I hate doing this off-topic of a post, but many of you can most likely answer this in 5 minutes or less, so here goes:
I'm looking for some type of relay that is controlled by the incoming AC voltage. If the AC voltage goes over/under some reasonable thresholds (say in the 95V and 140V area) the relay opens, disconnecting all attached equipment.
I realize that many companies make such devices, e.g. Panamax being one of them. But I don't want my equipment reconnected without manual intervention.
Issue is this: recently we've had some brownouts that dropped service voltage exceedingly low, only to spike up to normal, then drop back down again, etc. I'm not looking for lighting insurance, equipment protection insurance policy thingy or any of that junk, just some simple means to pull my A/V equipment off main power until I'm comfortable putting it back on.
Reason I want it automatic is I'm not always home to pull it off, and sometimes it takes me a few seconds to get my a** out of a chair (when I am home) and get to a kill switch - and this is enough time for the local edison to really do some fun things with voltage - and lately the seem to take the chance to do so.
I'm really only worried about putting this on my 5 channel amp, as it seems to not have buffering to prevent turn-on thumps and turn-off discharge through the speakers. I'm figuring the less the amp gets turned on/off, the better, so in short I'm just looking for a pretty simple/cheap solution. (Solution must be able to carry at least 15A as my amp is connected to a dedicated 20A circuit.) Would be nice to install 3 such devices to cover all gear, but the rest is generally more able to fend for itself.
If you are a dealer and resell said devices, please PM me and we'll try to set something up, I'd be more than happy to buy from you.
If its something I can build from ratshack/home depot parts, please point me in the right direction, as I'm not an electrical engineer and don't try to play one on the Internet.
Thanks, and sorry for such an off topic posting...
I'm looking for some type of relay that is controlled by the incoming AC voltage. If the AC voltage goes over/under some reasonable thresholds (say in the 95V and 140V area) the relay opens, disconnecting all attached equipment.
I realize that many companies make such devices, e.g. Panamax being one of them. But I don't want my equipment reconnected without manual intervention.
Issue is this: recently we've had some brownouts that dropped service voltage exceedingly low, only to spike up to normal, then drop back down again, etc. I'm not looking for lighting insurance, equipment protection insurance policy thingy or any of that junk, just some simple means to pull my A/V equipment off main power until I'm comfortable putting it back on.
Reason I want it automatic is I'm not always home to pull it off, and sometimes it takes me a few seconds to get my a** out of a chair (when I am home) and get to a kill switch - and this is enough time for the local edison to really do some fun things with voltage - and lately the seem to take the chance to do so.
I'm really only worried about putting this on my 5 channel amp, as it seems to not have buffering to prevent turn-on thumps and turn-off discharge through the speakers. I'm figuring the less the amp gets turned on/off, the better, so in short I'm just looking for a pretty simple/cheap solution. (Solution must be able to carry at least 15A as my amp is connected to a dedicated 20A circuit.) Would be nice to install 3 such devices to cover all gear, but the rest is generally more able to fend for itself.
If you are a dealer and resell said devices, please PM me and we'll try to set something up, I'd be more than happy to buy from you.
If its something I can build from ratshack/home depot parts, please point me in the right direction, as I'm not an electrical engineer and don't try to play one on the Internet.
Thanks, and sorry for such an off topic posting...