What happened to Exact Power

Yeah, I had a hunch you had some juice to get that meeting, Nsgarch ;0)

"as a result of several emails I sent urging him to rethink his marketing strategy. After all, he's a businessman, not a philanthropist ;-)"

I have a good friend from college who started a t-shirt company out of a public storage space and the back of his car. It's a $60 million a tear skateboard/snowboard clothing line w/ 4 different brands.

He said an old ultra-successful business told him early on "If you find customers asking you over and over again for a product, and you don't offer it, then you need to seriously rethink your business plan"

DM, I agree with that (last) advice, and hope many of you will take a minute to express your enthusiasm -- hopefully before Aug 13th ;-)

OK. I had a fun and productive meeting today w/ Bob Schluter, and was informed that he is ready to begin repairing EP-15A's, on a case by case basis after determining what will be required to fix your unit. He wants to review further details with me to give to everyone, so please don't write them for repair authorization numbers just yet. I will keep you posted; it will only be a week or so.

Yes, there will be an EP-20A in the near future (probably next year.) Besides higher capacity, utilizing the same patented waveform analysis and feed-forward correction amplifier, it will also include a new, patented, turn-on/memory-turn-off protection circuits designed to eliminate the in-rush current problems sometimes suffered by the EP-15A's.

Stay tuned.

Neil
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Nsgarch, you rock!

Were they already working on an EP-20A, or is this something you've had up your sleeve?

DM -- first of all thanks ;-)
Second, the only thing I have up my sleeve is lint! I don't work for Exactpower ;-)
Third, Bob basically decided he wanted to make the unit more robust in terms of protecting it (and the equipment plugged into it) from turn-on and turn-off problems (not associated with the basic waveform correction circuitry which works just fine ;-) To that end, he has designed (and patented) some new modules that not only limit in-rush current, but ALSO "remember" the condition of the EP's circuits when the unit is/was turned off. This little trick adds further protection for the unit (and your gear) when the unit is turned back on! BTW, Bob is a very creative engineer IMO ;-)

So having made these improvements/changes, he felt it would be worthwhile to give the EP greater capacity at the same time, and why not? It's such an efficient design to begin with, and with home systems (especially HT) growing larger and larger, that it seemed a no-brainer.

- Neil
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