Richard J Kinch wrote in
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A lot of electronics failures are blamed on bad power, when they're
just poorly made to start with. Convenient excuse for the
manufacturer facing a warranty claim. This has been going on since
the early 80s when the phony power filtering racket got its start as
an add-on to PC sales when margins started to shrink after the initial
IBM PC blitz. Lots of propaganda.


I'll have to disagree here. I have a considerable amount of experience
with CNC equipment. There is not a machine that I know of that could not
benefit from supply power filtering, especially if you have more than one
piece of equipment in the shop.
The facility I am currently employed with has over 1000 CNC machines,
among other types of equipment, some of them huge power users. You would
probably be amazed at the transients and other power problems present.
The machines we have filters/conditioners/suppressors on have
dramatically reduced electrical problems compared to non-conditioned
machines. This includes drive failures, power supply failures, and
sensor failures. In the process of adding conditioners to the rest, on a
worst-machine basis.

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Anthony

You can't 'idiot proof' anything....every time you try, they just make
better idiots.

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