Dammit, I did the Vrms to Vpk conversion wrong..... my bad!
A 120Vrms has a Vpk of ~170V.
Doh! It's been too long.
Surge protector
This morning we had a power surge. First one I ever experienced. It knocked out the sub woofer components of my GoldenEar Triton one speakers. In my ignorance I had them plugged into the wall rather than a surge protector. Soooo it blew the amplifiers in the sub woofers. It’s going to be a costly proposition: $500 for the amplifiers plus God knows how much the dealer is going to charge for coming to my house. (He’s very reluctant to do it, wants me to lug the 80 lbs speakers to the store.
Meanwhile, I’m having to listen to bass-less speakers for the foreseeable future.
So, the moral of the story is plug everything into a surge protector.
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I use the Siemens BoltShield, and the reviews are much better. The complaints seem to be from defective units that are DOA or people misunderstanding how the indicators work. Seems a lot of people received pre-owned/defective units from Amazon. The reviews from Home Depot and Lowe's are also much better. |
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@jea48 , I continue to follow this thread with interest. I did go to Lowe’s site and find their listing for the Siemens FirstSurge 140-kA Indoor and Outdoor Surge Protective Device. After reading the second to last post you made, it got me wondering about this: in the spring of ’20 we had a micro-burst that brought down one of two large pine trees in my front yard. The tree almost could not have came down any more fortuitously than it did--no damage to my house or anyone else’s and only minimal damage to the cap on one of my pickups (which the tip of the pine tree hit). But it did take out the line from the power pole to our house (it did NOT yank the meter out). It also did not damage any equipment or appliances (I don’t think I was manually tripping circuit breakers back then). Was I just extremely lucky?
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