surge protector (1 Viewer)

[Achim Eilers]

A few weeks ago my house had a very bad power surge. Pretty much all electronic components got damaged like:
- garage door openers
- central A/C
- telephone
- computer
- multiswitch behind satellite dish
- 2 satellite receiver
- pioneer elite receiver
- mcintosh mc500
- bryston 4b
- acurus a200x3
- 2 sony XBR TV's

naturally after all this I'm in the market for a surge protector.
I looked at the Monster HTPS7000 and the PS Audio Power Director any input from somebody out there or other suggestion?

Thanks

Achim.

 

[Chu Gai]

Achim, it depends on what you have as a comfort level for surge protection. Please consider looking at the tweaks area for the past month or so as this was covered in great detail. In a general sense you'll have supressors that meet the first part of UL1449 and those are invariably based on MOV technology. For protection beyond that, there are the non-MOV units such as Brickwall, Adcom, ZeroSurge, SurgeX that meet the most rigorous standards of the optional part of UL 1449.

 

[Craig Robertson]

based on your list of damaged components, i'd certainly look at a whole house solution to stop it at the breaker box. i took a surge at a cell site that i maintain that tripped the 200 amp main breaker, but the "whole house" type surge protector did its job, not a single thing got fried.

 

[Chu Gai]

any idea what the nature of the surge/spike happened to be?

 

[Achim Eilers]

all this happened after the heaviest t.-storm I've ever experienced in my life.

 

[Chu Gai]

Achim, let us know how you're making out going through the archives in tweaks and if you've got questions that you need to bounce off.

 

[Bill Kane]

while Achim is looking at options -- and whole house is very good -- having surge suppression in addition at the component point-of-use is the best overall path.
Both Monster HTPS7000 and PSAudio Director are top-of-the-line units and certainly do the jobs for protection and as power plug-in centers.
What the Monster has going for it is BALANCED POWER which has a lot to be said for it. Here's an explainer on balanced power from EQUI=TECH