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saintsfan
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Does anybody here have experience with whole house power conditioners? We live in an old neighborhood with old overhead powerlines, and it's been a rough fall for brownouts and other little transient "interruptions". I already have UPS's on delicate stuff (basement server, PC, home theater), but there are so many other little devices in the house that I'm getting real sick of needing to restart/reboot/reprogram. The furnace, water heater, microwave, etc all have clocks & timers & controllers that freak out when the power cuts for a split second. Worst of all is our hardwired smoke detectors; when the power flickers just right, they decide it's a conflagration and will wake everybody up at 3am just because there was a wind gust down the street.
I'd like to find something that can give first line surge protection and voltage regulation, but without a full UPS with batteries and significant runtime. Does such a device exist? How many liquor stores do I need to rob to afford one? Worst case I can isolate the circuit the smokeys are on and kludge in a cheap UPS, but if there's a better solution that will cover the whole place it'd be worth considering.
I'd like to find something that can give first line surge protection and voltage regulation, but without a full UPS with batteries and significant runtime. Does such a device exist? How many liquor stores do I need to rob to afford one? Worst case I can isolate the circuit the smokeys are on and kludge in a cheap UPS, but if there's a better solution that will cover the whole place it'd be worth considering.