I am posting this to check if my understanding is correct. We live off-grid and I am interested in really understanding battery consumption.
The graphs are from Home Assistant.
Peak #1 was heating water on the electric kitchen hob. Load is purely resistive, therefore apparent load = load.
Peak #2 was house water pump jumping on. Load is inductive, therefore apparent load has reactive component.
@dognose So my batteries delivered the shown 972 W, correct?
@MikeD I am aware that this is not the measurement that you proposed, because the peak is just a lucky observation and not a proper integral to determine the energy consumed (in kWh) required to calculate the power factor.
The Victron MQTT broker has sensor.victron_mqtt_c06xxxx3d76f_vebus_276_vebus_energy_inverter_to_ac_out
Wouldn’t it be cool to have the same for reactive power (and apparent power)?
I guess that’s what solidstore (sorry, new users can only mention 2 users, LOL) meant in VRM only show half AC output - #10 by solidstore
Excited to read your comments!