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Power conditioner types

Do any power conditioners actually store the energy from the outlet/power company and then generate it on demand or do they all filter the current as it is coming through?

Or is it more complicated than that?

If any do store it, are they a different class?
sokogear
erik_squires
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PS Audio's line is famous for doing just that.  PerfectPower was somewhere in between, storing enough energy to correct the waveform without necessarily being able to recreate missing waves.

I wrote quite a bit here:

https://inatinear.blogspot.com/2019/04/power-management-for-frugal-audiophiles.html
sokogear OP
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@erik_squires - sounds like you are a fan of my Furman.....good to know. Now if I can only get a silver face plate for it......any ideas?

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jchiappinelli
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Capacitors have values, the unit of capacitance being the Henry. Most of our caps are measured in mH, milli-Henry’s, because it is a hard way to store energy. 

Uh....No. The unit of capacitance is the farad. The unit of inductance is the Henry.

J.Chip
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cakyol
940 posts
 
What you are referring to is called a "power supply smoothing capacitor" and every amplifier already has one (or more) in it :-)  You do not need a power conditioner for that function :-)
jwillox
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@jchiappinelli

Good correction:
Farads, millifarads, microfarads. 
A Farad is quite a large amount of energy storage capacity. For example, my current power amp has 108,000 uF, or 108 Farads. A lot of storage and smoothing for a D.C. power supply. 
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