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World's First Digital Circuit Breaker Could Completely Change Our Powered World
- tomatotomato37 7y agoThe safety and improved switching speed is good, but why the fuck does it have to connect to the internet? We already have a giant risk with both vulnerable infrastructure connected to the internet and horrid IoT security practices; the solution to that problem is not to combine both issues into a single product. Also I like how they are praising the potential energy savings of this and then mention their next big hurdle is reducing thermal losses compared to mechanical units, which pretty much implies it's turning your fusebox into a shitty space heater
- howard941 7y agoThese folks have excellent marketing: Last week they had segments on CNN, this week it's PM. Atom might be the world's first UL listed digital circuit breaker, but it's absolutely not the first digital breaker ( http://www.eaton.eu/Europe/Electrical/ProductsServices/CircuitProtection/DigitalCircuitBreakers/index.htm http://www.eaton.eu/Europe/Electrical/ProductsServices/Circu... popped up as result #2 on DDG for ex) .
- HocusLocus 7y agoI'm dubious of this. To read “Now I have no moving parts. Now I have the ability to connect things like iPhones and iPads for remote power management, which increases safety and improves efficiency. I can set the distribution panel to a schedule so the flow of power is seamless, unlimited, and shifts between sources automatically. You literally wouldn’t notice. The lights wouldn’t even flicker.” Note the "between sources" claim. Replacing mechanical separation with solid state to interrupt a circuit is one thing. Switching between two (presumably AC) sources is another. Either he's talking about LOW voltage DC and being misleading while he also discusses his company's circuit breaker... or he's actually proposing a 'transfer switch' that does NOT rely on mechanical separation.