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Line conditioner - how much power do I need?

I live on a military installation in a house built in the 50's. The electicity is very unstable here, with alot of brown-outs. I can't do anything about the lines, since Uncle Sam owns everything.

If I buy a line conditioner, how much power handling does it need to have? I'll plug in a CDP, active preamp and 100w x 2 power amp, and maybe a sub (250w amp onboard.)

Most of the voltage regulators/power conditioners I've seen only have continuous output of 600w or 900w.

How much power handling would a unit need for my purposes?

Thanks!
aggielaw
alex_yakovlev
102 posts
 
Herman, are you sure they were talking about Class A amplification?
Aggielaw, voltage regulator is normally not a good idea, but in your case you probably should use it. Unless you are using your amp at very high volume even 600V should be fine.
herman
2,215 posts
 
Alex,

The theoretical limit of class A is 50%, of AB push pull around 75%, but that is just for the output stage and ignores power consumed by the rest of the amp, so I used 50% as a rough guideline. Some amps will do better. I agree that a device, regulator or regenerator, that can provide 600W should be fine.
herman
2,215 posts
 
Check this out, looks like I was wrong.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1115399501
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