@erik_squires . Yeah. I did purchase 2 different surgeX products for my reciever and sub/powered towers and center. Unfortunately i dont have the power available in my home to install my parasound amp so i dont have to worry about that until i win the lottery and can afford to hire an electrician to install a bigger panel
School me on surge suppression/power conditioning
Long time lurker off and on, new member.
I moved to a rural area in north idaho that sees some surges(flickering lights) now and then plus some quick outages that last a few seconds to minutes to hours to days. Our area has all underground power and we have the big green transformer 350 feet away from our house down the driveway. Meter is outside the house on a pole that feeds 3 separate buildings. Our pump house, the stand alone garage, house.
Before i install my old school deftech powered towers and center along with my parasound hca1205 and Yamaha 3080 reciever id like to do some things to prevent damage to this equipment. I dont have a lot of money, and it IS a triple wide MH. So no room left in the inside breaker panel with it full of tandems and quads already. Thinking number #1 is a panel mounted surge suppression at the outside meter/mains shut-off to the 3 buildings. Im comfortable inside a breaker panel unless its pulling the meter. Each building also has its own breaker panel with main lug panel but too are also full since they chose the smallest panels.
Ive been reading, and definitely overwhelmed and confused. Ive got maybe a $500 budget for now. Just had to replace my heatpump ($6k)and have backup heat(woodstove $10k) installed so im kinda tapped for a few months.
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Self sacrificing upon strike and located away/outside of panel in case of fire. https://ep2000.com/products/home-protection-products/premium-surge-protection-filter/?v=e75edac1b83f Hope you find what you are looking for. Cheers |
The Siemens or Eaton (cheaper) whole house, but it takes up two breaker slots as I recall. Then point of use, like the SurgeX which you have. Electricity is agnostic. If you are concerned about surge protection only. I'm not a fan of "power conditioners" anyway- they all affect the sound-the question is always whether it seems like an improvement. You don't need to throw crazy money at this, given what you have. But I don't know whether you can DIY under code in your location. That is something you should check. I always use an electrician, but that's me. Good luck, PS: there is a famous old "millionaires" trailer park that sits right on the lake in downtown Austin, old hippies, used to be cheap, and some folks have cool Airstreams and other retro MH/trailers/whatever. I could see that if you can handle a confined living space. |
whart, thankfully i have a triplewide thats almost 1900 sq.ft. but its still a mh, so built like one. Id love a real house but in north idaho you have to pretty much make 1/4 million or more unless you want to live in town in a massive development, which i dont which is why I moved here, but too late and could only afford a mh on 5 acres. Code doesn't keep homeowners from doing their own work here as long as its still to code. My meter and main breakers to the outbuildings are on a post in the middle of our circle driveway, so i should have room in there since theres only 3 220 breakers for the house, shop, pump house. Just need to find a surge suppressor that can be exposed to the elements sonce its outdoors |
The whole house units I mentioned both attach to the outside of the service panel. The Eaton used to be considerably cheaper than the Siemens, which is now like 400 plus bucks (I replaced my Eaton with the Siemens when we installed a whole house back up generator). I don't think it is that big a deal to wire if you know what you are doing and are comfortable doing it. You should still use your Surge X on anything critical, like hi-fi. I avoided the point of use surge protectors by running a big-assed Iso Transformer that is dedicated to the system- and it has a sacrificial surge board in it. Good luck, some of this stuff is just basic electrical, not "audiophile" and I'm a hard core old school audiophile from way back--so, not a naysayer on fancy equipment. |
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