BrickWall PW8R15AUD 15A 120V 8 outlet Surge protector - No MOV 10 year warranty

Description

Brick Wall PW8R15AUD 15A Point of Use 8 plug Surge protector Audiophile with isolated receptacle pairs
3.9" H x 8.3" W x 4.0" D
TESTED BY UL TO ONE THOUSAND SURGES OF 6000V, 3000A
We believe that a surge protection device should not fail. At the heart of our Series Mode Surge Filter is a massive inductor (photo below). This is not a sacrificial component. It will never fail. It will not degrade with use. In fact no component used in the construction of this product is sacrificial. A Brick Wall Surge Filter will never experience a surge related failure.
You do not have to take our word for it. Consider the following:
IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) states that 6000V is the largest transient that the interior of a building would experience.
IEEE defines its harshest interior surge environment as one that could experience 100 surges of 6000V, 3000A in a years time (category B3).
A new federal guideline recommends that a surge protector utilized in a harsh environment should be capable of withstanding 1000 surges of 6000V, 3000A or ten years worth of IEEE’s category B3.
UL (Underwriters Laboratories) now provides a new adjunct testing service (in addition to the 1449 safety classification) that will test to the 1000 surge, 6000V, 3000A federal protocol.
Passing such a test is a virtual guarantee that a surge protection device will never experience a surge related failure.
Early in 1996 UL applied 1000 surges (at 60 second intervals) of 6000V, 3000A to an off-the-shelf Series Mode Surge Filter.
There was no failure. There was no performance degradation. Let through voltage did not exceed 290V. Certified by UL.
You cannot do any better than this for a building interior surge suppressor.
Reliability is usually the number one parameter for selecting a surge protection device. Unfortunately most of what is available is not very reliable. Surge suppressors are notorious for failing.
INSTANTANEOUS RESPONSE TIME
The heart of our units is the inductor. This is a passive component that is in series. It does not have to 'turn- on' and it represents the only path the surge current can take to get to the load. It reacts instantaneously. Almost all other surge protection devices are in parallel. After a certain voltage threshold is reached the shunt elements create a short circuit diverting the surge current away from the load. In effect it is a switching device. Any switch, no matter how good, is going to take time to go from an opened to a closed position.
CLAMPING LEVEL 2 VOLTS ABOVE THE SINEWAVE PEAK
MOV’s are preset to clamp at certain voltage thresholds (usually around 220V). The
manufacturers walk a fine line here because too low a level and the MOV turns on more and wears out sooner. Too high a level and more unwanted current has access to the load. Even more importantly, marketing rhetoric is sacrificed. Our Series Mode device has active tracking; a 180µf electrolytic capacitor constantly tracks the sinewave peak, whatever the powerline voltage. Any rise above this reference level is immediately clamped to this level.
LET THROUGH VOLTAGE <300V
Voltage that gets by a surge suppression device to the load is called the let through voltage. The lower the let through voltage the better. The above oscilloscope trace of a Brick Wall product shows a let-through voltage of 192V for a 1200V transient. That represents an additional 20V above the sinewave peak (the sinewave peak is normally 172V). UL endurance tested the product with one thousand 6000V surges and the let through never exceeded 290V (290V is the approximate let through voltage an MOV-based device would experience at 1200V). We believe this represents the lowest let through voltage in the industry.
SLEW RATE
Slew Rate is the rate of change of voltage in volts per microsecond. The faster the slew rate the more readily the overvoltage will couple to nearby datalines. Notice the ascending slew rates of the photographed oscilloscope traces. This is representative of the voltage that 'hits' the load before clamping. A quick rise such as this can represent quite a 'jolt' to the equipment. The trace of our unit shows a negligible slew rate. Again, we believe this represents a new industry standard.
There is  a bridge circuit which adds additional filtering if  surge voltage exceeds the power wave voltage, either positive or negative.
Rest assured that sellcom.com is an authorized reseller of Brickwall products and that products purchased from us will be drop shipped direct from the factory and carry the full 10 year manufacturer warranty, The manufacturer warrants its products to be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal service conditions, including energization by means of standard 120 volt residential or business office electrical outlets, for a period of ten (10) years.
Specifications
Outlets Available
8 (6 switched, 2 unswitched)
Load Ratings
15A at 120 volts, single phase, 50-60 Hz; full load regulation 1%.
Endurance Test
1,000 surges of 6,000 volts, 3,000 amperes, SRV <400 volts, no failures, L-N (ground wire protection) mode, U.S. Gov't. Mode 1.
Limiters
Series surge reactor current limiter; cascaded, auto-tracking dual polarity voltage limiters; dual pulse inverters. Parameters optimized for switch-mode power supply protection.
Clamping Voltage Onset
172 volts nominal; 2 volts above peak line voltage (auto-tracking).
EMI/RFI Filter Response
(bi-directional, wave tracking): With 50 ohm Rg load: 3db at 5kHz; 26dB at 100kHz; 38dB at 300kHz.
Let-Through Slew Rate
5,000 volt/µs disturbance reduced to 20v/µs within AC power wave envelope, and less than 10v/µs outside the power wave envelope.
Maximum Applied Surge Pulse Joule Rating
Unlimited rating (due to surge current limiting) (8x20µs).
Maximum Applied Surge Pulse Voltage
6,000 volts (1.2 x 50µs) (Industry Standard rating).
Maximum Applied Surge Pulse Current
>100,000 amperes (unlimited due to current limiting) (8 x 20µs).
Endurance, C62.41-1991 (formerly IEEE 587) Category B3 (C1) pulses
2kv>100,000; 4kv>10,000; 6kv>1,000 (NRTL verification).
Dimensions
3.9" H x 8.3" W x 4.0" D
Weight
8 lbs.