Thanks for the response Roger, and keep up the fine work! As far as I am concerned you guys (and gals) are the gold standard for how to run a small business. - Mark Roger Wheelock wrote: > <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Hello Mark, > > I may have been the one you spoke to about this. Yes, we did make a > "Power Off Alarm". The power cord for our system plugged into this > small box, which plugged directly into the wall outlet. If either the > system plug or the box was detached, an alarm would sound. And yes, > there was no interest in this unit at the time. Of course this was > before the turn of the century. grin. > > I continued the quest and have periodically looked for an off-the > shelf unit to do the same thing. I did find one that was meant to go > with in-home medical equipment, designed to alert someone in the house > if the sick person were to come unplugged from some critical device. > I bought a sample and plugged it in. It immediately shorted out > giving off that smell of fried electronics. That stopped my > investigation. However, I am going to do another internet search and > see if anything new is out there. If anyone else on the list has seen > anything, please let me know at roger at dampp-chaser.com. > > Redesigning our product has significant front-end costs associated > with getting electrical safety approvals from Underwriters Laboratory, > the Canadian Standards Association, and other international electrical > safety organizations such as Nemko. For a small business these > procedures can be time consuming and costly. Thus we tend to collect > a number of good ideas from technicians over a period of time and roll > them all into a single upgrade of our product line. Our last major > upgrade was in 2006 so we are starting to think about something new. > > All the best, > > Roger > > Roger Wheelock, VP > Dampp-Chaser Corp. > ISO 9001:2008 Certified > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Dierauf" > <pianotech at nhpianos.com> > To: <pianotech at ptg.org> > Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 6:48 PM > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Dampp-chaser improvement > > >> I asked somebody at Dampp-Chaser once about the possibility of adding >> an audible alarm to indicate a system unplugged status and was told >> that they had actually made such an option at one time but it was >> discontinued due to a total lack of interest. Maybe the idea was >> ahead of its time! The intermittent, persistently annoying buzz or >> beep would be really useful in some situations. >> >> - Mark >> >> Thomas Cole wrote: >>> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Ryan -- >>> >>> Go to Ron Nossaman's post of 5/1/10 9:02 PM for an idea that would >>> be very effective in many situations. I say many because there would >>> be situations, such as if the power is out or there is a legitimate >>> need to unplug, and a constant buzzing sound (battery powered) would >>> be an annoyance. It would be nice to switch it to an occasional >>> smoke alarm style beep for when disconnection is unavoidable. >>> >>> Tom Cole >>> >>> Ryan Sowers wrote: >>>> Hi list! >>>> >>>> I thought I would post this idea here, since I know that >>>> Dampp-chaser occasionally pipes in on these discussions. >>>> One of the biggest problems of DC systems is that they occasionally >>>> get left unplugged. >>> >>> </div> >> >> > > > </div>
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