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CT Clamp Question
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 9:57 am
by RobM
Can I use any type of CT clamp with my F3600, or does it have to be the Fox specific device?
Re: CT Clamp Question
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:35 am
by Dave Foster
Fox don’t make the CT clamps, but it has to be the correct specification i.e. split core 100A/33.33mA - Fox use the CTA016
You can get them quite cheap from here
https://theecosupermarket.co.uk/produc ... inverters/
Or
https://www.powerland.co.uk/products/f ... aio-ranges
Or
https://www.tradesparky.com/solarspark ... aio-ranges
Re: CT Clamp Question
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:18 pm
by RobM
Many thanks Dave
Can the Clamp go either side of the generation meter (emlite type) as in:
F3600 > clamp > isolator > meter > Isolator > CU
or
F3600 > Isolator > meter > CT clamp > Isolator > CU
Re: CT Clamp Question
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:36 pm
by Dave Foster
RobM wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:18 pm
Many thanks Dave
Can the Clamp go either side of the generation meter (emlite type) as in:
F3600 > clamp > isolator > meter > Isolator > CU
or
F3600 > Isolator > meter > CT clamp > Isolator > CU
It needs to measure load vs export so ideally wants to be as near to the smart meter as possible - if you don't have an EV then fit it to the live feed out of the smart meter, that way everything that happens before the CT clamp is house load, and everything passing through it is what is left ~export. , following your annotation would be:
F3600 > Isolator > meter > Isolator > CU> CT clamp > Smart Meter
Re: CT Clamp Question
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 3:57 pm
by RobM
No smart meter yet, and no chance of having one fitted this side of July, plus the meter is outside the house some 15 metres away from the inverter, so a long cable run from the Clamp back to the F3600 in the loft
I have two CUs in the following configuration
Ring and lights etc > 1st CU > Tails > Henley Block > Dumb Meter > Main Power
F3600 > Isolator > meter > Isolator > 2nd CU > Tails > Henley Block > Dumb Meter > Main Power
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