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by jcb
Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:29 am
Forum: Electric Meters
Topic: v4 meter VAR phase - missing for high PF?
Replies: 9
Views: 20058

Re: v4 meter VAR phase - missing for high PF?

Thank you BlueHornet for taking the time and having the patience to explain the electrical engineering. Jameson: My original question remains: Restating: If the v4 meter does not report "capacitive" or "inductive" VAR then there is no way to do the correct VAR calculations in the...
by jcb
Thu Aug 20, 2015 6:50 pm
Forum: Electric Meters
Topic: v4 meter VAR phase - missing for high PF?
Replies: 9
Views: 20058

v4 meter VAR phase - missing for high PF?

Background: I have two V4 units one on service entrance one on solar inverter V4 unit on solar system reports significant VAR, about 8% of watts, so for 6KW solar I have near 500VAR (a significant value) . Under these conditions effective PF is rounded off to 1.00 (it is about 0.996) in the V4 repor...
by jcb
Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:18 pm
Forum: Electric Meters
Topic: dash issues on centos 6.6
Replies: 7
Views: 12944

Re: dash issues on centos 6.6

dunno how much help it is, but attached the screenshot
by jcb
Sat Aug 15, 2015 4:48 am
Forum: Electric Meters
Topic: dash issues on centos 6.6
Replies: 7
Views: 12944

Re: dash issues on centos 6.6

recreate? - try to run dash on Centos 6.6 64bit system thanks for the response FYI "apt" is not the default standard preferred Centos tool, "yum" is used as mentioned previously, I have installed the well known libs (32bit support): libstdc++.i686, libgcc.i686 glib2.i686, libicu....
by jcb
Sun Aug 02, 2015 12:55 pm
Forum: Electric Meters
Topic: dash issues on centos 6.6
Replies: 7
Views: 12944

dash issues on centos 6.6

I managed to get dash (1.8.2) to start on centos 6.6, 64 bit, but I do not think it is working properly, some highlights: Some console messages are spewing: gtk unhappiness, not located theme clearlooks, not loading canberra Add meter dialog: 1) GUI is not properly displayed; items are cut off and n...