Come on you tool lovers out there. Has anyone heard of the device I described on the subject line? Anything close?
Several of my smartplugs let me know if they stop receiving power. The notification arrives on my phone, so even if i’m out i know there’s no electricity to the house. my parents often go away from home for weeks at a time and we use one on their freezer in case anything goes wrong.
What situation is this for?
We have one for our business. Years ago someone had accidently shut off power in a shared electrical panel to a freezer. It had thawed by the time we discovered it and cost us thousands in product. The screechy alarm has saved us a couple times since then.
If my girls’ light goes out when it’s supposed to be on, and they are on timed cycles, I want an alarm. Messing with those light and dark cycles can mess your flowers up. Same for the water pumps, fans, etc. depending on the setup. I imagine with some pets like exotic fish or reptiles you’ll want extra notice if their habitat is going awry before they get ill.
Maybe something is tripping a breaker and they wanna know when it’s happening while they track the cause and repair. Or an out building/shed/coop has issues with weather and shoddy power stability, needs that breaker flipped again.
Possibly a deep freezer that doesn’t have it’s own No Power alarm, or that function broke, and they want to have that peace of mind back.
I’ve known many a use for them. If ALL the power is out it’s gonna be obvious whatever that’s going to is out also. But, for something where you don’t go to that space regularly, hard to tell quickly if powered, and has something sensitive needing power they are a nice peace of mind item (that usually costs less than whatever needs power that badly being replaced if you didn’tnotice in time).
Wow… very thorough.
In my case, we have a sump pump which protects the basement from flooding when it rains. If the power goes out while we are asleep, we cannot mitigate the rising water.
So — we need something that will awaken us.
Pedestrian compared to some of the scenarios you mentioned here.
Haha! I forgot about those uses too! We live in the desert now but I grew up in grass and swamplands. Haven’t had to think of a sump pump or dry-lok in forever. Very, very important alarm need if you want to keep things, that aren’t moldy. Oh the memories. We started our first grow in a moldy basement!
Here’s hoping you were spared the blackout during torrential rains.
And I suppose this is on me, but we bought this place which met all our dream features and when we heard it had a sump pump… having grown up in a desert myself, I didn’t exactly understand the ramifications.
I’m a bit stunned there isn’t a simple device that has a small battery in it that remains charged until it needs to scare you out of bed.
I learned in this thread about “smart plugs” which seem like they could be purposed to this task but even that’s not spot on.
Dude forgot to pay his power bill but has money to blow on devices that alert him that he forgot?
We live in a part of town with very tall trees — when it gets windy, the power goes out due to branches falling.
Why do I find these so cool? Man, something for everything out there.
Would you perhaps be interested in a light that comes on every time I get a boner?
When I started calling the hardware store the toy store my family thought I was saying tool store. Then at one point someone paid attention to my excitement for a trip and what I actually said. Much eye rolling.
