What A Genuine "Surge Supressor" Does For A Living

mlts22 wrote:
I wonder if an online (not standby) UPS would also help.

That is what I call a power line conditioner. Yes, that will take out all spikes, All nasty wave forms, All noise on the line Everything you can imagine and a whole lot of things you can't that are not proper on a power line will be eliminated.

I do that on occasion when there are voltage issues (Turn off the 30 amp breaker that feeds my prosine and leave the OEM converter (an 80 amp model) powering things via the prosine).

The converter can take an overvoltage conditon, or an under voltage (Within limits) and not mind at all (it is rated 110 to 250 volts) and all the delicate stuff is powered via the Prosine. Only resistive loads are left (And the air conditioenrs).


But a transformer will pass the spikes, it may even pass the bad waveforms (noise and such) it does NOTING to filter less it's is a resonate transformer, and in that case efficiency sucks.