Elspec Meters

Purpose

The purpose of this plugin is to collect data from Elspec G4400 Meters.

Usage

This plugin reads the data from Elspec G4400 Meters via serial or TCP. Meter data will be collected to the meter table. By default, it will collect data every 5 minutes, but can collect at a minimum rate of about 0.3 seconds via TCP. The plugin will make 1 attempt (by default) to read the meter. This plugin relies on the Modbus Ardexa plugin. The following data will be collected:

Variable                                    Units
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AC Voltage L1-N                             V
AC Voltage L2-N                             V
AC Voltage L3-N                             V
AC Voltage L1-L2                            V
AC Voltage L2-L3                            V
AC Voltage L3-L1                            V
AC Current 1                                A
AC Current 2                                A
AC Current 3                                A
AC Power 1                                  W
AC Power 2                                  W
AC Power 3                                  W
AC Power                    
Reactive Power 1                            VAR
Reactive Power 2                            VAR
Reactive Power 3                            VAR
Reactive Power                              VAR
Apparent Power 1                            VA
Apparent Power 2                            VA
Apparent Power 3                            VA
Apparent Power                              VA
Total Energy In Plus Out                    Wh
Total Energy In Minus Out                   Wh
Total Reactive Energy In Minus Out          VARh
Total Reactive Energy Plus Minus Out        VARh
Grid Freq                                   Hz
Power Supply Temperature                    °C

Arguments

Arguments are as follows:

• endpoint. This is either a serial device like /dev/ttyS0 or an IP or DNS like 192.168.1.15

• bus_addresses. A Modbus address in the range 2-255. This can be a hyphenated list like 3-10 or a list like 2,5,7,9

• --port. This is an optional parameter used in an Ethernet gateway, and is the TCP port used for the gateway. Default is 502

• --attempts. This is an optional parameter, and determines how many times to times to attempt to read the meter value. Default is 1

• --delay. This is the delay in seconds between inverter send and receive commands, AND if attempts > 1. Fractions like 0.3 can be used. Default is 0.05

• --stop_on_any_command_fail. If this is specified, then any Modbus commands that fail will stop all further queries for all bus addresses and attempts.

• --serial_lock. If this is set, the program can only be run one at a time (so as not to overload a Modbus device). If the device being queried is a serial device, this will automatically be set to "on". For IP addresses it is optional.

• --sampling_rate. If this is defined, and the sampling rate is greater than 1, then all values listed above will be collected as an average. In other words; it will take a sample at the nominated frequency. After X samples defined by sampling_rate, a record will be written and sent to the cloud.