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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Cameron" data-source="post: 16180" data-attributes="member: 42">Re: New and Shocking!Definitely worth investigating. I recently ran into a situation where a &#039;helper&#039; had daisy chained power for 2 of my processing racks together, both having Furman PL series &#039;&#039;power conditioners&#039;&#039; in them, so one rack&#039;s PL was plugged into the others, then that one into a quad box which was home run to the distro. I had my laptop with it&#039;s grounded PSU plugged into the daisy chained rack, but the lappy was sitting on my drive rack (3rd rack) which was plugged directly into the quad. I kept getting a tingle when i was typing on the laptop if my wrists rested on the drive rack&#039;s metal edge. Broke out the DMM and found some voltage present between the racks. After some investigation, I discovered the daisy chained racks and plugged the cascaded one directly into the quad. Problem gone. But that would indicate to me that the MOVs in one of more of the 10+ year old Furmans are leaking. Replacements will be by SurgeX. As the years have gone by, I have become pretty disenchanted with Furman. I&#039;ve seen 1st hand several of their AR series products burn up (literally) without adverse conditions present, bad experience with their ACD-100 &#039;distro&#039; and their customer service. This was just another confirmation that they make an inferior product. Greg</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Cameron, post: 16180, member: 42"] Re: New and Shocking! Definitely worth investigating. I recently ran into a situation where a 'helper' had daisy chained power for 2 of my processing racks together, both having Furman PL series ''power conditioners'' in them, so one rack's PL was plugged into the others, then that one into a quad box which was home run to the distro. I had my laptop with it's grounded PSU plugged into the daisy chained rack, but the lappy was sitting on my drive rack (3rd rack) which was plugged directly into the quad. I kept getting a tingle when i was typing on the laptop if my wrists rested on the drive rack's metal edge. Broke out the DMM and found some voltage present between the racks. After some investigation, I discovered the daisy chained racks and plugged the cascaded one directly into the quad. Problem gone. But that would indicate to me that the MOVs in one of more of the 10+ year old Furmans are leaking. Replacements will be by SurgeX. As the years have gone by, I have become pretty disenchanted with Furman. I've seen 1st hand several of their AR series products burn up (literally) without adverse conditions present, bad experience with their ACD-100 'distro' and their customer service. This was just another confirmation that they make an inferior product. Greg [/QUOTE]

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