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Smoothing power transients?

We have a whole house generator with ATS, and lose power briefly every few months. I expect there could be some brief transient when the ATS kicks in(?)

I’ve been running a low end Monster HTS-3500, and haven’t experienced any negative effects AFAIK. But that now is malfunctioning (low level high-pitch whine anytime it is plugged in, nothing else plugged into it or not).

Im a bit reticent to just plug everything into a garden variety power strip.

Any thoughts on a decent power distribution product vs true power conditioner to do the job? Don’t really want to spend multiple thousands unless really necessary.

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erik_squires
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and here

 

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fuzztone
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I have decent protection with an AQ PowerQuest 3 

> Zero Surge 2R15W > dedicated line, breaker > whole house panel surge protector.

Downstream of that

PS-606-HospitalGrade

strips are OK.

 

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lowrider57
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Zero Surge 2R15W > dedicated line, breaker > whole house panel surge protector.

I don’t see the whole house surge protector as indicated, but the Zero Surge’s filtering is an excellent way to lower the noise-floor of your system. And the surge protector works. It’s a good conditioner for low-current source components. Amps can be affected sonically, so should be plugged directly into the wall or separate power strip.

There are many high quality power strips without filtering. Hospital-grade are heavy duty and meet very high standards for voltage clamping.

 

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