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From: k on 19 Nov 2009 03:55

"Me.Here" <me.here(a)home.on.the.net> wrote in message
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| Did you have a look at your Administrative Tools Event Viewer?
| Depending on your laptop and software, you may find times that the
| laptop when on and off battery power in one of the logs.


sorry, I was intending to run an older OS than XP and was curious if anyone
had encountered anything that would suite a generic windows OS

it just occured to me that there might be something out there already which
someone may know of - which would save me building an event trigger and
interfacing it to a more generic logger.

(I was thinking of an ancient P166 TP wiith Win9x I had sitting in the
corner gathering dust)

k


From: k on 19 Nov 2009 03:57

"Johnw" <jmatt(a)webace.com.au> wrote in message
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| k submitted this idea :
|
| > thanks, there wasn't anything there I could see - was there something
| > specific you meant that I may have missed?
| >
| > I wasn't looking for a CRO type program, more a data logger .. say
something
| > that recorded that the laptop went onto battery power at 10am for 120
| > seconds
|
| Put a different keyword into search.
|

ah,

I have searched freeware, electronics, electical sites and manufacturers
sites like Fluke as well as googled the electronic newsgroups and hobbiest
sites before asking here.

I was more after a suggestion from anyone who may know of, written, or
encountered a program rather than a suggestion on how to search

thanks anyway

karl


From: Daniel Menzel on 19 Nov 2009 12:57
k schrieb:
> does anyone know of any programs that could log mains power failures or
> interrupts based on a laptop? I was thinking a laptop would be good for
> this as it has it's own power supply in the event of a failure and should be
> able to monitor whether mains power is available pretty easily without any
> special interface beyond the laptop power supply it's self.. of course it
> would only be of use for X hours, but that's adequate for my needs
>
> I was looking at something like the ACR Powerwatch, but it's excessive for
> my needs and at $640, i'd rather press an old laptop into service.
>
>
>
>
> thanks
>
>
Perhaps this will fit your needs (runs on Windows 95 - XP at all):

Without command parameters it logs the power failure in the
file:"powerlog.txt" where the EXE is started.

But you can change this by:
Powerstatus.exe c:\temp\meinlog.txt

The interrogation intervall is 5 seconds, it has a minimizable status
window. And it reads directly from the Windows API.

http://www.gerdat.de/download/Powerstatus.exe

perhapts you need additional this file:
http://www.gerdat.de/download/VB40032.DLL

Daniel

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From: k on 19 Nov 2009 19:56

"Daniel Menzel" <efmenzel(a)web.de> wrote in message
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>
| Perhaps this will fit your needs (runs on Windows 95 - XP at all):
|
| Without command parameters it logs the power failure in the
| file:"powerlog.txt" where the EXE is started.
|
| But you can change this by:
| Powerstatus.exe c:\temp\meinlog.txt
|
| The interrogation intervall is 5 seconds, it has a minimizable status
| window. And it reads directly from the Windows API.
|
| http://www.gerdat.de/download/Powerstatus.exe
|
| perhapts you need additional this file:
| http://www.gerdat.de/download/VB40032.DLL
|
| Daniel


thanks very much, i'll give it a go :)


From: k on 19 Nov 2009 23:40

"k" <fellafel(a)PING.com> wrote in message
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|
| "Daniel Menzel" <efmenzel(a)web.de> wrote in message
| news:he4120$i1m$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
|
|
|
| >
| | Perhaps this will fit your needs (runs on Windows 95 - XP at all):
| |
| | Without command parameters it logs the power failure in the
| | file:"powerlog.txt" where the EXE is started.
| |
| | But you can change this by:
| | Powerstatus.exe c:\temp\meinlog.txt
| |
| | The interrogation intervall is 5 seconds, it has a minimizable status
| | window. And it reads directly from the Windows API.
| |
| | http://www.gerdat.de/download/Powerstatus.exe
| |
| | perhapts you need additional this file:
| | http://www.gerdat.de/download/VB40032.DLL
| |
| | Daniel




perfect Daniel, thanks very much :)


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