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Remote Access to Circuit Breaker

Every once in a while I have a breaker trip when I'm not home.

I have a series of computers running cpu intense programs and sometimes alt coins which can also be hogs :-). At times there is a huge surge in power consumption and the breakers trip.

Right now the system goes from

  1. the computer's PSU to a

  2. wemo which in turn is connected to an

  3. outlet which goes directly to the circuit breaker.

The wemo is connected to a laptop which allows me to turn on the device remotely.

Every once in a while the circuit breaker trips and I have to wait until I get home to flip things back on. Usually this doesn't matter but if I'm away for a few days it does.

I'm looking for a solution.

I'm think about a "something" that would be tripped if there is a surge and I can use a wemo to flip back on. The wemo would be on another circuit.

Computer (PSU) -----> "something" 
                           |
                           |
                          wemo

If there is a surge the "something" trips (not the circuit breaker). I'll have a wemo pinging this "something." If there is no response for x seconds then the wemo shuts it off and turns it back on, effectively resetting the "something."

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