How to tell if generating or using GRID power when PVSolar is installed

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g7pkf
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Well My eleccy meter has an LED that flashes when power is being drawn off grid and goes steady red when i am feeding power onto grid.

 

i wanted to know which way round the power was going?

 

so i devised many a circuit that would count pulses etc, then i remembered i had a current cost development board so had a little play with a std cheap light dependant resistor and a 100K potentiometer and low and behold i could get it to output to the current cost.

 

shows 500watts when feeding grid and 0 when drawing.

 

 

pachube feed here (needs to update for a while before it will show me feeding grid as its getting dark and wife's cooking)

https://pachube.com/feeds/15114

 

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