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BadMouth:
Anyone here tear apart and mess with a smart power strip?

I'm looking at devices to automatically turn on the dust collector in my workshop.
They are around $50.

That's not bad, but I've got some extra smart power strips laying around and I wonder if those could accomplish the same thing without much hassle.
The trick here is that the dust collector needs to be on a different circuit than the device triggering it.

So, anyone ever tear one down and fiddle with it?

Mike A:
Don't plug your dust collector into a power strip. Double don't plug your dust collector into a power strip that you tinkered with.

Mike A:
Sorry. That wasn't very helpful. Your dust collector will either bog down or just trip the fuse on the smart strip. If it starts bogging down everything starts heating up.

pbj:
Do you just need an outlet timer, or is something else going to trigger the dust collector?



It's pretty easy to modify a cheap power strip with a microrelay.....

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: pbj on August 15, 2017, 04:58:26 pm ---Do you just need an outlet timer, or is something else going to trigger the dust collector?



It's pretty easy to modify a cheap power strip with a microrelay.....

--- End quote ---

I want the dust collector to turn on whenever a tool that is connected to it is turned on (table saw, band saw, jointer, etc)
Available devices for this pupose run for 7 seconds after the tool is turned off, but my smart strips stay on for about that long too.



Mike A,

The dust collector is only on a 15 amp circuit and doesn't trip that.  I'll see if the smart strip has any specs listed on the box.
It's probably a fairly cheap one.  I got two free from the electric company as a renter, then after buying the place and switching the service to my name they sent two more.

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