Boat project 3 - electric consumption meter

cpedw

Senior Member
Most boats have lots of electricity-hungry devices and limited generation and storage. This project uses a Hall effect current meter to measure current in a cable. Knowing how much and where the electricity goes can help designing suitable gen and storage.
It integrates current over a period (1 day or 1 week) to find total consumption in Amp.hours or that cable. As well as using a novel current sensor, it uses 3 byte arithmetic (adding and subtracting) that could be useful in other projects.

Derek
 

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kevrus

New Member
Nice project, very good writeup. Could have a use in an electric vehicle, something that i'd like to do, finances allowing of course.
 
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