On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:03:12PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:
> Wouldn't even need that (and that would bring in other unrelated
> issues) simply measure the voltage at the shore plug, and main
> breaker. Seeing more than a few hundredths of a volt difference would
> be a good indicator of a problem.
You won't see any voltage drop, though, until the problem is full-blown
- i.e., melting cable, etc. Even if the wire diameter is cut down by
3/4, you still won't see any drop - but the "skin effect" at 100MHz
would show a huge difference.
> Pass the data along the powercable,
> and read it onboard. That does sound useful tbh. Especially if the
> sensor and sending unit could be incorporated in the shore power cable
> end.
I was actually thinking of a little box, not any bigger than an AC
splitter, with a big red LED on it. That way, even when the cable dies
(which is presumably the only time the gadget would be useful), you'd
be able to shift the unit to the new one.
Ben
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