ENVI Home Power Monitor

The ENVI CC128 is an energy monitor that clamps to your electrical panel and transmits, the amount of electrical energy that you are using, to a wireless reciever that displays that energy on a digital display that can be placed anywhere in your home or building. It is programmable, so you can input your local utility rate and it provides you a running total of your energy usage and costs. It comes with a USB cable that allows you to download compatible software for more sophisticated monitoring. It works with 120V, 240V and 208V (with optional clamp). As appliances, lights and mechanical devices turn on and off, you can see how much enrgy they are using. The ENVI is a second generation product and will soon have the ability to monitor as many as 9 additional electrical appliance individually.

 Energy Advice

More and more people are thinking about the environment.

Already most of us do some form of recycling, and are careful about water use, but few truly understand the actual cost of electricity in the home.

If we all do the small things such as turning off lights and switching appliances off at the wall instead of leaving them on standby we will all make a massive difference. Not only to our electricity bill but also to the amount of energy waste across the country.

It’s more important than ever with the introduction of LCD and plasma screen TVs, home computers and even garden lighting, the nations use of electricity is on the rise.

Changing behaviour is a simple task. What we need is accurate information on cost. We all have a detailed phone bill and now with the Current Cost monitor, we will have real time information that will surprise everyone.

What’s the real difference of an energy saving light bulb or what we actually save when turning off the TV at the socket and most of us wouldn’t have a clue. That old freezer in the garage - you might be surprised how much it's costing.

Envi - Specifications

Buttons are:

1. Up and down changes appliance view
2. OK changes between one, seven and 30 days
3. Press and hold OK to set the clock
4. Press and hold down to sensor-tune the whole house, or the currently-displayed appliance number
5. Press and hold up to set normal price (13.9p default, also sets low price the same)
6. Press and hold up and down to set low price (and start times, if prices are different)
7. Press and hold OK and down to download history to PC. Please note: all processor activity is halted during this download, even the clock, with a lot of history, the download may take some time! Self-resets when done
8. Press and hold Up during switch-on to display whole LCD for two seconds then software version number. Cycle power to restart.
9. Press and hold up and down during switch-on to do the above, then wipe all History and Tuning IDs and burn in fresh defaults, previous DSB is saved. Data is not physically erased, only the pointers are quickly set to zero, like deleting a hard disk file.