I strongly recommend that you try derived reference and discontinue use of those VT-CT adapters. I don’t believe you will notice any difference in accuracy. The overwhelming majority of IoTaWatt users use derived with very satisfactory results. I cannot recall anyone ever switching from derived to direct because of inaccurate results.
If you want to continue with direct, I suggest you get a V5 unit that has barrel jacks for two additional VTs
We’ll see. From a hardware perspective, inputs 7 and 14 do not share anything, in fact, there is nothing shared by 7 and 14 that would not be affecting other inputs as well. You should try derived reference.