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Illuminator User Manual
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Monitoring Electricity Use
You can connect electricity meters with pulse outputs to an Illuminator. This will allow you to
monitor exactly how much electricity is being used by each control and optionally include it in
reports.
NOTE: This feature works only if both of the following are true:
lighting scenario uses a single Illuminator control
Illuminator input number matches the Illuminator control number
To enable this functionality, do the following:
1. Connect the pulse output of each electricity meter to the corresponding Illuminator input -
meter monitoring electricity for control 1 must be connected to input 1, meter monitoring
electricity for control 2 must be connected to input 2 etc.
2. Set up Illuminator status inputs with electricity meters connected to them as Type
"Counter", with Units as "kWh"
3. Calibrate you counter inputs to the correct meter pulse rate and make the Illuminator
counter reading match your meter reading.
Please refer to "Calibrating Counter Inputs (if present)" earlier in this chapter for details on
how to do this.
4. Find out the electricity cost per kWh and enter it into the Consumption multiplier at the
bottom of the page. In this example the cost is $0.263 per kWh.
Enter this value into the page “Change Location and Lighting Setup” “Cost per kWh” field
as described on page 19.
