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Re: Monitor/Recorder for Residential Power Line Outages?

David Clayton (dcstar@myrealbox.com)
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:57:52 +1000

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:41:55 -0700, AES wrote:

> Any have pointers to a gadget that will monitor and log power
> outages or glitches on 110V or 220V residential electrical service?

> Looking for a home or retail level gadget that will work either
> connected to a dedicated computer, or preferably free-standing with
> periodic read-out to a computer, logging time and duration of both
> longer outages and short glitches (anything long enough to cause
> digital clocks and appliance displays to reset).

> Asking on this group because a lot of tech-savvy people seem to hang out
> on this group; glad to accept pointers to any other group.

> Any way to make the computer itself (e.g., Mac iBook) do the sensing and
> recording?

Doesn't UPS equipment output this sort of stuff on their serial ports to
the monitoring software that is usually supplied with them?

Regards,

David Clayton, e-mail: dcstar@XYZ.myrealbox.com
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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