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Review Summary For : Tripp lite power supplies
Reviews: 42MSRP: Tripp lite PR30
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Tripp lite power supplies
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VE6XX Rating: 2002-04-05
substandard Time Owned: more than 12 months.
Greetings! Interesting previous report on Tripplite supplies. Apparently the company has changed their design philosophy in the recent past. My experience with
with Tripplite power supplies, inverters, converters, etc. is that they
were designed to sell for a low price with a good profit margin. Cheaply made, inadequate component quality, electrically & quite often, mechanically noisey, poor regulation, etc. etc. The only supplies I occasioned that were worse were made by Pyramid.
I have several of their high current supplies that came to me for repair that had literally
"burned up"...they actually caught fire while operating at a fraction of their rated output.
Astron has historically built a reasonable quality supply that sold for a reasonable price.
I am not a flag waver for Astron...there are many good supplies at reasonable cost, most made in the USA or Canada.
I will purchase a Tripplite supply in the next little while, & if it is as good as the previous reporter has stated I will publish a report to that effect here.
Quite often a manufacturer realises that a product is not up to the competitions wares & redesigns & builds a new, improved product....perhaps this is the case here.
Cheers! Brian, VE6XX
KE6TLN Rating: 2002-04-05
No noise whatsoever! Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
The company that makes these is the same company I always relied on for their line filters. I used various supplies in the past and finally bought a PR-40. I am fussy on the line noise, mind you. I listen to all the bands and do a lot of one-on-one comparisons. You would think linear supplies would be quiet. Yes, most supplies have adequate filtering at their 13.8V output, but they may not, on their 120V AC line. If you have one radio tied to such a supply, it is acceptable. If you have another receiver connected to the same AC line, you would hear all the noise the power supply generates. Astron was one of these supplies. Great at its 13.8V output, and very lousy at its 120V AC input. I opened its box and found out that they did not even have a filtered 120V socket. I had to put one myself. When I got my PR-40, what a relief! No noise at its input or output. Same solid performance as their stand-alone line filters and surge protectors. About the same price, too. Why would anyone buy anything else? Well, I asked the same question to myself. The answer is, I was not informed when I bought the Astron. Now, you are. Go buy the right stuff.