Scavenger hunt

Elab energy hunt-answers on your weblog!

Part one: Sensors and controls

• go to 10.14.17.1 and see if you can open something

• go to 10.14.18.1 and do the same thing

• try again with 10.14.19.1, what do you find? - Fan switches

• go to 10.14.41.1 and look at the energy use in the elab, then turn on the hot tea water maker, which circuit is it on? -

• go to 10.14.62.x and check out the weather right now. What is a W/m2? - watts per square meter

• check out 10.14.8.10 to see the earthquake activity here

Part two: egauges

• Go to 10.14.8.1

• check out the solar production in the elab, and all of the energy use

• see if you can find the time you just turned on the hot water tea maker

• see if you can find the time you turned on the fans (you may have to leave them on for a minute or two)

• when did the wind turbine mysteriously come on recently?

• is it working now? no

• go to 10.14.8.2

• how much solar power is generated on campus? Around 200 kW

• how much is generated at the elab? 60 kW

• how much is generated at the PPA array behind the elab? 80 kW

• how much solar power is generated at each building? Between 20 and 40 kW at all normal buildings

• how much is used at each location? Between 10 and 20 kW

• when is it used? From 6am to 10 pm

• what does this tell you? People are constantly in the e lab during the school day

• what dorm uses the most energy? PerryFiske

• when do the dorm lights “go off”? 12 am to 6am

• when is the use the least? 12 am to 6 am

• how could you tell a refrigerator from any other load? Refrigerators spike

• what does a hot water heater look like? Huge cylinder

• what does a stove look like? Has heaters on top of a huge box (large hot plate)

• how could you detect an air conditioner that was left on all night? Look

• which of the faculty cottages is using the most energy? At the intervals at nighttime and spikes

• when does cottage 3 hot water heater timer go on? 6am or 6pm

• when did they run out of hot water? After about an hour

• when did cottage 3 do some cooking? Lunch times

• compare these with cottage 7

• what was the weather last Friday using the solar data? Rain

• when did it rain that day? Early in the morning

Part three: skyspark

• go to skyspark.hpa.edu

• login as guest/guest

• check out buildings and users on the upper campus

Part four: elab2.hpa.edu

• go to elab2.hpa.edu (I wasn't able to log into the website)

• login as isr/p——77

• what was the lowest temp today and when?

• what was the max power from the PPA panels today?

• what was the max on the longest day of the year?

• the shortest?

• what is the usual campus energy use at night?

• what time was someone working in the middle classrooms today?

• what time was someone working in the monlab today?

• when did the tennis center use the lights?

• what was the weather that day?

• when did someone use the microwave oven today for 2 minutes?

• when do the security lights come on at the elab every night?

Part five: EMC server 5

• go to 10.14.4.5

• login as isr/p——77

• click on “monitor”

• hit “go”

• use the checkboxes to select some items for comparison and graph (above)

• play with the date and time selection to see more

Part six: Mango

• go to 10.14.4.163

• login as admin/admin

• look for “data sources”

• look at data points, and check some of the egauge values

Summary:

• Which of the tools you used was the most interesting? - I really liked the Solar power because I was able to see the entire campus’ power generation and usage

• Which was the most accurate? - The energy usage/generation website

• Which was the easiest to use? - The fan toggle

• Which would you use for an energy project? - The EMC server or the egauges