Very variable voltage with costant current

Hi,

In tring to understand how to use the ADC for to monitor some lines of Ampere use of my office (PC, light etc)

I'm using 2 sensor, one SCT013 (max 30A) and one TA12L-100 (max 5A) and testing one PC that use 67W (read id with a socket multimeter). Avtually I'm using the ADCPi/demos/demo_readvoltage.py for tests.

The problem is that readed voltage it's very variable, from 0 to 0.012355 with many other (0.002471 0.009884 etc.)

Where i wrong ?

I tried to connect the 2 wire of sensors in some different input channels but nothing changes.

Thank you

Have a nice day

Hi

Are you reading the voltage directly from the current sensors or through an additional circuit? The sensors will be outputting an AC signal at 50Hz or 60Hz depending on the frequency used in your area. As the ADC Pi only has a maximum sample rate of 240SPS on one channel you will have difficulty capturing a full AC sinewave cycle to calculate the RMS voltage as the sample rate is too low. If you just read one voltage sample then you have no way of knowing what point of the cycle the AC sinewave you have sampled so the voltage will be anywhere between 0V and the peak voltage.

The easiest way to measure AC current is by using something like the i-Snail current sensors. They contain all of the electronics needed to convert an AC current into a constant DC voltage between 0 and 5V which can be connected directly to the inputs on the ADC Pi.

Hi,

I tought that sensor will output an already usable level :|

I think that I'll use something else I seen online, because that sensor cost too much considering to use till 8 of them.

Thank you

Have a nice day