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User guide Voltcraft SEM-PRO 5000

Home

Main menu

The main menu can be found in the lower part of the window. Here you can choose between the

items Home, Compare, Chart, Overview and Settings.

Time window

You can choose between the time periods Day, Week, Month or Year. In the calendar you can pick

the desired time. The present day is shown in boldface. Below the calendar you can choose the unit

in which the values are shown, possible units are costs (in the configured currency), energy

consumption (in kWh) or emission (in CO

). The user interface reloads automatically after clicking

a button.

Main window

You can show or hide the views Consumption, History, Overview, Target performance and Budget

by clicking on the respective buttons. Multiple views can be selected at the same time.

• Consumption: The three doughnut charts show how the consumption is distributed to the 3

phases, to base load and active load and to the different consumption classes (heat, cooling,

washing, media and light and “not assigned”).

• History: The bar chart shows the energy consumption within the selected time period in the

next smaller unit. Clicking on one of the bars shows the bar chart in the next smaller unit.

• Overview: The left column shows the total consumption within the selected time period and

the minimum, maximum and mean within this period. The right column shows the currently

Summary of content (11 pages)

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User guide Voltcraft SEM-PRO 5000 Home Main menu The main menu can be found in the lower part of the window. Here you can choose between the items Home, Compare, Chart, Overview and Settings. Time window You can choose between the time periods Day, Week, Month or Year. In the calendar you can pick the desired time. The present day is shown in boldface.
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measured values for the total power and the individual phases. The user interface reloads automatically every 3 seconds. • Target performance: In the chart, the target value for the selected time period is shown in green and the actual consumption is shown in red. The target value is calculated as monthly advance payment minus the consumption in the current month up to now (until 11:59 pm of the previous day).
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Compare Time window As in the other menus, you can choose between the time periods day, week, month and year in the calendar. In the upper and lower calendar you can select the two time periods you would like to compare. As default values the current day and the same day in the previous week are preselected. Below the calendar you can choose the unit in which the values are shown. Main window • Bar chart: The chart shows the energy consumption (resp.
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Chart Main window In the main window there are the tabs chart and pattern, further tabs are opened upon viewing patterns. In the tab chart the energy consumption can be shown for a maximum time period of 24 hours. Per default the energy consumption of the current day is shown. When you move the mouse over the chart, a small pop-up window opens which shows the time and the power measured at this point in the chart.
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electric kettle the section should contain the complete heating procedure including switching on and off. • Live view: In order to get a live view of the energy consumption, you have to check the box “Live” in the upper left part of the main window. Then the consumption within the last 30 minutes is shown, the view updates automatically every 10 seconds. To return to the static view uncheck the box again. Please note: The data are available in a per-second granularity only for the last 31 days.
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• When clicking in one of the rows Heat, Cooling, Washing, Media and light or “not assigned”, a list of all appliances is shown that were assigned to this category according to the saved patterns. Using the buttons “csv” and “pdf” below the spreadsheet you can export the view in one of the two file formats. Settings In the menu settings you find the following items: • Time zone & language: ◦ Time settings: Here you can choose the time zone and set the time of the Voltcraft SEM5000 PRO.
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• Tariff settings: In the field ”consumption levels” you can configure how many consumption levels there are in your electricity tariff. You can configure up to four consumption levels. For each level enter the minimum consumption, the basic rate, the price per kWh in the high-rate tariff and, if applicable, the price per kWh in the low-rate tariff. The assignment to one of the consumption levels is done automatically according to your power consumption in the last year.
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times. To find the correction factor, divide the difference obtained for the electricity meter in your house by the difference obtained for the Voltcraft SEM-5000 PRO. The following table shows an example how to calculate the correction factor: Energie value Monday 8 AM Sonday 8 AM Difference Electricity meter 140 198.2 58.2 SEM-5000 PRO 20.5 80.5 60 Difference electricity meter / Difference SEM-5000 PRO = 0.97 You can now adjust the correction factor with the slider.
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point” and save your input. Reboot the device using the button “reboot” at the very bottom of the menu settings. It is advisable with reception problems to install the USB wireless adapter (optional, not included) by means of a USB extension cable (length max. 1.8 m) outside the distribution box. ◦ LAN: In the item LAN DHCP is activated per default. If you unckeck the box “DHCP”, you can enter the parameters for the LAN connection manually. Afterwards, save your settings and reboot the device.
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table with 5 columns; the first column contains the time stamp in local time, the following 4 columns contain the measurement values for the sum of the 3 phases and for the phases 1, 2 and 3 each in the unit kilowatt. ▪ Index data: Die index data can be sent monthly, weekly or daily as zip-compressed csv file. The file contains all the hourly and daily calculated consumptions and costs within the selected time period.
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Now click on “install”. When the update process is finished, a popup window appears. The device must be rebooted after the successful update. • Save and restore data: ◦ Export: With the Voltcraft SEM-5000 PRO you can export settings, measurement data and index data. ▪ Settings: The settings are exported in a cfg file. It contains all your configurations, so that in the case your device must be replaced you can easily recover them.