Plugwise circle for perilex

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Plugwise circle for perilex

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Ruud,
First: I'm pretty sure they won't. There's not a large market for these plugs and it won't give them $M's of revenue.

Why would you want to use a Circle on your ventilation system?
Most of the ventilation units that use a perilex plug have a switch in the kitchen which has 3 options:
1- ventilation=on
2- ventilation=faster
3- ventilation=fastest
Result: you may never turn it OFF. A Circle with perilex would turn it OFF.

What I did to switch the mechanical ventilation can be found on my website, under 'How?', section "ventilation"
http://www.domoticaworld.com

So if you want to use it to monitor electricity usage you could do this:
-Use an RFXCOM RFXMeter and RFXPower
-Use the ventilation systems specs to find out the power usage. Use this as a 'fact'.
I don't think you can use a Circle to measure the power usage on a ventilation system with Perilex plug as these have 3 Live wires (hence the 5-pin perilex plug).

Hope this helps a bit..
Cheers
DJ
Last edited by DJF3 on Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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