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Looking for a power off alarm?

my3cents · 2016-09-05 09:52:34

The story is we have a big freezer out in a shed and the shed has a power supply but its possible for the freezer to get unplugged and we might not know about it for days. So is there anything simple and cheap you can plug into a socket that gives an alarm if the power goes off. I realise there are ways a power alarm could…

05-09-2016 10:52AM

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The story is we have a big freezer out in a shed and the shed has a power supply but its possible for the freezer to get unplugged and we might not know about it for days. So is there anything simple and cheap you can plug into a socket that gives an alarm if the power goes off.

I realise there are ways a power alarm could fail and not warn up if the freezer was just unplugged but what tends to happen is that the extension lead its plugged into gets pulled out and a suitably placed battery operated alarm unit could warn of that. Then there is the problem that very occasionally the whole circuit out to the sheds will trip off again a plug in alarm would give some warning.

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