7 Sep
2007
7 Sep
'07
12:22 a.m.
On 9/6/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
OK, my power company sucks. I have brownouts and
power outages all
too frequently. Yet when I look at the statistics recorded by the
public utilities commission, it seems obvious to me that they aren't
showing an accurate record of what happens at my house.
Unsurprising.
So I'm looking for a device (I'm fairly
certain I've seen these
before) that I plug into a wall outlet and it keeps a log of voltage
sags, brownouts and outages.
Any suggestions?
I've used this one...
http://www.tequipment.net/FlukePowerQualityVOLT.html
You'll need a Windows PC to run their EventView app. I'd always
intended to stick a serial analyzer between the PC and the VR101S, but
I didn't happen to have an HP 4951 on hand, and I never got around to
building a 2-serial-port box with some serial tracing app. I
_suspect_ it wouldn't be difficult to write a simple C app to dump the
VR101S to a comma-separated-value file (as EventView will do upon
request), but I didn't happen to take those thought to conclusion.
-ethan