Lost power alert - is there such a thing?

[WallynDiane]

We have a Kropf park model permanently parked in a great campground.
Two years ago, our neighbors power box malfunctioned and they had no power. They lost everything that was in their residential refrigerator as they were gone for ~10 days.

Fast forward to yesterday, I was talking to a freind who stays in a Florida campground for 3-4 months per year. They had a problem in their campground where apparently kids turned off the power to numerous rv's. Again, they had spoiled food.

Now a lock on the power box may solve the kid problems, but not a power box problem.

Can you purchase a battery powered loss alarm that would put out an audible alarm that would tell fellow campers/campground owner that a power loss has occurred.

I did some google searches but found nothing. Our neighbors had to replace the refrigerator as the spoiled food left a terrible mess (plus the fridge was old).

[GordonThree]

afidel wrote:

MDKMDK wrote:
Fortress Security Store dot com sells wireless GSM based home alarm systems that can easily be adapted to use in an RV. One of the features of the one I have is that the base station has battery backup, and issues AC power interruption alerts, when AC power is turned off or the unit is unplugged. It's set up to send an SMS message to my cell phone.

GSM based? I hope they offer an LTE upgrade module and all new ones are LTE, GSM is dead on AT&T and T-Mobile has only committed to GSM through 12/2020. WCMDA/UMTS is also on the way out with both AT&T and T-Mobile already shutting it down on certain frequencies.

LTE and GSM are two different parts of the system.

Most of the world's LTE service is delivered using GSM

[afidel]

MDKMDK wrote:
Fortress Security Store dot com sells wireless GSM based home alarm systems that can easily be adapted to use in an RV. One of the features of the one I have is that the base station has battery backup, and issues AC power interruption alerts, when AC power is turned off or the unit is unplugged. It's set up to send an SMS message to my cell phone.

GSM based? I hope they offer an LTE upgrade module and all new ones are LTE, GSM is dead on AT&T and T-Mobile has only committed to GSM through 12/2020. WCMDA/UMTS is also on the way out with both AT&T and T-Mobile already shutting it down on certain frequencies.

[ependydad]

GordonThree wrote:
I get an email from my RV reporting voltages (shore and battery) and temperatures every six hours. If the RV had shore power and then lost it, I get an email right away.

It's a custom built system, I'm happy to share the details if you want.

I'm interested, if you don't mind sharing details.

[MDKMDK]

Fortress Security Store dot com sells wireless GSM based home alarm systems that can easily be adapted to use in an RV. One of the features of the one I have is that the base station has battery backup, and issues AC power interruption alerts, when AC power is turned off or the unit is unplugged. It's set up to send an SMS message to my cell phone.

[GordonThree]

I get an email from my RV reporting voltages (shore and battery) and temperatures every six hours. If the RV had shore power and then lost it, I get an email right away.

It's a custom built system, I'm happy to share the details if you want.

[RoyB]

There are 'WIRELESS LOSS OF SHORE POWER ALARMS' available for users to alert them in the case of loss of Shore Power...

These may contact you via cell phone etc...

Type in the marked line above into google search and follow the many sites identified...

Roy Ken