BillConnerFASTC
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/amp27557804/digital-circuit-breaker/
Very cool possibilities.
Very cool possibilities.
@MNicolai Is this by any chance another innovative, quality,Trump product, proudly U.S. built, protected by tariffs and available only on your side of Donald's walls? (I hope.)"IoP" Internet of Power. Network-controlled, WiFi-connected power panels. Talk about inviting an attack vector into your home and business.
The article doesn't seem very objective at all, peppered with big round numbers -- "Atom Power’s digital circuit breakers are 3000 times faster and 100 percent safer than mechanical circuit breakers." That's a pretty vague claim. Wonder how they'll be received in the market.
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What on earth does that mean?
Hmmm....
Just like the calculator and computer. Slide rules and abaci were so safe.
Just like the calculator and computer. Slide rules and abaci were so safe.
@DrewE Good point! Have you ever noticed the dummy loads on the roofs of diesel electric locomotives with their cooling fans making more noise than their diesels when a train is rolling down a steep grade with the traction motors and the dummy loads providing dynamic braking working to defeat the inertia of the train fighting what gravity does best? My abode is immediately adjacent to a rail line with my only window looking down on a train line where trains typically noisily power their way up a lonnng uphill grade during the darkness of night with two large diesels on the front aided by two smaller helpers on the rear gathering speed until the lead end is crowning the hill after which the loudest sounds from the two helpers coasting back down the lengthy grade are the sounds of their roof mounted fans dissipating heat from their dummy loads. IGBT power ratings must've come a long way from where they began.The last bit of the article is particularly telling, in my opinion. Power dissipation from solid state switching devices is not exactly something that will be particularly easy to overcome, I suspect. For control applications like dimmers and motor control the power consumption is a necessary cost (but generally acceptable compared to other methods of doing the same sort of thing); but where the device has a life of sitting there waiting for something to go wrong, or possibly for some relatively rare event to come around and turn it on or off, it's a big problem...both from the standpoint of efficiency and from that of heat generation and dissipation. Who would like their floor to suddenly lose power because the fan in the electrical panel got too clogged up with dust?
I can see a lot of potential here. But I would want it running on an internal network and totally isolated from the internet.
Perhaps, but also plenty of hyperbole. It's hard to discern the actual technical details in order to make an informed evaluation.
It is Listed. Granted, they don't say what standard. And I did say possibilities (def:. a thing that may happen or be the case) not certainties.Perhaps, but also plenty of hyperbole. It's hard to discern the actual technical details in order to make an informed evaluation.
It is Listed. Granted, they don't say what standard. And I did say possibilities (def:. a thing that may happen or be the case) not certainties.
...or Chicago.I follow the crowd that write the NEC (Isn't @STEVETERRY on that list?), and I can't see NFPA ever approving this.
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