[time-nuts] Recommendations for Mains Power Monitor / Logger

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Sun Mar 11 18:13:26 EDT 2018


On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 14:41:23 -0500
Dana Whitlow <k8yumdoober at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll have to take a look around to see if there isn't something cheap that
> can run
> standalone so I don't have to tie up (or wear out) a whole PC for the
> acquistion
> process.

Blub... I should the whole mail....sorry about that.

How about this: get a uC board (e.g. STM32discovery), replace
the crystal with a 10MHz input from your frequency reference.
Use the on-chip 12bit (really just 6bit) ADC to sample the
sine wave from your mains. Do phasor measurement in software.

Probably any sampling frequency between 200Hz and 1kHz should
do the job, Which is slow enough so you can still handle the
samples with the uC alone and don't need any fancy DSP.


			Attila Kinali

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