Week 5 Update - Insteon Power Monitoring

Hello

The first thing I did today was do a comparison between the Electricity Meter and an Insteon Energy Display. I wanted to measure the Wattage from an LED bulb. Above I included pictures of the Insteon Energy Display and Meter I used.

Here are the pictures of my Electricity Meter setup:

 So the bulb is giving me 7.7 Watts. And here is my Insteon Setup with the Energy Display and Meter:

The Energy Display that was given to me had a cracked screen and when I tried to link the Display and Meter to display the Watts from the bulb and it did not work. Maybe it's because of the cracked screen? Anyway, I tried to do it again with my Tablet so here is the reading I got the Electricity Meter:

I got a reading of 11.9 Watts on the Electricity Meter and on the Energy Display I got nothing. I waited for about 5 minutes and the display just beeped loudly and nothing. I'll just have to buy another one. Anyway, here is a link to the manual for the Energy Display: http://cache.insteon.com/documentation/2448A2-en.pdf

My professor got me another Energy Display and I gave it another shot. I tried to read the Wattage from my Tablet and from the Bulb and it still did not work. I followed the instructions to a T and it still didn't work. Is there something I'm not getting here? Does the Display have to be a certain distance from the Meter? The manual doesn't say so. 

Honestly, I don't trust this Display. Why should I wait for 2 devices to link when I can use just 1 and get instant results.

For now, I give up on the Energy Display. Now, I grabbed the WattNode BACnet Power Meter my professor gave me and looked up the manual so that I could wire it and figure out how it works. Since my professor wanted data on the Cloud to be one of the requirements of all Capstone projects, I figured since this is a BACnet device... I could take the readings from the BACnet and put them into the cloud. Here is a picture of the WattNode BACnet Model: WNC-3Y-208-BN:

After that, my professor tried to do use the Insteon Energy Display and Meter and it still didn't work. He tired a few more times and even read the instructions as carefully as possible and it didn't work. There's another reason I don't trust the display. I read through the manual for the WattNode seeing how the Current Transformer are wired and how the BACnet works

-Valentin