[83278] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: power strip with individually monitorable outlet current
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Tue Aug 9 21:38:02 2005
X-Original-To: wb8foz@panix.com
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:37:28 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0508091628110.6936-100000@ruby.he.net> from "Mike Leber" at Aug 09, 2005 04:37:04 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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...
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