摘要 |
<p>A power distribution apparatus to control the supply of electrical power to a suite of master and peripheral devices, the apparatus comprising a master electrical outlet and at least one slave electrical outlet, both connectable to a common power supply. The apparatus including a sampling means adapted to sample power drawn from the master electrical outlet, and a controller adapted to calculate an updating average of a plurality of sampled power levels and operable to isolate the slave electrical outlet from the power supply in response to a prescribed change in the calculated average power drawn from the master electrical outlet relative to an automatically calculated switching threshold.</p> |