July 15, 20197 yr Author And here is the same graph, over the last 7 days. Blue line (voltage) going to down to 0 is mostly undesirable. As you can see, this was happening way to frequently.
July 16, 20197 yr When it dips, for how long does it dip? The timeout on conlog meters is usually a nice round number, like 30 seconds. If you stand right next to it when the contactor opens, you can hear it and you can time it until it pulls back in.
July 19, 20197 yr Author @plonkster, best as I can make out from the graphs, it varies from sum minute, to about 3minutes(or so I remember). I'm keeping an eye om all of this via my phone also, which is not ideal (screen size wise etc). The actual meter is installed in the municipal supply box, outside the property. locked mostly. Once I'm physically present again there, I will try to force this condition while stand next to that thing, to check if I can hear those contractors doing anything. For the record, since upping the grid set point, incidents have been lees, BUT it did happen again once today (as far as I can see from the reported data). The graph shows we pushed back some, but no where near the 3amps that seemed to be the previous trigger limit. Also, the pattern I THOUGHT I had identified (specific large loads switching off) did NOT present itself this time. The mystery deepens.
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