Voltage Logger...experienced recommendation?
Friends behind us at seasonal CG run into power problems annually whenever temps soar in the heat of the day, the park is near capacity, and everyone is running their a/c units. Both he and I are former electrician. From my experience, what I can deduce is that they are the last unit in line at the end of that particular electrical loop. I’ve wired in a Progressive EMS on his rig to prevent damage and we’ve measured voltage at the pedestal as low as 98v when the EMS kicks things off. He notifies the park management, their Super-Super shows up hours later at dusk or beyond with his $2 analog Harbor Freight meter and declares everything to be ok (when the power demands are much lower, of course), and nothing is ever done or changes. We’ve avoided dealing with the problem by running an extension over to the site next to his which is very small, rarely used, and on a different loop. The park didn’t rent the site at all last year to allow this to happen and appease the problem. However, they are adamant about making the site available this year without offering any correction to the root problem. Now that you have the long-winded back story, here is my question. Does anyone have any real world experience and associated recommendation for a voltage logger? My thoughts are to hard-wire one in right in front of the EMS. I’d be looking for real-time infomation as well as USB or SD storage to download and document our findings for park management. We’re not above spending $300+/- for a decent unit. I’ve worked with Fluke accessory data loggers before in 3 phase mill projects, etc but I don’t own this equipment which was very pricey even back then. Any recommendations out there? And please, at the risk of sounding a bit prickly, I can Google with the best of them and can see plenty of what is available out there. A “How about this one?” recommendation without any experience really does me no good. I’m looking for the “been there, done that” guy or gal to hopefully engage in some additional discussion. Thanks for hearing me out on this.
