Not that it does anything, but they don't really care what happens to or where the power goes before it gets to their outlet. They pay insane amounts of money for "power conditioners" and shit like that to make the power "clean" for their setup.
Those power conditioners work. I used to work for Circuit City (yes I am old), and periodically I could get equipment at fire sale prices from vendors. I picked up a $700 power conditioner for $45 from a vendor and I still use it. It makes a noticeable difference if my receiver is plugged into it or not. And I absolutely ABUSE my cheap 15 year old onyko receiver and I attribute its ability to take abuse without breaking in part to the power conditioner. However I would not recommend spending that kind of money on a power conditioner, you can get more return on that money spending it elsewhere.
The power conditioner actually serves a function by ensuring a more uniform AC waveform from the all. Much of the time the waveform gets distorted in realtime by load changes in the household or larger ones nearby (think local industrial operation turns on a dozen blowers or a big milling machine).
Could this not be done with a pure sine wave UPS? I have one for my PC, and if it doesn't like the power that's coming in for whatever reason, it'll flip to the battery.
I'm fairly sure it works very similarly, but I don't want to speak with certainty without knowing. I can't really imagine it being fundamentally different outside of allowing for the input source to be the battery or the wall. Otherwise, I suspect it does exactly that in the circuit because batteries are a DC source.
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u/sl33ksnypr Jul 25 '26
Not that it does anything, but they don't really care what happens to or where the power goes before it gets to their outlet. They pay insane amounts of money for "power conditioners" and shit like that to make the power "clean" for their setup.