Power-outage Power Cutouts For Electronics

We live in the Santa Cruz mountains, and the power up here is bad (overhead lines, trees that fall down, etc.). So we tend to get power outages and brownouts, particularly in the winter.

When the power goes out and comes back on, some of our electronic devices turn back on. In the case of a plasma TV, this is bad, because we might be away from the house when it happens, and an image could be burned into the TV.

We tried to find a power conditioner that would turn off if it encountered an outage, requiring a manual reset to turn it back on. No such conditioner seemed to be available.

A UPS could be used for this, but they are too big to fit in the wall behind a plasma TV, and generally not a good fit for this application.

X10 devices used to fail open on power-off, but now they restore their previous state when powered back up.

We wound up having to make our own with a RIB01P DPDT relay from functionaldevices.com:a PAC521P from chiefmfg.com:and a momentary rocker switch typically used for garbage disposals:
We were given superb pre-sales support by the engineers at Functional Devices, including a circuit diagram:But it really shouldn't have been that difficult.

Power conditioners, both in-wall and rack-mount, should have a mode where they don't restore power unless reset.

For rack-mount, the reset could be done with a pushbutton, IR, RS-232, X10, or Z-Wave.

For in-wall, a button would be difficult to reach, so the reset would have to be done with IR, RS-232, X10, or Z-Wave.