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Re: Best Line Conditioners

Caleb Denison — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:37:42 GMT

Hey Jason,

This should be no problem at all. It's safer than unplugging your components then plugging them back in because there's no chance of you sending a spike down the line.

The only reason that I haven't been doing this each night (until recently) is that my Dish receiver takes a long time to boot up, acquire signal, spin up the DVR and then download the programming guide. All I needed to do was switch the DVR over to one of the unswitched outlets on my power center. Problem solved. Now I power it down at night before bed and generally don't boot up again until I get home in the evening. This works great for the system that is connected to my PC as well!

Re: Best Line Conditioners

Jason — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:01:42 GMT

Hey All,

I have a seemingly stupid question. I have my TV, tx-sr805, oppo DVD player, and wii plugged in to my line conditioner and I was wondering if anybody knew if any component could be damaged by me turning the line conditioner off at night and through the day? I heard that the onkyo (powered off) still uses ~100watts so I decided to try to cut down on power consumption (especially with our huge increase in rate) but I couldn't find anything on-line saying that its either safe, or not safe, to turn the power off every night and turn it on when I get home from work.

Thanks!

Best Line Conditioners

Jason — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:34:25 GMT

What do you guys use for your home theater line conditioners?

I currently use: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6800786&type=product&id=1091099665894

with 6000 joules of surge protection. I really don't like the shape (long and narrow) and was hoping to get something which possibly had outlets stacked one on top of another) to reduce the width. Thought this would be an interesting question in any case.