How to configure CT to work with iota watt

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I got a new solar + battery installed and in the process of replacing my existing two solar inverters, the electrician cut and threw away the two CTs that were monitoring those two circuits.

I haven’t managed to find a replacement here in Australia (and shipping from the US appear unaffordable , was quoted US$130 to ship two CTs !!)

I have a few CTs around from other devices including 3 shelly 50A CTs

How could I go in using those with the iotawatt? The “generic” configuration let me set those but I would need to know how many turns and phase lead. No idea on how to get access to this information.

Would anyone have any ideas on a solution, either getting new CT here in Oz natively supported by the iotawatt, how to use Shelly’s CT or something else?

TIA.

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I am not sure which Shelly CT’s you have but they have some on their knowledge base and it has the appropriate information there: CT 120A

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mentioned it in my post: 50A ; the 3000:1 does this correlate to the number of turns?

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Sorry, I didn’t catch that those were the ones you were trying to use. Yes 3000 is the number of turns.

https://docs.iotawatt.com/en/master/CTconfig.html#generic-ct