Yahoo Groups archive

MOTM

Index last updated: 2026-04-03 22:10 UTC

Message

Re: [motm] OT: clean power in basement studio

2004-08-29 by Richard Brewster

Lawrence David wrote:

>And as for MOVs - those are the cheap surge protection devices in yer 
>typical plug strip?  What exactly is the problem with these?  My whole 
>studio is infested with them! :(
>  
>
Can we hear more about why not to use computer type surge protection on 
synth circuits?  What's wrong with MOVs (Metal Oxide Varistor)?

And Ivan wrote:

One last thing.  Get rid of all MOV's in your system.  These can cause many different problems.  The only effective surge protection made is by Surgex or Zerosurge.  I particularly like the Surgex products and use them exclusively in my stage and studio setups:

http://www.surgex.com/

Ivan

Ok, I went to the SurgeX site and saw the dealer list.  Where do you buy yours, Ivan?

-Richard Brewster

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.