Solution for nuisance trips

[tom baker]

The Sonoff S31 is an small plug in adapter that monitors the load:



If the GFCI trips you'll get a notification on your app. its a pretty neat device as it monitors power useage.
$10.99 at Amazon. Those posts about GFCI nuisance trips are almost always false. If a GFCI trips its doing its job

 

[mopowr steve]

The Sonoff S31 is an small plug in adapter that monitors the load:


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If the GFCI trips you'll get a notification on your app. its a pretty neat device as it monitors power useage.
$10.99 at Amazon. Those posts about GFCI nuisance trips are almost always false. If a GFCI trips its doing its job

Well, for the most part I agree that they most likely are doing there job. BUT, there instances where high levels of RF and effects of PWM power supplies cause a high frequency to inject on the electric lines which do mess with gfci’s.
Had this condition just yesterday. New washing machine with electronic controls invariably would trip a P&S GFCI 30 seconds in from power up. So, I changed to a Leviton GFCI and no problem. Seems that when the power supply would ramp down after supplying some initial operations of the washer it would trip the P&S GFCI.

 

[Jps1006]

If the GFCI trips you'll get a notification on your app. its a pretty neat device as it monitors power useage.

Tom, are you sure it offers this feature? how will it send a notification if it doesn't have power? I would not expect it work this way, but hope it does, I could use that feature

the Q&A section of the product page has this:

"Q: Will this outlet send a notification if it loses power or drops off the network?
A: There is not a battery to maintain a state if power is removed. If it disconnects from the network it still can't send data so No for both. see less
By John Jones on March 9, 2021?"

 

[ptonsparky]

Could it have enough capacitance built in to allow a signal to be sent upon tripping of the GFCI (or whatever).

Tom, are you sure it offers this feature? how will it send a notification if it doesn't have power? I would not expect it work this way, but hope it does, I could use that feature

the Q&A section of the product page has this:

"Q: Will this outlet send a notification if it loses power or drops off the network?
A: There is not a battery to maintain a state if power is removed. If it disconnects from the network it still can't send data so No for both. see less
By John Jones on March 9, 2021?"

 

[mopowr steve]

Probably just like the ones sold for use with sump pumps. Sends signal ( or lack there-of ) via WiFi to alert a user that the power has been lost

 

[brantmacga]

The Legrand with Netatmo devices have this feature as well. You can specify any connected device to send an alert if it loses power; it knows this because that device will drop off the network. If the whole house loses power, you can get a notification for that as well because the gateway will stop communicating with the cloud API service.


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[ptonsparky]

Tom, are you sure it offers this feature? how will it send a notification if it doesn't have power?...

IDK. I was questioning the possibility of it using a capacitor for one notification. I would think that would be talked up in the Q&A of it has.