Power Quality Monitoring at Home

richlevy · 06-21-2009, 09:54 AM

We recently purchased new wired smoked detectors for the house. About 3-4 times in the past two months, the detectors have gone off for about 5 seconds during inclement weather.

I'm guessing that this might be do to a power surge or interruption, but I'm not sure. I see many devices for surge suppression or measuring usage, but I do not see any home power quality measuring devices that will show surges and sags. I would like to know that this is the problem before I pay an electrician to install surge suppression for the entire circuit board.

Can anyone point me to a relatively inexpensive monitoring device?

06-21-2009, 09:54 AM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Power Quality Monitoring at Home We recently purchased new wired smoked detectors for the house. About 3-4 times in the past two months, the detectors have gone off for about 5 seconds during inclement weather. I'm guessing that this might be do to a power surge or interruption, but I'm not sure. I see many devices for surge suppression or measuring usage, but I do not see any home power quality measuring devices that will show surges and sags. I would like to know that this is the problem before I pay an electrician to install surge suppression for the entire circuit board. Can anyone point me to a relatively inexpensive monitoring device? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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