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martijnvwezel / watermeter-esphome

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Device Power Consumption #47

Open elduds opened 1 month ago

elduds commented 1 month ago

Hello from Australia! Thank you for the cool solution!

Here our detached houses typically have the water meter on the front verge, often outside and away from any power source. I am considering options to power the device. Has anyone else solved this problem?

Is there any information available on power consumption, and if not does anyone have any input into which parameters or how to estimate the power requirements in order to size an appropriate solution such as solar PV/battery or rechargeable battery?

thanks!

martijnvwezel commented 2 weeks ago

I know one person bought a small rechargeable battery with a solar panel. Voltatec or something the brand was called. Someone else used very long ethernet cable with 12V power supply, and on the end he putted a 12V to 5V converter and that still works I assume.

matheuscanela commented 2 weeks ago

Hi @martijnvwezel

Hello from Australia too :) I am also interested in this device, do you know what type of meters it supports? Do you ship it to Australia?

Here is the picture of my device PXL_20240619_124903300

@elduds lets buy it together! :)

matheuscanela commented 2 weeks ago

Potentially use something like this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006996856939.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.30025f68Die4AG&algo_pvid=8ec30022-b3ea-4d59-b6ab-35c51365980c&algo_exp_id=8ec30022-b3ea-4d59-b6ab-35c51365980c-0&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21AUD%2159.32%2127.88%21%21%21283.13%21133.07%21%402101dee017188019211512469eb3a6%2112000038992202634%21sea%21AU%21931089232%21&curPageLogUid=zAcJsy9YD3Jn&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A

Just not sure if the battery is enough to run more than a day - @martijnvwezel thoughts?