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Ting Fire Safety Program

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Rjryan

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Trophy Club, Texas
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Master Electrician
State Farm Insurance is offering a program to monitor an entire home's electrical system called " Ting Fire Safety Program "
Apparently you plug in this device, and by the animation shows on your smart phone, the entire house's electrical wiring.
According to the description they are looking for arc faults.
www.whiskerlabs.com
www.tingfire.com.
Has anyone had any experience with this program and can better explain how this really works.
As I understand arc fault detection, they do not detect an electrical connection that is just overheating.
I have run into explanations on things, like cheap china ceiling fans and other devise can trip arc faults.
State Farm says they will front the first $1000 for repairs.
Are you uninsurable if they find a fault in your house.
How does the device go through open switches?
If anyone could really explain this program.
 
Bmore.recs

Bmore.recs

Member
Location
Baltimore, Maryland
Occupation
Journeyman Electrician
Rjryan said:
State Farm Insurance is offering a program to monitor an entire home's electrical system called " Ting Fire Safety Program "
Apparently you plug in this device, and by the animation shows on your smart phone, the entire house's electrical wiring.
According to the description they are looking for arc faults.
www.whiskerlabs.com
www.tingfire.com.
Has anyone had any experience with this program and can better explain how this really works.
As I understand arc fault detection, they do not detect an electrical connection that is just overheating.
I have run into explanations on things, like cheap china ceiling fans and other devise can trip arc faults.
State Farm says they will front the first $1000 for repairs.
Are you uninsurable if they find a fault in your house.
How does the device go through open switches?
If anyone could really explain this program.
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I actually have Ting. It's pretty basic. I get a weekly report that shows a graph of the supply voltage from the utility. It shows outages, if any, and other basic info. I got because it was free. I haven't had any electrical issues so I don't know how it acts when faults are detected.
 
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Rjryan

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Location
Trophy Club, Texas
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Master Electrician
Bmore.recs said:
I actually have Ting. It's pretty basic. I get a weekly report that shows a graph of the supply voltage from the utility. It shows outages, if any, and other basic info. I got because it was free. I haven't had any electrical issues so I don't know how it acts when faults are detected.
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dkidd said:
This has been discussed on the Forums before.
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dkidd said:
This has been discussed on the Forums before.
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Tell me when and the title it was under
 
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zbang

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Yuck. Reading their website does not make me comfortable. The device depends on ting's servers and your Internet connection to operate (what if they stop)? From what I can tell, the app doesn't talk to the device, it talks to the server. One sensor comes with a year subscription to monitoring, but I can't see what subsequent years cost. The web page says nothing about how it actually works and how they know it works correctly.
 
gadfly56

gadfly56

Senior Member
Location
New Jersey
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Professional Engineer, Fire & Life Safety
Rjryan said:
I don't know what site you are on, but on the top of Mike Holts Forum, there is "Search Forum"
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You mean like:

Ting Electrical System Protection plugin Device

Has anyone heard about these devices? They claim to be able to monitor your electrical system by plugging in the device to a receptacle and monitor through an app. https://www.tingfire.com/how-ting-works/
forums.mikeholt.com

"TING" arc fault device

Any experience? HO insurance offering for free. Almost NO factual engineering data on line, looks like sends data to 3rd party, which I will not do (home lab with PWM circuits generates LOTS of EMI, would continually get alarms I suspect) Also wonder if insurance companies would use to...
forums.mikeholt.com

Ting electrical monitor for residential

My daughter's home insurance company is offering a free WI-fi device called Ting that plugs into one outlet and it is supposed help protect the home from arc fault fires and provides "power quality" information for the home owner. A combination arc fault breaker or arc fault replacement...
forums.mikeholt.com

It wasn't that hard; just enter "ting" into the search box.
 
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Rjryan

Member
Location
Trophy Club, Texas
Occupation
Master Electrician
gadfly56 said:
You mean like:

Ting Electrical System Protection plugin Device

Has anyone heard about these devices? They claim to be able to monitor your electrical system by plugging in the device to a receptacle and monitor through an app. https://www.tingfire.com/how-ting-works/
forums.mikeholt.com

"TING" arc fault device

Any experience? HO insurance offering for free. Almost NO factual engineering data on line, looks like sends data to 3rd party, which I will not do (home lab with PWM circuits generates LOTS of EMI, would continually get alarms I suspect) Also wonder if insurance companies would use to...
forums.mikeholt.com

Ting electrical monitor for residential

My daughter's home insurance company is offering a free WI-fi device called Ting that plugs into one outlet and it is supposed help protect the home from arc fault fires and provides "power quality" information for the home owner. A combination arc fault breaker or arc fault replacement...
forums.mikeholt.com

It wasn't that hard; just enter "ting" into the search box.
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I put Ting Fire Safety Program with no results.
 
dkidd

dkidd

Senior Member
Location
here
Occupation
PE
dkidd said:
Just search for Ting.
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Forum Search Tip

The search capabilities on this forum don't seem to include searches with the requirement to include all words in the results.

A Google feature that can work around this is the capablility to search a site using Google's options.

For instance, you can search the forum using the syntax site:forums.mikeholt.com word word word.

As an example

site:forums.mikeholt.com receptacle tap off 240 volt circuit

HTH.
 
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