$150 obo shipping included.
American-made, 8-outlet home theater power conditioner. This was made in the late 90s/early 00s by a company ("Current Design") that has since gone out of business.
I haven’t found a lot of info about this. It is well made, with respectably-sized coils and MOVs, and a pretty impressive circuit board. (I believe the build quality is a notch up from most of the Monster Power units.) Nice chassis, too.
A company called Cinema Source gave this description in one of their 2002 publications:
“CURRENT DESIGNS offers a single power protection product but it’s a great one. The PC-8 PLUS is specifically designed for full home theater protection. First, it offers high quality AC surge (Transient) suppression and RFI/EMI with multiple stages. It also has voltage sensing circuits that shuts down the entire system if it senses over voltage (130V) or undervoltage (85V) conditions. The PC- 8 PLUS also offers full RFI/EMI isolation of it’s eight of it's rear mounted outlets. Lastly, the PC-8 PLUS is a fully programmable sequencer. It offers a user-adjustable turnon delay (0 to 90 seconds) for it’s eight outlets with the timing on the power up sequence easily monitored via front-panel, bi-color LEDs. If one has an elaborate home theater installation, one can custom program the PC-8 Plus not only to power up all components for minimum current draw but also for sequencing of accessories like screen lowering and drape actuation. The PC-8 Plus retails for $699.95. “Current Designs.”
I recently acquired this unit from a guy who had gotten it at an estate sale, but I don’t have enough rack space to fit it into my HT system. (Plus, my HT system is down to a “2.0” configuration with not much hardware.) Considering how little dust I found inside the chassis, I’d guess that it hasn’t been used much.
I haven’t used the turn-on delay features, only experimented with them by setting the switches on the back panel, and they seem to work fine. I have just plugged equipment into it without taking advantage of those special features, and it works fine that way, too.
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http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=gallery;area=browse;album=5386
