Viitalahde wrote on Tue, 02 February 2010 11:43 |
... Furmans etc are probably out of the question, so what are the options? |
bblackwood wrote on Tue, 02 February 2010 10:33 |
...a voltage meter I have hanging off the UPS shows a constant 120 VAC all the time, regardless of what's happening. |
bblackwood wrote on Tue, 02 February 2010 10:33 |
All electrical here first Furman AR series voltage regulators, followed by APC Smart UPS's. |
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Also, are your amps on any Voltage Regulators? Or is that asking for trouble |
jdg wrote on Wed, 03 February 2010 10:54 |
to everyone here saying they get "120" solid, have you measured the input voltage? |
Viitalahde wrote on Fri, 05 February 2010 12:32 |
Greg's ferro resonant transformer sounds interesting. I'll have to look into that. |
dcollins wrote on Fri, 05 February 2010 14:41 | ||
Depending on the brand they can generate a very distorted sinewave. |
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The Furman with switched taps seems like a better solution. |
tom eaton wrote on Thu, 04 November 2010 08:34 |
Bringing this thread back from the dead to ask if any of you folks have made changes or have new power issues/solutions. I'm dealing with a machine in another part of my building which causes enough of a voltage drop when it cycles that my Monster Power boxes, which have 10 amps of load on them as a matter or course, go way over on power consumption and trip. |
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Thanks for whatever help people can offer! tom |
MASSIVE Mastering wrote on Mon, 20 December 2010 22:19 |
Q for the Furman people -- Are they reasonably SILENT? I had a few different regulators in here and I couldn't stand the noise they made. Pretty much have to keep it close unfortunately... Lately, my power has been pretty freaky and I think it's time to go back to a regulator. But not if it's going to be buzzing and humming all the time... |
tom eaton wrote on Wed, 22 December 2010 14:02 |
Mark- Do you mean the AR1215?... |
Greg Youngman wrote on Wed, 22 December 2010 13:12 |
A friend of mine who lives in (Somis) Ventura County, CA, had voltage issues a few years ago. He's a sharp electronic tech guy. He measured his voltage for quite some time with a recording AC voltmeter to document it. The 120v average was way beyond the 5% limit and spiking all over the map. |
dcollins wrote on Thu, 23 December 2010 14:56 | ||
High mains voltage is good for business as it makes your electric meter run faster. DC |
Peter Beckmann wrote on Wed, 26 January 2011 11:59 |
Is it all on one monster UPS or smaller local units? |
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Have you had to replace the batteries often? |
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When do we officially switch over to the 'other' place? |
bblackwood wrote on Wed, 26 January 2011 18:11 |
You know, they say about every two years, but I generally wait until the begin to fail, so it varies. That said, I had to replace all of them in 2010 (about $750 worth). |
Peter Beckmann wrote on Wed, 26 January 2011 19:23 |
Are you hoping to keep working through an outage using the UPS or just protect the speakers and amps from tripping? |
bblackwood wrote on Wed, 26 January 2011 19:40 |
Jaakko, I'm running 6kva of APC Smart UPS's here - everything but the amplifiers is on 'battery power'. Works GREAT, zero complaints. If the power is ever flaky here (it is occasionally) I still have solid, clean power. |