How to measure current limiting?

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Re: How to measure current limiting?
« Reply #40 on: 25 May 2010, 10:00 pm »
To add insult to injury,what happens when you can hear a difference that you can't measure or see on the scope? My vote would be a before and after of a simple single impulse as is used for speaker testing, if you are feeling ambitious you could use a recording of a cymbal strike.
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Re: How to measure current limiting?
« Reply #41 on: 25 May 2010, 11:06 pm »
ctviggen - That's why I told jtwrace that it was a tedious and time consuming work. You are dead wrong in even implying that a square wave is not a true representation of real life music/signal... What does that even have to do with anything? This is to test current limiting. Using a square wave, or testing high frequencies makes it easier to see the effects that the Zero Surge unit will have on a power amplifier. If the square wave, or high frequencies look better without the Zero Surge unit, then case closed, it limits current. It will limit current all the same, weather you test with square waves, high frequencies, or music.

What's most depressing here and sad is that everyone fails to see that the Zero Surge has a series inductor. Any time there is an inductive element, it's slow to react to short impulses. This is extremely common sense, yet jtwrace wants someone to conduct this nonsensical experiment. For what? If you know even the most basic electronics, then you know an inductor is current limiting.

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Re: How to measure current limiting?
« Reply #42 on: 25 May 2010, 11:25 pm »

"What's most depressing here and sad is that everyone fails to see that the Zero Surge has a series inductor. Any time there is an inductive element, it's slow to react to short impulses. This is extremely common sense, yet jtwrace wants someone to conduct this nonsensical experiment. For what? If you know even the most basic electronics, then you know an inductor is current limiting."

I guess those voice coils and inductors in the speaker crossover are going to present a real problem eh? and that's the stuff in the audio band never mind a set of chokes on the AC line that help filter out frequencies  well above audio band.
But hey, I guess anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

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   Dan Banquer


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Re: How to measure current limiting?
« Reply #43 on: 25 May 2010, 11:37 pm »
I give up... You want to plug your power amp into a Zero Surge unit, or any other similar surge suppressor, power filter, go for it. What do I care?