Wow, that would make what I’d like to do so much easier! Thanks for sharing.
I am assuming you only used the L and Gnd connections as @overeasy said those are the two that are used?
Just a word of caution here that those male connectors are usually too wide to use side by side into the IoTaWatt. If they are more than 11mm wide you will have a problem. You would probably need to use every other input and a thin regular plug between. That would limit you to eight (1,3,5,7,8,10,12,14). To get around i’d recommend using jacks on both ends and get some very short male-male 3.5mm cords.
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I ordered this too but took longer to get here and didn’t need them anyway. Your warning is definitely valid but I got lucky and only need to extend 2 CTs for the main lines and the connectors fit side by side on the iotawatt
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As I eagerly await delivery of my new iotawatt, I want to make sure that I have the wiring correct as I understand it…
I am extending 2 CTs using CAT6 cable and connecting each end to the same 3.5mm markings. Here is what I have (male end at iotawatt and female at the CTs).
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Wow this is a cool idea. Here I am thinking I’d need a second iotawatt, but I’m already having a long cat6 run tomorrow (probably ~50 metres, well under the 100m limit) for a different monitoring system while we have a different upgrade trench going through the area.
I knew I could extend other CT clamps with twisted pair, for some reason I didn’t expect that to work for the iotawatt setup!