Been doing some reading on dirty electricity, namely how to make my power supplies and graphics cards last longer with very dirty rural electricity.
I have been using my laptop until I can build a new desktop, but I have noticed that every time my ac kicks on, I hear a fast buzz or click through my hardwired headphones.
As the laptop is on a decent surge protector, this worries me because I am not sure if my hardware is even being protected, and I'll lose another build to this BS.
What does Sup Forums use for surge protection? What is, and how can I eliminate the 'click" I hear through my audio when the air conditioning clicks on? Happens with headphones and stereo.
APC or Eaton UPS' are the only choice. Anything either sucks or will burn your house down.
Noah Turner
this thing
Juan Thompson
Your computer's power supply has these things in it called capacitors
they filter out noise from your wall
Ryan Nguyen
What would fix your problem is a better power supply, but it doesn't hurt to have a surge protector
Nathan Adams
>I have been using my laptop until I can build a new desktop, but I have noticed that every time my ac kicks on, I hear a fast buzz or click through my hardwired headphones. this is interference and has nothing to do with """""dirty""""" energy
Thats the problem.. I think the dirty power is burning out the power supplies faster, I went through 3 EVGA SuperNOVA 850s in my last build, luckily they have an amazing warranty but I am sick of swapping these out.
Is this interference coming through the air or the line? How can I stop it?
I thought these were a scam..
Wyatt Rivera
Surge protectors are a meme.
They do absolutely nothing becasue they are too slow to react to real threats like lightning strikes. - which pretty much never happen anyways so there is no point to begin with.
Chase Wood
Kek
Jordan Adams
The UPS you posted is available in versions up to 850VA, how much power do you need?
Christopher Gray
>UPS's only provide half power and not enough to keep a desktop running during an interruption, or so I heard. Cheap UPSs are shit. If UPSs couldn't keep a desktop running during an interruption then they wouldn't use them on servers.
>which prett much never happen lightning storms destroy hundreds of thousands of computers yearly. I've lost a couple psus to lightning, and they were both through surge protectors.
Anthony Murphy
>having no idea about how surge protectors work
Literally gas yourself.
Kevin Torres
If you're not shit just buy a furman, used them in video racks when I worked as a camera switching tech for years. They're durable as all fuck and extremely reliable
Aaron Wilson
what I use. I haven't had any problems. I also have another surge protector that acts like a circuit breaker and shuts off if a surge happens.
Ryan Flores
>worried
It you're worried, use an isolation transformer.
>surge protection
Surge protectors are mostly snake-oil, unless you buy a UPS with it, or a power conditioner.
>spending on a power conditioner to protect consumer level equipment.
only if you have more money than sense. Just get an isolation transformer.
Dominic Carter
>lightning storm kills your computer
This is why you have renter's and homeowner's insurance.
Charles Thomas
That model looks great, though I will have to step it up to a more powerful version My house used to be a headquarters/office, and still has a telephone pole mounted antenna spike. If you want to watch your precious electronics literally explode, listen to this guy. That's not including shit that happens down the line at the substation. Even the cheap units flipped while my unprotected rear projection TV smoldered.
Did not know about these, thank you
What is this exactly? I can't seem to read the labels.
Jordan Cruz
To those wondering, this thing is likely an active phase correction. It would reduce your homes reactive power draw, however residential power does not charge you for this. It is important in industrial places with large motors running where you would have a surcharge for high reactive power.
Cameron Thomas
Or you can take steps to avoid the potential hassle if it ever does happen
Nolan Thompson
>What is this exactly? I can't seem to read the labels.
monster power. The one I have is monster power HTS 3500, but it's probably about ten years old.
Lincoln Morris
Exactly. It's just a capacitor.
Noah Richardson
do you enjoy talking out of your ass?
Andrew Diaz
This.
Your laptop charger has its own filtering, don't worry about it.
Alexander Garcia
Power factor correction, not phase correction.
Cooper Evans
You need to spend at least $100 on your surge protector.
Zachary Wilson
it's the same thing, the power factor is caused by the phases not being lined up.
Gabriel Morales
He is right though, I used the wrong word
Sebastian Wood
duh he has a triple titan x build with two sandy bridge CPUs
he NEEDs a 1000w power supply
Anthony Thompson
Don't you people have lightning rods and grounded houses?
Anthony Ward
Real lightning protection is not cheap and incredibly uncommon outside of sensitive buildings like datacenters and large office buildings. Grounding and some pissy little lightning rod does not make for effective lightning control.
