boy do i love my 2x iotawatts! They are so reliable, provide me such stable and accurate data every 5sec!
im SO sad to see this post (but i do get the reasons, and i am hopeful! as i have followed the iotawatt production challenges over the years):
2x questions, please: 1- Is there any place, anywhere, that has stock of the IotaWatt unit (or a full kit)? (or has anyone had one delivered recently, and if so from where) (i do realize production has stopped, but im not clear if iotawatt is produced elsewhere maybe, or if overeasy was the only source)
2- Does @overeasy have any plans to release the latest PCB and more importantly the latest bill of materials maybe?
(i have seen: IoTaWatt/Hardware at master · boblemaire/IoTaWatt · GitHub but no BOM that i can see there,
I also have seen the excellent work by this user, but i was hoping for the offical parts/BOM so it matches to 2x i have - or better yet id love to order a kit to have as backup, and im willing to pay much more than list):
thanks
a thank you / I love iotawatt pict (just a few of 100s of visualizations I have from IotaWatt’s great data):
As previously stated, the small business environment in the US is now untenable. I’m working with a third party to produce and sell the latest V6.4 unit in another country. This should result in wider availability.
At this time, the schematics, gerbers and BOM are not intended for publication. They only benefit counterfeiters in Asia that do not respect the terms of the open software license.
while that is probably very true, they also benefit others like me - who don’t know much, but like to tinker with things and like the diy approach (which also does not bring any money to you). Iotawatt was my first SMD solder - very scary at first - but it was one of the more satisfying things in a long time for me (even though the final product is not there yet)
thank you for the reply, This helps cause I had been searching everywhere thinking that the hardware was all open source too. ( i totally get your reasoning for not publishing it).
I also get that its not just as simple as, hey why cant he just jack up (double) the price of the iotawatt to offset this new uncertainty, as that could leave you with much un-sold inventory / other biz risks as well.
so i will keep an eye out for any announcements re: new stock!
(im really looking to buy a 3rd iotawatt, as well as a 4th to keep on hand as a backup) i currently have 2x iotawatt + 1x emporia
(Which makes it so every circuit is monitored with some overlap as well - but would love to make it 3x iota!)
more why i love iota: good luck finding another local first power monitoring solution that can enable things like this (press play button on the animated gif:); (is ~5sec interval feed into grafana live, and sent to graphite as well)
