How Do You Know When Your Power Is Back On? With A Power On Alarm Of-Coarse 😜
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2021
- In this video I show and tell a few different ways to know when your power has been restored. Then I show how to install one of these options and we end up with a device that screams bloooody murder! Hopefully you can learn something from my experience and ideas to help you decide which way is best for you that much sooner. But you have options, plenty of them! I chose to do this with sound but you can very easily do this with light as well.
Power back on alarm -- amzn.to/3NGyy7x
Here is the playlist for my generator and this complete set up: • Pulsar (G12KBN) Dual F...
Subscribe with bells and that jazz if ya like, but thanks for watchin! 😃 
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In this video I show and tell a few different ways to know when your power has been restored. Then I show how to install one of these options and we end up with a device that screams bloooody murder! Hopefully you can learn something from my experience and ideas to help you decide which way is best for you that much sooner. But you have options, plenty of them! I chose to do this with sound but you can very easily do this with light as well.
Power back on alarm -- amzn.to/3NGyy7x
Here is the playlist for my generator and this complete set up: ruclips.net/p/PLIPWY-_PaDCyJz32-aawvlISlu6VBqGFm
Subscribe with bells and that jazz if ya like, but thanks for watchin! 😃
I have been looking for something similar. What I have is a neon bulb. An actual neon and not an led that I wrapped a wire around one of my mains legs and attached to the red of the neon. The other side of the neon connects to ground. I had to experiment with the number of wraps. I was using a single wire from an Ethernet cable. Pretty slim wire. If I used a thicker wire I am sure it would have worked better but the neon glows when I have mains power. It does not glow when I don’t. I spent $6 bucks on a package of neons. Already had the Ethernet cable I butchered. I like that but would hate to be woke up in the middle of the night by that siren lol but I could hear it an know that power was restored from remote without having to walk out and lay eyes on it so there are some pros. Thanks for the videos.
Good idea making an inductively powered neon set up!
I was doing something very similar with light before I made this video, but ultimately I wanted a contraption to make a noise so I could hear it anywhere in the house. Be care what ya wish for as they say, I can hear this thing in my neighbors house across the street 😁! But an easy cheap option for light would be that current transformer I showed in the video. That thing could easily drive a whole mess of LEDS with some basic scrap parts we all have laying around.
My simple fix to quiet this obnoxious alarm is to block the speaker grill from the inside. Maybe I'll make a companion video to this one showing how I did that.
Anyway, I'm glad you liked the video.
Cheers 🍻.
Wow! This is just what I need. I have been kicking around ideas using a light with an on off switch connected to one of the entrance cables. Thanks.
However, you might want to write some kind of script to follow for your next video. A fascinating 10 minute video stretched out to 21:33 minutes becomes hard to endure.
10 minutes? That's just a commercial then not a video. The day I even think of writing a script will be the day I close this account. But I am slowly getting better about cutting out non essential bits along with adding chapters. I might get good at it sometime before I die. 🤷♂
7:40 to 14:20 is what you actually came here to see - you're welcome.
My panel is in my garage and I have a hard time hearing this alarm in my house. I also had to open it up and adjust the VR to get it to sound. Otherwise it works fine.
This thing is stupid loud, but I can imagine at least, location location location. In your case if you don't mind tinkering, you could send that audio signal wirelessly via some remote Bluetooth amp/speaker. You would just need the electrical speaker output of the alarm into the input of any analog input capable Bluetooth transmitter. Keep the input voltage low around .75 volts for consumer grade hardware and to quick and easily accomplish this just use a 10k pot or an "L" pad to dial down the voltage if necessary. But once the signal is wireless, you can pump it into whatever you like, anywhere the signal can reach.
I don't know your situation, I'm just throwing some ideas at ya. Hope it helps.
Cheers 🍻
I'm in the market for such a project as I'm installing an interlock on my panel to feed generator to the house after huricane ian here in Florida and wanted a safe way to know when the power is back on. I live kinda in the sticks and can't see nearby lights and have been looking at safe options without physically connecting something to the unbreakered side of my panel input, just found this device and seems like a great solution and will buy one but I want to modify it to flash a bright LED light in the main living space and possible a quite bell. I want an audio alert but don't want a burglar alarm blowing my ear drums out at 4am lol. The inductive pickup is a great safe way to tell when mains is back, just want more options than a lout siren. I'm sure a little soldering and tinkering could make a suitable solution. Thanks for showing the product 👍
Safe is subjective.... This may be electrically safe, but it will blow out your ear drums. Safe would also be snipping the speaker wires in this device and using circuitry to drive some LED lights....
Safe is always in the eye, seldom in the hand. Just be electrically careful with any mods and you'll be fine! Show me what you come up with please, I/we/curious minds want to see it before and after.
Cheers 🍻
@@Finite-Tuning I will definitely let you know what contraption I come up with 👍
@@turbopower130 I have one of those alarm things too. When the power comes back on at 3am and the thing starts screaming, it's alarming. I have been searching for months for a light with a calm bell or an alert to a smart phone. As somebody else mentioned when generator is on the wifi is powered so it should be doable. Internet from StarLink is powered as well. I would settle for a light though, so I anxiously await your conclusions.
Piezos use little current, so you could probably get away with running a potentiometer in series with it to act as a crude volume control.@@MixMasterMinix
Those piezos are considerably smaller than say a house alarm piezo.
which app were you using for sound meter?
Audio Tool
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.julian.apps.AudioTool
Does this thing still work?
Yep, still it's makin my ears bleed.
Cheers 🍻
They need to make something that will send an alert to your phone.
That would require WiFi and it needs power to work regardless of device. You probably already have a dozen "smart" devices already running on home electricity. If they're working then you've got power. If you cannot connect to any of them, then either you are out of power or someone stole your house!
Cheers 🍻
@@Finite-Tuning When the generator is running we have WiFi so it would work just fine to tell us if power is in the main line from the utility company. I have an interlock switch so main is off gen. breaker is on.
@@raysheridan7513:
Oh, I thought you were looking for a way to monitor power status when not at home. My bad! This alarm will let the whole neighborhood know when your power has been restored, it's insanely loud..... 🔊📢
@@raysheridan7513 Since I am fueling my generator with gasoline, I want to be on the safe side by never storing it with any gas in it - not even in the tank. [I know of no gas station nearby that sells non-ethanol gas and, even if they did, it still wouldn't change my mind.] So, I have no interest in shutting down my generator as soon as the power returns. So, when I shut the generator down to refuel, it is likely that I would be able to determine at that time that the power is back on, based on the neighbor's lights being on, streetlights being on, etc.) Or, I could flip the interlock to switch back to the grid, but that switch is VERY stiff and hard to manipulate. So, I am thinking just a little LED light would be perfect - the kind that lights up when in close proximity to a power source. Surely someone sells such a product??
@@kipster-ll6po They make a voltage senser that looks like a pen. I use them all the time. Maybe you could modify it with an on off switch.
Leave your sterio on full volumn geezeepeezees. The trick is when you have a manual switch to a generator. What a waste of time.
What are you talking about?
@Finite-Tuning he put a device in so when power comes back - it alarms him. Well when power comes back, lights left on turn back on, stereos left on start the music up, etc. Now he never mentions the use of a generator so I assumed it's not involved. So don't waste money on an alarm when your stereos does it for you. Now, if you have an autoswitch on your generator hookup....you don't CARE when it comes back. If it's manual switchover it's a real issue. Yout MAIN is off so you get no way of warning...unless you connect something BEFORE the maon ciruit breaker. I'm guessing that is frowned upon but I don't inspect your house. Make sense now?
@@thomashahn2837:
It sounds to me like you guys have no idea what this device is or how it's used, even though I explained it all in the video.
@Finite-Tuning I know exactly what you are talking about. But I'll look at the vid again.
Yea. I understood. By the way, you never stated the use of a generator. That's where power back on becomes complex. If you have the main off, despite power on the lines, no current is FLOWING, so no alarm. If it's on, leave your sterio ON!