Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
I had moderate success with this suggestion. Their technical support said the only product they had that does this is the 4 outlet RPC5 or RPC6 (ethernet version vs serial version). Unfortunately, it costs $644 each (lowest price I've found so far) and accomplishes it's individual monitoring by replicating power in and power out plus an ethernet port 4 times. Still, if it's the only one out there I guess they win (although at $150 per outlet, ouch, that goes over my $4000 budget for this).
Jeeze... If you can live w/o true watts, I'd bet someone has a Hall effect sensor package that could tell you just amps. Such would be non-contact and would thus skirt the US issue, I'd bet. Trouble is, switcher loads are not nice & linear & low PF.... Still; I think I'll ask in sci.electronics design... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433