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Re: power strip with individually monitorable outlet current

  • From: Henry Yen
  • Date: Tue Aug 09 20:05:29 2005

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:37:04AM -0700, Mike Leber wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Justin Kreger wrote:
> > At the now defunct redundant.com we used baytech strips with the ds-3 
> > (not the circuit) modules to snmp enable the strips.  We were able to 
> > control each port, and monitor load on each port.
> > 
> > http://www.baytech.net/
> 
> I had moderate success with this suggestion.  Their technical support said
> the only product they had that does this is the 4 outlet RPC5 or RPC6
> (ethernet version vs serial version).  Unfortunately, it costs $644 each
> (lowest price I've found so far) and accomplishes it's individual
> monitoring by replicating power in and power out plus an ethernet port 4
> times.  Still, if it's the only one out there I guess they win (although
> at $150 per outlet, ouch, that goes over my $4000 budget for this).
> 
> http://www.baytech.net/products/prodlist.php?show=RPC5

well, you can save a bunch on a used one ($125 -- buy-it-now!):
   eBay: BAYTECH DS4-RPC REMOTE POWER w/DS72 & DS74 DAC MODULES
          (item 5797338782)

does western telematic make anything that might fit your needs?

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Henry Yen                                       Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer                       Hicksville, New York