temperatures within the heating system. Granted, they’re never going to give me actual water temperatures as they’re measuring the pipe rather than the water itself, however, over time they (should) give consistent data, which is just as good for my purposes. For 15mm copper pipe, the clip size to get is 16-18mm – I…
So I don’t lose track of them, a few notes on getting data out of a CurrentCost CC128 energy monitor and into an Arduino. Think of it as a placeholder for a proper post… http://www.techtoniq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=385 http://www.currentcost.com/cc128/xml.htm http://currentcost.wetpaint.com/ http://currentcost.posterous.com/envi-and-envir-history-output http://web.archive.org/web/20100724220142/http://e.inste.in/2008/06/16/interfacing-the-currentcost-meter-to-an-arduino/ http://web.archive.org/web/20100603083756/http://e.inste.in/2008/06/15/interfacing-the-currentcost-meter-to-your-pc/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelfrenzy/2499443217/ Some folks seem to be reporting different pinouts and baud rates, but that may be because they’re not being specific about which monitor they actually have. For my CC128…