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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Another post from someone probably not understanding
consolidation functions ! I thought I did until I switched my trend to
show MAX instead of average.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I measure the power used and trend kwh. At </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>midnight</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, my read script
resets and just feeds into rrrd an ever increasing number (accumulated kwh) throughout
the day so as to produce a saw tooth pattern. Works great, however when I
trend the MAX, I “assumed” I would see the maximum value for the 24
hr period.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I think this was the script I used to create the rrd</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>rrdtool create /var/rrd/kw.rrd --start 1167177600 --step 600
DS:P1:GAUGE:1300:0:100 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:1440 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:4:2160
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:12:8760 RRA:MIN:0.5:288:1825 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:1825</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The trend can be viewed at <a
href="http://www.rjconway.homeip.net/">www.rjconway.homeip.net</a> select
[Power] radio button for kwh and redraw, you will see the saw tooth, now select
[max] . It seems to be giving one max value per two days value changing
at </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>midday</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> not </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>midnight</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>My controls only work in IE, (I broke firefox)</span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Rob</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>australia</span></font></p>
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