Smoothing power transients?


We have a whole house generator with ATS, and lose power briefly every few months. I expect there could be some brief transient when the ATS kicks in(?)

I’ve been running a low end Monster HTS-3500, and haven’t experienced any negative effects AFAIK. But that now is malfunctioning (low level high-pitch whine anytime it is plugged in, nothing else plugged into it or not).

Im a bit reticent to just plug everything into a garden variety power strip.

Any thoughts on a decent power distribution product vs true power conditioner to do the job? Don’t really want to spend multiple thousands unless really necessary.

inscrutable

Well, that was clairvoyant… thunderstorms all day, and power just went out and on generator now. Fortunately my system was all off. 

I have decent protection with an AQ PowerQuest 3 

> Zero Surge 2R15W > dedicated line, breaker > whole house panel surge protector.

Downstream of that

PS-606-HospitalGrade

strips are OK.

 

Zero Surge 2R15W > dedicated line, breaker > whole house panel surge protector.

I don’t see the whole house surge protector as indicated, but the Zero Surge’s filtering is an excellent way to lower the noise-floor of your system. And the surge protector works. It’s a good conditioner for low-current source components. Amps can be affected sonically, so should be plugged directly into the wall or separate power strip.

There are many high quality power strips without filtering. Hospital-grade are heavy duty and meet very high standards for voltage clamping.