Part Two of Energy Monitoring Box

My associate, Paul Gelling, populating the front panel of Collabworx/Sensyr Energy Monitoring AC Power Distribution and Network Hub which will be used as part of a smart building system in the Syracuse University Center of Excellence building located in downtown Syracuse, New York. The system will be used to monitor energy in a cubicle to analyze the way people use energy in an office situation.

All eight outlets will be switchable over the Internet using an embedded controller with solid state relays.

Total energy consumption will be monitored and logged, for the purpose of determining whether or not the smart building system can actually save energy when providing personal environmental monitoring and adjustments.

Because this cabinet cover is not perfectly flat, it was a challenge to machine the text without making it too shallow or cutting completely through the box. We used one box as a test unit and finally found that a depth of 5/100ths worked well and set the zero point on the Z axis at the highest part of the lid.

Links to related sites:

System Design and Implementation:
http://www.sensyr.com
http://www.collabworx.com

Boxes are going Center of Excellence:
http://www.syracusecoe.org

Imservice CNC router available at:
http://www.imwsrv.com

CNC Machining Done by:
http://www.berezintechnologies.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Alternative Energy
• Energy Conservaton

[pdgelling]

Thanks. In the end, we left it alone. We had a fourth test panel where we tried a bunch of techniques--everything from black shoe polish to RTV--to fill the lettering. Hot glue worked fairly well, as did silicone RTV. I even tried glow-in-the-dark hot glue just for fun. We liked the hot glue because it could be re-worked with a heat gun to remove the excess and even the fill.

[GIJeaux1]

Try white silicon in the lettering. I've used it to hi-lite lettering on bowling balls and some antique gun stampings. Works well, last forever.

[pdgelling]

Thank you!

We used those particular sockets to be consistent with the commercial building and the area where they'll be deployed.

[rlewis1946]

Love to watch someone who know what he's doing!

Beautiful hub. Wonder why you used 20 Amp/120 Volt outlets.

Be watching for your next video.

RL Atlanta, GA USA