Everything smarter than a hot plate or a phone charger is pretty well computerized and a sensitive device.
It's stormy here lots and the area I'm in has pretty well 100% overhead power until it gets to the neighborhoods where it goes underground. We get lots of flickers and brownouts and I've lost many hundreds of $s in appliances and stuff to these.
I have my network stuff and desktops on a good powerful high-cap ups. Is there some type of thing for stuff I don't want ups'ed but still protected? like if power drops for 10ms or however fast a ups reacts, I can have something inline for my washer dryer dishwasher range etc that just cuts power for 5 mins or something and restores if the input is good?
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[–] videocodec ago
Ups. Power conditioners for your whole house are very expensive and you would still need batteries for it for the brown/blackout conditions. You can get a generator to cover outages but they are not meant to run 24/7.
[–] DrHatchetWound [S] ago
couldn't something I'm talking about be built though and using instead of a battery, a non-consumable capacitor to power it to monitor power and if the power is completely dead for x minutes and capacitor power runs out you have to manually reset the thing? This could be done in an enclosure the size of a smart outlet and without the bt or wifi one of those has, it has a capacitor and should not really cost much different?