NYSEG and National Grid both ask for an account number, but once I get a
person on the phone I say "Can you look up the location by the meter
number" and they *sigh* and say "well I have to look in a different
system, but yes." And then they go do it. Then it's always, "nobody
else reported an outage, are you /sure/ it's not a breaker?" And like
yeah, I can see your popped fuse at the bottom of the access Rd, I may
be the only one out, but it's definitely out.
If you compare runtime to cost and space, DC rectifier actually looks
pretty good compared to a UPS with external battery battery packs. But
we still sometimes have UPS's because that's what made sense financially
at that site. ....and I can't deny that any helper monkey can plug in
an AC outlet whereas DC seems to fry people's brains.
On 3/12/2021 10:44 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
Its irritating,comed requires account number to even make a report.
We are working on that runtime, but with APC it's just too much
physical space
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:17 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My philosophy now is that I should have 12+ hours of battery
power, and enough smarts on the network to know that the AC power
is off or on. Then when I start to get alerts I have lots of time
to figure out what's going on and plenty of time to deal with it.
I wish I had a more direct answer to the original question, but I
don't think there is one. As a tenant at a site, I do like to
make note of the meter number so I can call the elec co and ask if
there's a known outage, and/or report an outage if I know about it.
On 3/11/2021 9:03 PM, Colin Stanners wrote:
For quick and easy monitoring of lower-priority sites (e.g.
relatives' homes) I recommend putting a static IP on their CPE
and allowing pings, and making a free account on a site such as
https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/
<https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/> . If either the internet or
power goes out, you get an email within 5 minutes. You can also
setup additional monitoring to differentiate those causes by
putting the CPE on a UPS and putting a simple NATed web server
behind it (not on UPS).
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 7:42 PM Andrew Haninger
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
My electric company installed a smart meter on my house a few
years ago. I get an email when the power is out and another
when it comes back on. Not terribly useful when I'm home all
the time, but I've been wishing I could get the same email
when my parents' power goes out, too. We live in the same
city, but different areas.
Maybe a battery-powered Pi that you can also plug in to mains
and it will send the email when it switches to battery.
Probably also want an LTE modem in case the internet goes out
at the same time.
Andy
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021, 13:48 Josh Luthman
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
If you have your own meter you might get a notification.
Not sure I'd depend on it.
We have meters with both providers that have our area in
multiple locations. Sometimes we get a heads up, most of
the time we don't (referring to planned events, outages I
get a call many hours after it gets fixed).
Josh Luthman
24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:23 PM Steve Jones
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We dont run our own meters, power is built in to
leases so we dont have account numbers with the power
utilities. Is there a place we can register for
alerts on regional outages?
an example is right now one of our sites that has a
bad UPS thats replacement is on order. It went down a
bit ago and looking on the providers outage map, its
a planned outage for tree trimming. We could have
planned around that.
I have notifications for my home account with ComEd
and its nice, I know when my power goes out and get
the ETA notices as they update them
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