Spikes & such ...

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  • chris_j_hunter
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    • Dec 2007
    • 1713

    Spikes & such ...

    from time to time, people (Paul G. most recently, over on uk_ha) mention problems with equipment going bust when power fails or MCBs trip or ... maybe an answer is to use a smoothing UPS for critical items, but 'sounds expensive to me ! And there's some uncertainty as to how the problem arises ... and getting detailed data could also be expensive !

    We've looked at power-meters on another thread, 'wonder if something similar but more sophisticated would be possible, to see what's going on - for example, maybe a voltage monitor, with enough resolution to see spikes, recordings from which could be included in the Idratek history files, to allow correlation with other events, to help work-out what happened & when ... ??
    Our self-build - going further with HA...
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