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The IoTaWatt does measure voltage. You plug in a calibrated AC wall wort as well as the DC USB power supply.


Well, sorry, then. Missed that bit on their site.

Still, inductive current measurement with the sizes of the clamps they show and typical currents they're measuring isn't accurate at all. Not even considering that voltage measuremens via a wall wart would depend on what load is currently sharing the same wiring.

This might be my bias since I design similar stuff for solar offgrid, where a percent or ten off are that much in capex divided by battery lifetime, then multiplied by battery cost. It bites.

I don't trust inductive clamps at low currents. I would never trust measuring voltage on the same line as a load.

Hall sensors or current shunts; voltage dividers - all driving MCU ADC channels via optoisolated opamps. Everything measured as near to the source as possible. Otherwise you're getting nearly worthless data.




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