UltraPower Products

Our complete line of PowerGrid AC Line Conditioners provides protection, conditioning, filtration, and optimization for all connected home theater equipment from dangerous and polluted AC power that can damage and even destroy your components.

All PowerSource products reflect our fundamental values of top build quality, leading-edge engineering, production and performance. We deliver the best value, reliability, versatility and flexibility imaginable from the most basic protection to our highest-specified products.

Planet Green Series Multimedia Surge Protectors reveal our commitment to environmentally conscious engineering. Most power supplies for multimedia, computer-based systems and peripherals draw current even in standby mode.

UltraPower Essentials Kits makes setting up growing A/V multimedia or smaller systems easy! We mix and match them at the factory in various configurations including Planet Green surge protectors, HDMI cables and Screen cleaner for high-value, high quality and long-lasting performance.

General Terms

MOV: The MOV (Metal Oxide Varistor) is an electrical component that protects circuits against excessive transient voltage surges and spikes.

UltraPower X3™ MOV Technology: The UltraPower X3 MOV is the most advanced type available. Traditional round-type MOVs sit exposed on the circuit board and may damage nearby components if vaporized by a huge transient spike. UltraPower X3 MOVs are contained within high temperature isolation casings that protect your equipment from damage inside and out.

Joule Rating: How much energy the surge protector will absorb before failure. A higher number indicates longer life expectancy as the device has more storage capacity.

Unstable Voltage: Above 125V is considered an over-voltage condition, below 88V represents an under-voltage condition. The consequence of either is virtually the same; damage to your components in the near- as well as the long-term.

Voltage Stabilizer: An electronic regulator that automatically maintains a constant, corrected voltage level.

Switched Outlets: Offers On/Off control of the outlet to a component that doesn’t need to be Always On.

Unswitched Outlets: Always supply power to their outlets as even in standby mode current flows to most components maintaining memory and operational settings.

Always On Outlets: Always On outlets have current flowing at all times, regardless of the On/Off switch. These outlets are for components such as high-current amplifiers, set-top boxes, or servers, or any components that retain memory settings.

Grounding: Proper grounding of electrical systems is required for a number of reasons, principally to ensure safety and prevent damage to the system itself in the event of a ground fault. Proper grounding provides a safe path for dissipating faulty component currents, lightning strikes, static discharges, and EMI and RFI (Electromagnetic Interference and Radio Frequency Interference). Proper ground must always be maintained for safety; do not use ground-lifting or ground-defeating plug extensions.

Ground Protection LED: This LED lights GREEN when the PGX/PS/Planet Green Surge Protectors are On indicating your AC line is properly grounded. If your AC line is not properly grounded the indicator will not light and no power will be delivered to the connected components.

Ground Loop Hum: Ground loops that cause audible hum occur when there’s more than one component in a system connected to ground. The different electrical potentials on each ground cause the hum as there’s a differing resistance to electrical current between all grounding points.

Reverse Polarity: Reverse polarity refers to an electrical outlet where positive and negative polarity has been swapped usually causing more current to leak to ground. The majority of components perform best when in correct polarity.

General Terms Continued

Phone/Data Line Protection: Protects your cable set-top box, satellite, phone and modem, routers and servers from voltage surges traveling via phone and data cables lines. Satellite communication carry smaller surges and spikes but at a much faster rate.

Coax Protection: Protects satellite, set-top boxes and phone terminals. Cable line surges are just as harmful as power line surges.

12-Volt Trigger: Supplied for other system components that are powered by 12 VDC (Volts Direct Current). Plug one end of a 1/8” mono jack cord into your PGX product’s 12V trigger input port. Plug the other end into your source component 12V trigger output port. Projector screens, lifts for TVs and active speakers normally require 12V triggers.

Clamping Voltage: CV is also known as “let-through” voltage. It specifies at what point the MOVs inside a surge protector are able to conduct electricity to the ground line. A lower clamping voltage means better protection (330V-400V).

AC Line Noise: You share your AC outlets with everyone on your AC transformer. Air conditioners and other big appliances pull down line voltage and send on/off spikes through the AC line. Personal device chargers pull their power at the top and bottom of the incoming 60Hz waveform creating ripples of distortion. Add ground noise, polarity issues and other common interference generated outside and from within your system like EMI and RFI that affects the quality of everything you see and hear. UltraPower surge protectors are the uncompromising gate-keepers to your system’s power supplies.

Transverse-Mode Noise: Also called Normal-Mode Noise refers to noise or surges that occur between hot and neutral conductors on the AC line. Most normal- mode problems result from heavy motor-driven loads. Big surges like lightning strikes might enter the hot conductor but not affect the surge protector since the neutral conductor is at ground voltage, also considered a normal-mode condition. The lowered stress on electrical parts leads to longer operational lifetime. The solution to polluting normal-mode AC noise is using an UltraPower PGX surge protector.

Common-Mode AC Noise: Refers to noise or surge voltage that occurs between neutral and ground conductors. Typically common-mode noise is injected into the neutral or ground conductors from overloaded AC lines, problems with wiring, and other heavy appliances on the same line. The spikes on the ground line can be over 6000 volts and can easily destroy your valuable components. The solution to polluting common-mode noise is once again an UltraPower PGX surge protector that’s specially designed to filter out almost all common-mode AC noise.