Bidgely Video - Knowledge is Power ...

"Meet Bidgely, your personal energy adviser."

Bidgely offers a great way to know what appliance is using what kind of power and when ...
It offers a graphical breakdown by device which is really helpful in getting you empowered !

Utility companies are already offering it to their customers and I recently saw something about it at EDF (France)

=> www.Bidgely.com

Another Wattson purchased in the UK just arrived

I know, again, but you will soon see why I get so many ...


Royal Mail small parcel for 7,85 £ to go across the channel


Cat food cardboard box, the right size

Two Sensor Clips or CT, the previous owner must have had solar (or wind) installed

Paired and running right away ... it found friends here :-)

ESS is on, blue ambiance lights ....

Like New Wattson for 15 EUR :-)

You won't believe it but I just got a recent, like new, Wattson Energy Monitor for only 15 EUR ...

It is a recent version, because it can tell time, meaning it has the Clock feature and can then be flashed with the newest firmware, if necessary

Complete and very clean, even the battery blister has not been touched, neither the wall power supply cord; it has its cord still folded neatly

Paired with my home transmitter




it displays Usage here

That was a very good deal :-)

Meet Tesla’s HQ Supercharging Dashboard, Most Model S “Fills” Between 30 kWh and 40 kWh

Here is something we didn’t expect to see at Tesla’s HQ – a Supercharging dashboard that pretty much tells us everything we always wanted to know about the network…in real time!

The dashboard displays all the current and coming soon location in the US for Tesla Supercharging, as well as lots of other interesting tidbits. And something you can’t find hosted online.

Here are some highlights as of when this picture was shot last week:
Total Energy Delivered: 1,382,822 kWh
Miles Charged: 3,950,921
Gallons of Gas Offset: 158,307
Numer of Charges In Last 7 Days: 1,576

The dashboard also shows the growth rate in the usage of the supercharger system as well as the usage per station. In total, 32 active Supercharging locations are being ranked in real time on the dashboard (Tesla website currently lists only 30).

Overall the best performing stations can be found in Fremont (as one would assume it would be located by the Tesla factory), with Hawthorne nipping at its toes. Worst performing station? Glenwood Springs, CO.




As of interest: The most popular amount of charging done at a station also appears to be between 30kWh and 40 kWh, with 20kWh-30kWh coming in second and 40 kWh- 50 kWh third.



Source: Inside EVs

Daikin Heat Pump Air Conditioning Big Maintenance

This morning, another visit included in my maintenance contract with the company that installed our Daikin Heat Pump back in 2008

It was a "big" maintenance said the technician when I saw him completely remove the internal units white plastic casing, times 5 units, checking, measuring, and cleaning everything

First time I see a technician do this ... and First time I see this bare units

Oops, this is the cause of a small leak during Air Conditioning mode in summer (not used a lot) and a water drain pipe cut in two : He realized that during the installation, technicians did use two pips instead of one to evacuate condensed water and linked them together with a small rigid tube inside: a small part of the water was leaking from there; He fixed this with two nylon straps tightly wrapped around each ending

His toolbox

After going downstairs to clean our bedroom unit, the technician came back up and asked me what these meters were - the Wattson units I have downstairs, in the stairs, and upstairs on the ESS -, so I explained everything along with the Solar on the roof and the ESS, opened the doors to show him the inside; He was very interested and I was happy to show him and talk about it :-) 

and the live graph that goes with it on the iPad

He then went on the roof to check the main/external unit that is mounted on an unused chimney stack 

and, since he was up there, I handed him a meter and asked if he could measure for me the South-East Side of the roof where I originally wanted to have most of the Uni-Solar PVL-68 Solar panels mounted: He said: 4 zinc roof pieces are 3.40m in length on either side of the roof access opening/window, so that means I could get 4 more PVL68 panels - since they measure only 3m long - and have them mounted there for additional Solar Power, and these ones would benefit from the best orientation ... to be continued ...

(The measured free and South located pieces of zinc roof are located on the right of this picture)

Probably one of the first Wattson Special Editions arrived in the mail ... Unboxing ...

Spotted on eBay UK at 50 GBP two weeks ago, I got this unusual Wattson unit with a very special Graphic Design ...  Unboxing ...

Asking more about this Wattson to its British seller, especially where and when she got it, she answered this:

Strange: sent from Barcelona, probably the sender was on vacation there

Well packaged

Wattson ...

Neat box

Surprise !

Check out this Design ...

Cool uh ?

Do you notice anything special in the accessories ?

It must be one of the first editions, because the transmitter locks with screws and there is no DC power supply input, it is only battery operated

Reset it right away and Paired it with my home transmitter

Waited for few minutes (?) and it finally displayed something

Glows orange (not green) when there is a Solar Surplus, like on the Silver Lining edition (below)

The only display options are, for now, Money and Usage

Downstairs, on top of the ESS, displaying Usage

Middle: Solar Generation, Right: Net Usage