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This Old House
Alan J. Kearney |
Suppressing the Surge Think your PC or home theater is safe from getting zapped? Guess again...   |
Home Toys
June 2005
Karenann Brow |
Protect Your Home Theater System from Power Surges Power surges can travel on phone, Ethernet and coaxial lines as well as on the AC power line. If you have components connected to these lines, the surge suppressor should include jacks to provide the necessary protection. |
Home Toys
August 2005 |
Making a Case for Advanced AC Power Conditioning The sensitivity and sophistication of today's electronic circuits require serious AC power conditioning. Anything less is too costly to consider, and will limit the performance users demand. |
Home Toys
August 2003
Ramon Esparolini |
Protect Your Home's Electrical Power & Technology High speed digital and/or lower quality power cause many problems ranging from unexplained home automation reliability issues to catastrophic appliance failures. This article gives advice on selecting devices to protect against power surges. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Andrew Benton |
A Review of AC Surge Protection and Power Conditioning SurgeX protection meets the most stringent requirements of the Federal CID, was designed to withstand an unlimited number of category C1 surges as defined by IEEE 62.41-1991, filters out transients, and does not require close proximity to the building-ground to operate with total effectiveness. |
This Old House
Jim Collins |
Surge Protection Don't count on power strips to safeguard your home and fragile electronics |
Home Toys
October 2003
Ramon Esparolini |
Protection During Electrical Outages; Power Quality Every Day With the expediential growth in digital technology there is an increase in the demand for high quality, low voltage which cannot be met without first obtaining high quality, high voltage. |
Home Toys
December 2003 |
Game [Not] Over Gamers: Protect Yourself Before It's Too Late! Protect your computer gaming system from power surges and spikes. |
Home Toys
August 2002
Daniel E. Fulmer |
Lightning and Electronics Home Control Systems Specifically The best way to protect the home is to protect the main inputs to the wiring distribution center for each incoming feed, i.e. cable TV, ethernet, each phone line, and the electrical system for the entire home, by tying them to a true ground and/or through a surge protection system. |
PC World
April 23, 2001
Steve Bass |
Power Your PC--No Matter What How to defend against power fluctuations... |
Home Toys
August 2004 |
Protecting Your CCTV Equipment From Lightning and Other Power-Related Problems Though there is no guaranteed way to protect your customers' digital video recorder (DVR) with outdoor-mounted CCTV security cameras from lightning strikes and power surges, there are a few simple and inexpensive ways to reduce the chance of damage. |
Home Toys
December 2002
Greg Fournier |
Upgrade to Power 'Runtime' with An Uninterruptible Power Supply Why would one need to upgrade from the reliable protection of a surge suppressor to an uninterruptible power supply that may cost a little more? What benefits are there to using a UPS when, seemingly, the surge suppressor does the job? |
Home Theater
February 1, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
One SAD Power Manager Tributaries Cable, guys better known for high-end cables and the like, are introducing their first power-protection component, the TX500 Power Manager. |
Home Theater
June 27, 2001 |
Panamax Announces Max 5500 AC Regenerator The Max 5500 ACRegenerator combines the best elements of surge protection with line conditioning, power stabilization and AC regeneration to give true audiophiles the best of all worlds... |
Home Toys
December 2005
Garth Powell |
Protecting and Maximizing the Performance of Your Precious Plasma! AC noise is far greater in both amplitude and bandwidth than ever before. When it couples into critical circuits it will distort low-level information as well as create data corruption and losses. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
Top Ten Protection Checklist Power outages can have a significant impact on small- to medium-sized businesses. Here are ways to protect your mission-critical assets: Start with AC Line Surge Protection... Bulletproof... Think "Runtime"... etc. |
Home Theater
March 26, 2002 |
PS Audio's New Power Director The Power Director performs AC conditioning, surge and spike protection, non-current limiting, and communication and switching interfaces for a custom home audio/video system or rack-mount environment... |
PC World
April 2003
Kirk Steers |
Hardware Tips: Keep the Juice Flowing Smoothly to Your PC Determine your system's power needs; learn which discs work best with your CD-ROM drive. |
PC World
Richard Baguley |
PC World Spotlight on UPSs All the UPSs kept our test PC running for over 5 minutes; one of our Best Buys managed almost half an hour. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2005
John McHale |
Silicon-based shielding may protect military electronics from EMP Engineers at Transtector are producing electromagnetic pulse shielding devices based on silicon for U.S. Department of Defense classified applications -- one for a HUMVEE application and one for a missile command shelter. |
U.S. CPSC
March 8, 2011 |
Sanus Elements Surge Protectors Recalled by Milestone AV Technologies Due to Shock Hazard Improper grounding of the case and inadequate insulation for the circuit breaker poses an electrical shock hazard to consumers. |
U.S. CPSC
July 3, 2003 |
Toshiba America Consumer Products Recall of Rear Projection Televisions If the capacitors short circuit due to a very high electrical surge, such as from a lightening strike, the metal parts on the television could present a shock or electrocution hazard. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Uber Will Let Customers Know When Surge Pricing Has Ended Uber has taken plenty of heat for its surge-price policy during busy hours, but the e-hailing startup tried to assuage this backlash Monday by announcing a feature that will let customers know when surge pricing has ended. |
