I have four PS Audio components in my system & anytime there is a power glitch they all power on. I thought when I installed a P15 this would stop this from occurring. I have numerous other components in my system & none others do this.
2 poles pin, not align on the neutral, a DC leak and test your wall connection with a 5$ wall mart check plug!
Also, others will know better and could help you!
ps mine problem was a appliance connected to one of my plug in the showroom!
Sometime wall mart plug! cause the problem.
Somehow, you transfer the leak to the 15, so problem must be in the system! try connecting one source at a time, and see if it is there! Digital streamer are strange way to work, they made me discarded my Ps 4.6 preamp, that I miss, everyday when listening vinyl!
I have a p15 with 3 PSAudio units; PMG transport and 512 DAC and stellar phono and Generac whole house standby generator. It’s a crapshoot whenever there’s an outage. The 20-30 seconds it takes for the generator to kick in gives the P15 fits. Sometimes the 15 fails to recover. When it does successfully all PSA units power up fully. I’ve accepted it and act accordingly.
Same here! I have a P12 with a full stack of PS Audio gear and after a power outage all my gear connected to the P12 are powered up. It is a curiosity, but doesn’t bother me much.
Thanks guys for the responses. Like Tomhail I don’t consider this an issue but I am curious as to why this happens to PS Audio gear.
Not just PS Audio. My Schiit Aegir does the same. It has a standby button, that I guess controls a relay, whereas all my other Schiit gear have toggle switches that cut power.
Ah ha, relays. That makes sense.
I had a power outage yesterday. It took 3 attempts to get the P15 to power up successfully. All PSA units cpowered up too.
I think that happens cuz unless you turn the components off (back switch) they are in stand by mode and when the power comes back on they come back on too. This has happened to me in the past too. I’ve gotten in the habit of turning off my stuff in the summer when I’m not using them or if there are storms in the forecast.
Couple of weeks ago we had a power outage for a few hours and when it came back in it fried a Cambridge integrated that I had set up in an office system earlier that day. It sat unused for a couple of years and finally got around to setting it up and poof… luckily it’s way out of warranty and Cambridge said they can’t do nothing for me. I guess I’m the fool for not using any kind of power protection, luckily nothing in my main system was damaged.
Storm on the horizon and the gear gets disconnected from the power source. Same for any extended absence. Note power restoration by your local supplier can be as or more destructive than the storm itself. Especially if utility re-closers cycle due to tree branch contact, or raccoons, etc. A re-closer cycles up to three times, the idea being the inrush current re-energizing the effective line clears the fault. Pretty hard on most of your gear as well. Brown-outs can be the most damaging, as a high impedance fault can significantly reduce voltage while utility protective circuits do not detect and clear the fault(s). Should you believe you have a local brown-out open the main feed breaker at the local distribution panel immediately.
Great pieces of information here. I was at a friend’s house a few months ago, soon after the start of the Florida rainy season. We were listening to his Gryphon Trident II speakers (with a whole lot of commensurately expensive gear driving them) when there was suddenly a fraction of a second power interruption followed by a horrendously nasty “pop” from both speakers. Miraculously, nothing seemed to be damaged (we shut things down immediately and pulled all the plugs until we felt the power was going to be okay). When I drove home, I passed near the neighborhood a utility truck by an electrical pole that had been smashed by a pickup truck (driver looked okay). My guess is when that pole was hit, there was a momentary loss of power and that’s what we experienced at his house. How it recovered is beyond me, but the visual plus the proximity to his neighborhood was too coincidental to be unrelated.