rt66electric
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- Oklahoma
does anybody know of an inexpensive way to monitor line dropouts??
trpubleshooting Quiz
Without going into specific location.
I need to install a monitor or device to time-stamp power dropouts.
My customer (alarm company monitored) is receiving emails that their "machine" is having power dropouts at random times
Over 8 occurrences over the last month. The Ups keeps the brain working but, the rest of the machine goes into"hardware failure" mode.
The machine is located 125 ft away from the panel via under ground conduits, heavy equipment is blocking the junction boxes and preventing me from checking the "wirenut connections".
I have called the power lineman, he gave he a few failure times, but the power company swicthing times do not match up with the monitoring company times????
Is their a low-cost time/relay machine that I can hook-up at either the breaker -and -or- at the machine to verify the dropouts??
My first guess is that the UPS is too-sensitive, My second guess is power company and wind/trees. My third guess is bad connection at the machine near the underground feed (very difficult to get to the connections) My fourth guess is "We had lots of rain" wait a while till the conduits dries out.
I could put in a line voltage relay and wire it like a "motor stop circuit" that would stop a clock at he first dropout, but that would not tell me if it was the power company dropping out or if it was in the premises wiring??
Dennis
trpubleshooting Quiz
Without going into specific location.
I need to install a monitor or device to time-stamp power dropouts.
My customer (alarm company monitored) is receiving emails that their "machine" is having power dropouts at random times
Over 8 occurrences over the last month. The Ups keeps the brain working but, the rest of the machine goes into"hardware failure" mode.
The machine is located 125 ft away from the panel via under ground conduits, heavy equipment is blocking the junction boxes and preventing me from checking the "wirenut connections".
I have called the power lineman, he gave he a few failure times, but the power company swicthing times do not match up with the monitoring company times????
Is their a low-cost time/relay machine that I can hook-up at either the breaker -and -or- at the machine to verify the dropouts??
My first guess is that the UPS is too-sensitive, My second guess is power company and wind/trees. My third guess is bad connection at the machine near the underground feed (very difficult to get to the connections) My fourth guess is "We had lots of rain" wait a while till the conduits dries out.
I could put in a line voltage relay and wire it like a "motor stop circuit" that would stop a clock at he first dropout, but that would not tell me if it was the power company dropping out or if it was in the premises wiring??
Dennis
