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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: power strip with individually monitorable outlet current
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: > > > 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 Jeeze... If you can live w/o true watts, I'd bet someone has a Hall effect sensor package that could tell you just amps. Such would be non-contact and would thus skirt the US issue, I'd bet. Trouble is, switcher loads are not nice & linear & low PF.... Still; I think I'll ask in sci.electronics design... -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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