okay YouTube let's build a kilowatt meter except this will be a 240 to 30 volt split-phase meter
so what I need is a got a double gang bah except with six and one universal exposed WorkCover first
orange box so that's this piece it was set up with the two outlet or switch openings what I did was
open this one up as big as I could so that this guy fit right inside of there so this is the PZ
II M 0 6 1 used a jig saw with a metal cutting blade and a file just to open that up so there's
my meter I've got 20 amp 220 or 250 volt plugs on all of my devices but I'm going to put a plug in
there that way you'll be able to plug your device in here and then get a reading of the power and
then for a cord you have these old dryer extension cords so these are the 20 amp 250 volt so let me
show you how we're gonna wire this up I got to do a little bit of prep work figure out how I want to
do this probably I've got a cable clamp I think if I come in here with the cable so I'm going to cut
off the end of this extension cord and I'll run that in the Box here put a cable clamp on it to
hold it in place and then we'll wire up wires to the back of the outlet will run one of the
wires through the current transformer and then we'll have to run to make two little pigtails
to come off of the two hot wires so with 2 230 volt whatever you want to call it you've got
line 1 and line 2 on opposite sides of the outlet these outlets have no neutral connection there's
a ground which is hooked up here and then you have your two lines we've got 230 volts or 240
volts between these two pins now I could have purchased a european-style p3 kilowatt meter but
it would have the wrong plugs on it so I figure this way I'll make the meter fit the plugs that
I have three dollars three dollars and a dollar and about six dollars so a little over ten bucks
to make the box the meter I think runs around 15 so that's about the price of a p3 kilowatt meter
you'll pay about $30 for one of those okay YouTube I think I'm ready to put this together got my cord
in strain relief on there I've got the ends of the cable stripped and I cut off about a foot
of the end which has a receptacle that was on the end of this extension cord and I think I'll keep
that if I need to make an adapter I've got that I've got my outlet I had to cut the little ears
off of the receptacle because it's got to fit up inside of here and then I also ground just
a little bit off the sides to get it to fit into this GFCI opening here okay I think I'm ready to
put this together one tip is put these wires in first if you're using up one of these stand off
cover plates like this you can't get into the screw terminals you can get to the screws but
you can't get the wire in the ends it'll clear but the side of the case or the cover gets in the way
so I've got to kind of fit those in curly have to bend the wires down once you get them in because
you can see how tight it is in there you're just not going to be able to easily get your wires and
so yeah I think I'm gonna do that I'm gonna cut a little notch right there that way I can slide
this side on to that screw because I won't be able to get the screw in there so that I'll do that and
I'll be right back okay I think I got it all wired up it is really a tight fit you to get everything
together and so what I did I have my 220 cable coming in here so it's got the the green ground
in the middle and then the line 1 and line 2 so I ran one wire over to this side and picked up
the white wire on the back of the meter I put this current transformer on this wire that's hooked to
the second terminal here so the I have my white wire on the top coming down to the bottom then
I have the you can see I ran the black wire I put the black tape on through the current transformer
and then I have the black wire here hook to the black wire there so I've got my white black and
then I've got my two current transformer wires so now you got to get this guy down and I should be
able to split the case right there over the Oh looks like my green how did that come off of oh
that's my my little pigtail I forgot to hook that up to ground so let me get that I'll get this all
stuffed together without it falling apart and show you what it looks like okay one minor fix
I had to do right on this top corner here it just interferes with the little threaded tab
that the screw goes in so I used my dremel flex shaft with the flat disk and just rounded that
corner off ever so slightly until it fits so there we go it pops into place let me get this
all seated in there and then I got to try to get the screw tight on that corner actually having
this split actually makes it a little easier to get the meter in because you can kind of pop the
lid apart just a little bit you have to put the meter down this way to get the wires in and then
that makes it a little bit wider so over here it's hard to get in so you can kind of spread
the top a little bit so let me get that popped into place and then let's see if this thing works