Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Funny, I just installed a UPS, a.k.a. uninterruptible power supply,
a.k.a. battery backup, for one of my servers, and it apparently has
exactly what you're looking for. This particular model, made by APC, has
an optional "master" electrical outlet that controls three "slave"
outlet, at least as far as I can make out the documentation. You plug
your components into the slave outlets, the UPS supplies power to the
slave outlets only when it detects that whatever you plugged into the
master outlets is actually drawing power.
Google "APC UPS master control".
I don't know if they still make them, but there used to be power
strips like that. The first ones I ran into were for stereo systems
and later they sold them for computers. Even Radio Shack sold them
at on time. They had an adjustment in the back to set the turn on
current level.
Mikkel
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