power strip with individually monitorable outlet current
David Lesher
wb8foz at nrk.com
Wed Aug 10 01:37:28 UTC 2005
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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