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.”