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Old 08-11-2016, 10:09 AM   #7
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If you take on the project of building a Maretron monitoring system, remote alarms essentially come for free. A system can be as simple or as complex as you want, but the results are excellent monitoring of systems at anchor, at dock, and underway, with all sorts of alarming. And of those alarms can send an email. So I get an email if my dock power drops out for more than 3 minutes. That's enough of a delay to avoid nuisance alarms if someone just flips the wrong breaker and turns it right back on again, but ensures that I know if there is a longer outage. I also know if my bilge pump cycles, high water alarm, inside temp drops, DC out of range, etc etc. I probably have a dozen or more. All you need is an Internet connection. No subscription. They also have an SMS texting device, but that requires a SIM card and monthly service. I figure I'll just use the SIM card I already have
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