I've been using a power monitor option with my current setup using Fosters AstroMC. It consists of a plug to the wall outlet and a dc connection on the board that monitors for the ac input and sends an alert to ACP after 30 seconds of power loss. This is treated by ACP like a weather event and shuts the observatory down.

I'm considering going to a new vendor's equipment that's very similar but doesn't have a power monitor. I was wondering how others monitor for power outages and what you're using? I would like to find something that would send an alert to ACP but at the very least something that would text me or call my phone so I could manually shut the observatory down.

Thanks,

Joel


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