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What situation is this for?
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.
I have one of these, it can run my sump pump for around 8-10 hours if the power is off. Make sure you get a quality deep cycle battery, such as a marine rated battery. Due to the fact that I had the battery back up, my homeowner's insurance will cover my basement for an additional $10,000 over what they normally cover for basement flooding.
Sump pump backup
This is likely the direction I need to go.
The buzzer solution would require a lot of work. This just costs a good deal up front but it saves on the mitigation maneuvering which is not fun.
Thanks for the link.
Dude forgot to pay his power bill but has money to blow on devices that alert him that he forgot?
Maybe they live in Texas and are getting ready for possible power outages during the winter storms. Not sure what it would be for, I always hated that my battery backup for my work computer would beep when the power went out
Lol. Seriously though, even when I'm asleep, if the power goes out I hear it. There's so much fucking noise generated by fans, computers, etc... that when it happens the silence is deafening.
We live in a part of town with very tall trees — when it gets windy, the power goes out due to branches falling.
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.