Anyone monitoring a Clausius GSHP?
Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 9:10 pm
I’m about to install an Iotawatt 14channel energy monitor feeding into emoncms to monitor electrical energy use, solar production (we have 6kw PV on the roof and an Eddi diverter) and the charge/discharge from the battery system we’re about to install along with monitoring of several circuits and the heat pump.
I’m looking to start monitoring the heat pump so that I can better understand what it’s doing and how I might improve on it’s energy use after reading through the open energy monitor forum. The heat pump seems to measure all the things I want to monitor and show them on it’s lcd screen but it’s a case of how to I get those readings into emoncms?
Apparently there’s an online monitoring option but just the interface for that costs £800 (CREL pCOWeb) and I don’t know if that’s able to export to emoncms or if it would be a proprietary web interface.
Does anyone know if the data can be pulled directly from the heat pump as I believe it will output modbus data though I’m unsure how. I guess the alternative would be adding a heat meter but that seems redundant if I could get the data from the machine itself. Alternatively, I could run an EmonTX or similar and just monitor the inlet/outlet temps of the ground loop and heating pipes along with electrical energy use but again, all these are already done by the machine so I’m trying to figure out how best I might use what it’s already doing.
I've posted this over on open energy's forum but figured someone here might have some insight as well.
I’m looking to start monitoring the heat pump so that I can better understand what it’s doing and how I might improve on it’s energy use after reading through the open energy monitor forum. The heat pump seems to measure all the things I want to monitor and show them on it’s lcd screen but it’s a case of how to I get those readings into emoncms?
Apparently there’s an online monitoring option but just the interface for that costs £800 (CREL pCOWeb) and I don’t know if that’s able to export to emoncms or if it would be a proprietary web interface.
Does anyone know if the data can be pulled directly from the heat pump as I believe it will output modbus data though I’m unsure how. I guess the alternative would be adding a heat meter but that seems redundant if I could get the data from the machine itself. Alternatively, I could run an EmonTX or similar and just monitor the inlet/outlet temps of the ground loop and heating pipes along with electrical energy use but again, all these are already done by the machine so I’m trying to figure out how best I might use what it’s already doing.
I've posted this over on open energy's forum but figured someone here might have some insight as well.