Hi there?
Please, I am currently new in power electronics. I need help with building a single phase energy meter cable of measuring one voltage channel but multiple current channel. For the application I want to use it at, I would need to measure a minimum of 4 current loads and a maximum of 18 current loads. I would also want to measure the real and apparent powers, the real and apparent energies too. I would love to program these using Arduino based boards or ESP32 using the Arduino IDE on C/C++ programming languages. Using I2C or SPI communication protocol.
I have checked out the ADE7816 Energy IC. And I can see it can do what I want to do. Since it can support one channel voltage and 6-channels for current. And can be able to measure both power and energy (both real and apparent forms of them) on various A.C loads on a single phase line. But like I initially mentioned, I am currently new in power electronics.
And I couldn't find the application note to show me how to show a well detailed schematic diagram for the IC itself. Or even a starter guide on the Arduino programming side.
What I want to do is to be able to use any of the such IC or some other one like ADE7878 or ADE7953. to measure the energy using an MCU like Atmega328P or any other Arduino based board. Or even the ESP32 board using either I2C or SPI communication protocol. I would have used a PZEM module but I would be looking at huge cost as I increment the number of modules, and also, the problem of communication with the MCU using Serial Communication gives me ONLY A MAXIMUM OF 4 PZEM MODULES on 2560 and ESP32 boards. But most importantly, I am trying to reduce cost.
Please has anybody used this power IC to achieve similar goals in the past? If yes, please share.
Also, if you didn't use this particular IC but did the same thing or close, please kindly share.
If I could get an Energy IC that could be cascaded as the demand of the load increases and also have a head start on the Arduino programming. I could be forever grateful.
Regards,
AncII
