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post #1 of 10
7/5/05 at 10:48am
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What do you use for your audio equipment? I imagine most people here would need an extension cord or something to plug all of their stuff into. I heard APC is good. What do you use?
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post #2 of 10
7/5/05 at 11:03am
Our power company, a private co-op, offers a really great deal on whole house surge protectors, basically for about 1/3 price - it is an add-on that sits between the meter and the box, complete with a tri-state led diagnostic light - since the box sits on a pole in our yard, and we can see it from the kitchen window, just a glance outside tells us if it is working...cost us about $200, and they even split up the payments over three bills.

Then within my house, I use sola constavolt isolation transformer to provide nearly flawless 125VAC to my electronics stack (er, pile)...

Have replaced all the outlets on that string with hospital grade..

Run all my power leads through RF damping ferrite cores, cause I am also a Ham Radio Operator...
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post #3 of 10
7/5/05 at 11:11am
wow that setup kicks mine. i just have a Monster Power PC1000 thingy. Replaced the ONEAc brick I was using before.

Lan is the man to talk to about power setups, he should be in here shortly.
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post #4 of 10
7/5/05 at 12:08pm
I'd stay away from APC for audio purposes. I've not had good luck with battery-type devices at all.
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post #5 of 10
7/5/05 at 12:32pm
I use a couple of those Belkin 10 outlet surge protectors. I purchased them from buy.com for about $55/each.
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post #6 of 10
7/5/05 at 4:31pm
I have two surge protectors.

They're beige.
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post #7 of 10
7/5/05 at 6:12pm
A Belkin UPS, and an APC surge protector to provide additional outlets.
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post #8 of 10
7/6/05 at 7:18am
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Originally Posted by jpr703
I'd stay away from APC for audio purposes. I've not had good luck with battery-type devices at all.
would you care to elaborate? i was actually considering getting one of those..
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post #9 of 10
7/6/05 at 8:41am
I run Belkin "Pure A/V Platinum" surge protector boards. Great products, had one give it's life during a storm to save my precious MD amp and Belkin replaced it for free.
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post #10 of 10
7/10/05 at 12:33am
The sine wave battery backups that would work best for any A/V equipment generally start at the 300 dollar range, and go up from there. Stepped/simulated sinwaves and pulsed "sinewave aproximations" are only suitable for running computer equipment, and some consumer electronics that have switching power supplies, like televisions and dvd players. Linear power supplies as I understand them draw power from the whole 60 hertz sine wave on the line and filter out anything that isn't normal, and the output of most cheaper battery backups is certainly nothing like the output from the wall. The unfortunate thing is that the sine wave output backups have loud alarms that generally can't be turned off, even if you have a computer networked to control them.
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