I'll check this out. Thanks!YoLink is the sleeper of the smart device category, they have some really great stuff that has silly range and amazing battery life. Nice app and integrations with many HA platforms. I have driveway sensors, leak detectors, power loss and some other motion/alarm stuff. Really love the platform.
This glitch apparently happened in the middle of the night...
Bummer.
What brand GFCI was it? I've seen a ton that trip by default on a power cycle. You might want to find one that will return to a functional state.
so youve left stuff on?Call me paranoid but if the power is out and doesn't come back I'll shut the main breaker.
I've had way too many cooked things when it comes back.
so youve left stuff on?
I'll regret saying it, but I have never lost a device from an outage.Every damn time I'm a little lazy and I say, "oh let me turn off just these breakers instead of the main" it seems like I forget some expensive gizmo.
Just a few weeks ago power was out for about half the day. I turned off the breakers to the AC and other "major" appliances but left a home office/bedroom powered so I could continue working immediately once service was restored.
Power is restored I go out, turn all the breakers one at a time and when I got back to the bedroom I smelled a STRONG ozone odor. I figured it was the corona on the laser printer heating up but the stench continued for hours.
I go to print a shipping label from my home office and the label printer isn't doing jack. Come to find out it wasn't the laser printer but the power brick for the laser printer grenading itself.
Luckily everything worked after I cobbled a new one out of a Dell laptop adapter I was about to trash.
ok but turning the breakers off is no different than the power just shutting off. so something doesnt make sense hereEvery damn time I'm a little lazy and I say, "oh let me turn off just these breakers instead of the main" it seems like I forget some expensive gizmo.
Just a few weeks ago power was out for about half the day. I turned off the breakers to the AC and other "major" appliances but left a home office/bedroom powered so I could continue working immediately once service was restored.
Power is restored I go out, turn all the breakers one at a time and when I got back to the bedroom I smelled a STRONG ozone odor. I figured it was the corona on the laser printer heating up but the stench continued for hours.
I go to print a shipping label from my home office and the label printer isn't doing jack. Come to find out it wasn't the laser printer but the power brick for the laser printer grenading itself.
Luckily everything worked after I cobbled a new one out of a Dell laptop adapter I was about to trash.
ok but turning the breakers off is no different than the power just shutting off. so something doesnt make sense here
There should be no surge when the power comes back on.I'm pretty sure when the power came back on there was some sort of surge. My neighbor lost something too with the last outage.
My only reason for turning off the main breaker is to prevent a surge or whatever being connected to the grid when all couple hundred homes came back.
There should be no surge when the power comes back on.
even if there was one, surge protectors have clamping voltage ratings (usually around 400VAC) and below that they will not do anything
Dude, what's your problem? Just print out this thread and show it to the next appliance that breaks and tell it to fix itself....DUH....All I know is when the utility returns from an outage in my neighborhood a neighbor or myself loose something.
The utility is very cryptic about what happens most of the time. All of our service is underground back to the substation.
Dude, what's your problem? Just print out this thread and show it to the next appliance that breaks and tell it to fix itself....DUH....