{"id":4408,"date":"2019-05-01T00:07:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T07:07:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"4408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4408","title":{"rendered":"Energy Sensor gives erratic readings with custom generator."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article refers to the <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-energy-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Energy Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-NRG<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>Things to check:<\/p>\n<p>-Check your readings with a multimeter. Do the readings from the multimeter differ greatly from the Energy Sensor?<\/p>\n<p>-What load are you using? The internal load or your own external load?<\/p>\n<p>With homemade generators, as well as with non-KidWind generators, it is possible to exceed the power capacity of the internal resistor. The internal 30 &Omega; resistor is rated for 1 Watt. If your power production is at or over 1 Watt for more than a few seconds, the resistor will overheat and the Energy Sensor readings will make it appear that the generator is no longer working. <\/p>\n<p>We recommend using an external load consisting of a power resistor that will accommodate the power produced by the generator.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article refers to the Things to check: -Check your readings with a multimeter. Do the readings from the multimeter differ greatly from the Energy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5369],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gdx-nrg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}