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Customer Reviews
I moved to the Vue from a Sense Monitor. I found the Sense to be unreliable and too variable in the devices it was detecting. While the Vue takes a bit more effort to set up, especially with a sub-panel, it’s undeniably more consistent and precise. I’m a big fan.
Some more power visualizations would be nice (I do admittedly miss the live usage visualizations in Sense), but it’s really not a big deal and I appreciate the continued development from Emporia. :)
Love the VUE. But with a full panel plus solar plus a Tesla charging station, plus a standby generator; the Gen2 would have fit much better.
So I was looking for a simple fuse panel power usage monitor. I reviewed a few different ones online and settled on the Vue 3 from Emporium.
It was a straight forward install. I did go out and buy 2 extra breakers for my panel to power my Vue 3 ( I had lots of fun used space). You can power them in line with existing breakers but choose to just add 2. Plus this allows me power cycle the Vue 3 if it ever has a problem and not effect anything else.
The install instructions were straight forward. I am not an electrician but was able to safely install this monitor. I turn off the power to my house and ran all the cables. Vue 3 cables and probes to my selected circuits.
Setting up the APP was a breeze. I was even able to use my web browser and monitor my Vue 3 from my computer. It allowed me to put in my kWh rate for my area. It will will even allow split rate prices (Peak/Off Peak).
My main reason for buying this was to see if it will work for metering my 2 apartments attached to my garage/shop. This way I can charge the tenant only for what they use in power and not have them concerned that they are paying part of the shops bill
This appears like it will send an email/notifications to me at the beginning of each month with the total uses kWh for that monitor. That is all I really wanted. The circuit monitoring has been nice though. I did find that I should have bought the 16 circuit monitoring kit. Monitor the 8 I did have had been helpful in identifying some extra draw from in efficient lighting that I was unaware of.
I changed out all the light in one of rooms and saw a 200 watt drop in power usage. That adds up to $30+ per month based on my utilities rate in my area.
I also see my heated mats need to be turned off when there is no snow as they consume over 750 watts when powered on. That was a big surprise. So now I am ordering 8 more circuit monitors.
I do wish the application did more stuff. Like maybe notify me if it detects something out of the normal of my power usage. Like maybe leaving my heat mats on or a sudden spike in a circuit that hasn't been the normal pattern. Things like that would be nice.
But for the main purpose of monitoring my rental unit it will work great I think.
My 2 cent's,
Chris
Anchorage, Alaska
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Customer Reviews
I moved to the Vue from a Sense Monitor. I found the Sense to be unreliable and too variable in the devices it was detecting. While the Vue takes a bit more effort to set up, especially with a sub-panel, it’s undeniably more consistent and precise. I’m a big fan.
Some more power visualizations would be nice (I do admittedly miss the live usage visualizations in Sense), but it’s really not a big deal and I appreciate the continued development from Emporia. :)
Love the VUE. But with a full panel plus solar plus a Tesla charging station, plus a standby generator; the Gen2 would have fit much better.
So I was looking for a simple fuse panel power usage monitor. I reviewed a few different ones online and settled on the Vue 3 from Emporium.
It was a straight forward install. I did go out and buy 2 extra breakers for my panel to power my Vue 3 ( I had lots of fun used space). You can power them in line with existing breakers but choose to just add 2. Plus this allows me power cycle the Vue 3 if it ever has a problem and not effect anything else.
The install instructions were straight forward. I am not an electrician but was able to safely install this monitor. I turn off the power to my house and ran all the cables. Vue 3 cables and probes to my selected circuits.
Setting up the APP was a breeze. I was even able to use my web browser and monitor my Vue 3 from my computer. It allowed me to put in my kWh rate for my area. It will will even allow split rate prices (Peak/Off Peak).
My main reason for buying this was to see if it will work for metering my 2 apartments attached to my garage/shop. This way I can charge the tenant only for what they use in power and not have them concerned that they are paying part of the shops bill
This appears like it will send an email/notifications to me at the beginning of each month with the total uses kWh for that monitor. That is all I really wanted. The circuit monitoring has been nice though. I did find that I should have bought the 16 circuit monitoring kit. Monitor the 8 I did have had been helpful in identifying some extra draw from in efficient lighting that I was unaware of.
I changed out all the light in one of rooms and saw a 200 watt drop in power usage. That adds up to $30+ per month based on my utilities rate in my area.
I also see my heated mats need to be turned off when there is no snow as they consume over 750 watts when powered on. That was a big surprise. So now I am ordering 8 more circuit monitors.
I do wish the application did more stuff. Like maybe notify me if it detects something out of the normal of my power usage. Like maybe leaving my heat mats on or a sudden spike in a circuit that hasn't been the normal pattern. Things like that would be nice.
But for the main purpose of monitoring my rental unit it will work great I think.
My 2 cent's,
Chris
Anchorage, Alaska