Power conditioners

[Bodywonderful]

Serious question, how many people have had audio/video equipment total failure from a power surge? Not being facetious, but I have not personally known anyone who has had this problem since I've been alive (whom has admitted it at any rate). I was wondering how common this is.

 

[Mark E. Long]

Serious question, how many people have had audio/video equipment total failure from a power surge? Not being facetious, but I have not personally known anyone who has had this problem since I've been alive (whom has admitted it at any rate). I was wondering how common this is.

Late last fall double lighting strike on our property took out Two carver TFM-35x 350 watt amps and damaged a third that I took out of service to be on the safe side . They are in the process of being sent away for rebuilds. So yes it does happen.

 

[Bodywonderful]

Late last fall double lighting strike on our property took out Two carver TFM-35x 350 watt amps and damaged a third that I took out of service to be on the safe side . They are in the process of being sent away for rebuilds. So yes it does happen.

Yikes! Sorry to hear that.
Thank you for the response.

 

[Mark E. Long]

Yikes! Sorry to hear that.
Thank you for the response.

Your welcome Sir the whole system is on its own 2-20 amp lines and power centers which I suspect my need replaced as well . The amps were due for rebuild’s anyhow but I never planned to do them all at once lol .

 

[Golfx]

I submitted this post couple of weeks ago.

“I did a deep dive a few months back on surge protection. You will not find “THE” definitive article or forum post on what to buy or use. So “they” (multiple forums or articles) summarized recommendations as whole house surge protection plus added suppressors (non sacrificing) for expensive devices.

I too have 20amp lines and bought zero surge https://zerosurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2R-Series-01-24.pdf.

You can find cheaper ones that ”sacrifice” themselves but unless they smoke you will not know how much protection is still left after a surge.

Zero surge held the original patents which they licensed to brickwall and surgex and others. Seems like a minimal amount of money for protecting expensive AV devices.”

 

[Speedskater]

Late last fall double lighting strike on our property took out Two carver TFM-35x 350 watt amps and damaged a third that I took out of service to be on the safe side

What types of surge protection did your home have? Were the amps the only things that were damaged?

 

[Mark E. Long]

What types of surge protection did your home have? Were the amps the only things that were damaged?

I had or have two monster 1800 HD power centers with every thing hooked to them . Yes strangely yes it was just the amps it did mess with the AVR but a factory reset straightened it up . It was the weirdest thing the storm came up out of nowhere was watching something and lightning hit very close to and they instantly shut it all down it all rebooted just as the amps kicked on with in 5 or so seconds it hit again very close and then one amp I used for surround channels started to hum very loud the one I used for my front mains lost a channel and the one I had on the center keeps cutting a channel out so there toast everything else seems to have survived so far did loose a mid bass driver out of one jbl tower but I have spares for those as there older and it’s wise to at least keep a driver or two around when you can find them . They were do for a refresh as they are from the 90’s . Now iam just useing the AVR to power everything for now thank the gods it was unharmed it sounds ok but I did loose a lot of power and clearity and tons of head room for program material . 3 art 31 band eq’s were unharmed too . My guess is the amps were old enough to not take the surges that close together. The carver tech said they probably went into DC lock and the bias is out of spec what ever that means .