I`ve been looking around for a mains (220-240VAC) power monitoring circuit that I might be able to interface with an Arduino. There is of course the OpenEnergyMonitor solution, but they seem to use a transformer to isolate and measure the mains voltage. The transformer doesn`t exactly couple to the mains nicely: so the voltage on the secondary side is not a scaled
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voltage of the input side, the transformer itself will distort the voltage sine wave. Then over the weekend I came across Dave Berkeley`s Project Page, and he has a cool design for mains power usage monitor that does measure the line voltage directly. His Home Energy Monitor uses a dual channel ADC with opto-isolation, nice solution. There is loads of info over at his site, I`ve just changed a few little parts for my version. He uses a 10bit ADC [MPC2003] which I couldn`t get from RS, they were showing back order on the part, so I had a dig around and came up with a 12bit version of the same chip [MPC3202] just have to watch the conversion time, it`s not 200ksps but 100ksps, but I don`t see it being a problem (famous last words!). So started up KiCAD and got work, then on to RS to get the parts! If you like a PDF of the circuit diagram here you go: Mains Power Monitor Circuit Diagram (rev 1. 0) On Dave`s circuit he has a voltage divider that I couldn`t make sense of, it looks like he has 100K current limiting resisters on the two input lines and a divider made up from one of these and a 270R. The simulation on this only gave a 2. 08 -> 2. 92 volt swing on the ADC, given a 311V peek to peek AC input [which is 220VAC * sqt(2)]. I`ve used 1M0 on the current limiting and a divider of 1M0 and 10K, which give a little more input to the ADC.
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